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 Leftist German Politician Backs Off Comparing West Bank and Berlin Walls
A German politician has backpedaled on remarks comparing Israel’s security fence to the Berlin Wall. Uwe Kekeritz of the Green Party in remarks made several months ago had said the Berlin Wall, which communist East Germany built in 1961 to keep its citizens from fleeing to the democratic West Germany, “is just a toy” in…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Threatens Shoot-To-Kill Crackdown on Stone-Throwers
Israel is considering giving its security forces a freer hand to shoot at young Palestinian stone-throwers, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Wednesday. Under standing orders, Israeli soldiers facing violent Palestinian protests can open fire with live bullets only in life-threatening situations. That effectively bans firing at Palestinians who flee after hurling a rock…
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Fast Forward 5 Palestinians and Soldier Wounded in West Bank Raid
Five Palestinians and an Israeli border policeman were wounded in a raid in the occupied West Bank to arrest a Hamas militant, the Israeli army and local medical officials said on Tuesday. The fate of the wanted man was not immediately clear. The army said soldiers demolished a house, in the city of Jenin, in…
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Fast Forward Israeli Man Injured in West Bank Drive-by Shooting
An Israeli citizen was injured in a shooting attack in the northern West Bank. The man, a resident of an Israeli settlement, was injured after his car was fired upon on Sunday. The drive-by shooting occurred near the West Bank settlement of Kedumim. The driver received emergency treatment there for an injury to his hand…
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Fast Forward 15% of West Bank Settlers Are Americans
Fifteen percent of West Bank settlers are American citizens. According to an Oxford University professor, approximately 60,000 American Jews live in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Haaretz reported Thursday. “This provides hard evidence that this constituency is strikingly over-represented, both within the settler population itself and within the total population of Jewish American immigrants…
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Fast Forward Reuven Rivlin Stakes Israel Claim to Rule West Bank
Israel’s right to rule the West Bank “is not a matter of political debate,” President Reuven Rivlin said. Meeting Monday with West Bank leaders, Rivlin also said that “settlement of the land of Israel” is an expression of that claim, which puts Israel on a collision course with the rest of the world and conflicts…
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Fast Forward Extremists Torch Bedouin Tent in West Bank
A tent in a West Bank Bedouin village was set on fire in a suspected arson attack. The tent in a village located north of Ramallah, which was used for storage and unoccupied at the time of the fire, was burned completely early Thursday morning, according to reports. Graffiti spray painted on a rock near…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Shot Dead After Stabbing Israeli
A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli troops after he stabbed an Israeli man at a West Bank gas station. The 26-year-old victim was slightly injured in the attack near Modiin, in central Israel, where he was filling up his car, the Israel Defense Forces said. He reportedly was attacked by a group of approximately…
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