This is the Forward’s coverage of the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel and a focus of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Fast Forward Palestinian Cop Shot Dead After Shooting 3 Israeli Soldiers
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian Authority police officer opened fire on Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, wounding three, before being shot dead by a soldier. One soldier was in serious condition following the attack Sunday near Beit El, another was in moderate to serious condition and another was lightly injured, according to reports. The Israeli…
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News U.S. Labeling Rules Already Bar ‘Made in Israel’ Tag for West Bank
In his winery nestled in the rocky red hills of the central West Bank, Amichai Lourie prepares a shipment of award-winning vintage destined for the American market. On the labels, which carry Laurie’s signature, the winery clearly states that the product is “Made in Israel.” In fact, Lourie’s wine comes from territory occupied, but never…
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Fast Forward Israeli Woman, 23, Dead After Palestinian Stab Attack at Market
One of the women seriously injured in a stabbing attack at a West Bank supermarket has died. Shlomit Krigman, 23, died of her injuries early on Tuesday morning. Krigman, who grew up in Shadmot Mehola located in the Beit She’an Valley, had been in the Beit Horon settlement, located between Jerusalem and Modiin, on Monday…
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Fast Forward 2 Palestinians Shot Dead After Stabbing 2 Israeli Women
JERUSALEM — Two Palestinians were shot dead after stabbing two Israeli women on Monday in the West Bank, police said, in an emerging pattern of assaults inside Jewish settlements in the occupied territory. One of the women was in critical condition and the other sustained moderate wounds after the attack in Beit Horon, a settlement…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Will Let Booted Hebron Settlers Return To West Bank Homes
JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would allow Jewish settlers evicted by the Israeli army from two houses in the West Bank city of Hebron to return once proper permits were in place. Israeli settlements in occupied territory, deemed illegal by most countries, are a fundamental issue in the stalled Israeli-Palestinian…
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Fast Forward 13-Year-Old Palestinian Girl Shot Dead After Stabbing
A 13-year-old Palestinian girl was shot dead by an Israeli security guard she tried to stab at a settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Israeli police said on Saturday. It was the latest fatality in an almost four-month-long surge of violence that has raised concern of wider escalation, a decade after the last Palestinian uprising…
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Fast Forward Is Palestinian Model City Sugar-Coating the Israeli Occupation?
RAWABI, West Bank (JTA) — Bashar Masri is not your typical billionaire real estate developer. Born in the Palestinian city of Nablus in 1961, as a teenager Masri was apprehended and jailed by Israel eight times for throwing rocks and organizing demonstrations, the first time when he was 14. During the first intifada, he served…
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Fast Forward Israel Seizes Palestinian Land — Thumbs Nose at Europe by Destroying Aid Structures
Israel confirmed on Thursday it was planning to appropriate a large tract of fertile land in the occupied West Bank, close to Jordan, a move likely to exacerbate tensions with Western allies and already drawing international condemnation. In an email sent to Reuters, COGAT, a unit of Israel’s Defence Ministry, said the political decision to…
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