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 Leader of Terror Cell That Kidnapped and Killed Israeli Teens Indicted in Military Court
The leader of the terrorist cell that that kidnapped and killed three Israeli teenagers in June was indicted in a military court. Hussam Kawasme of Hebron was arrested on July 11, in connection with the kidnapping and murder of Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach, and dual Israeli-American citizen Naftali Fraenkel, while attempting to flee to Jordan…
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Israel News Israel Is Again Demolishing Homes of Palestinian Terror Suspects
It’s a controversial tactic that Israel once disavowed. But punitive home demolitions against Palestinians are back now, resurrected by the government in response to the apparent terrorist murders of three teenage yeshiva students in June in the occupied West Bank. As its war in Gaza against Hamas died down in August, the Israeli army destroyed…
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Fast Forward U.S. Slams Israeli Appropriation of West Bank Land
The United States on Tuesday took the unusual step of publicly criticizing Israel for plans to appropriate land in the occupied West Bank and calling for it to reverse the decision. Some 400 hectares (988 acres) in the Etzion Jewish settlement bloc near Bethlehem were declared “state land, on the instructions of the political echelon”…
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Fast Forward SodaStream Considering Closing Its West Bank Factory
The Israeli firm SodaStream, which has been a target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, is considering closing its West Bank factory. CEO Daniel Birnbaum told the Israeli economic publication The Marker that the company, which makes home soft drink machines, will make a decision in the next two months. Birnbaum said the decision…
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Fast Forward U.S. Urges Israel To Reverse Planned West Bank Land Appropriation
(Reuters) — The United States sees Israel’s announcement on Sunday of a land appropriation for possible settlement construction in the occupied West Bank as “counterproductive” to peace efforts and urges the Israeli government to reverse the decision, a State Department official said. Israel laid claim to nearly a thousand acres (400 hectares) in the Etzion…
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Fast Forward West Bank Bus Shelter Blown Up in Attempted Terror Attack
A bus shelter in the northern West Bank was blown up with explosives in what police believe was an attempted terrorist attack. Sunday morning’s explosion occurred at a bus stop located outside of the settlement of Rechalim, near the Tappuach Junction south of Nablus. An Israeli man was shot and seriously injured by a Palestinian…
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Fast Forward Israel Appropriates West Bank Land for Possible Settlement Use
Israel announced on Sunday a land appropriation in the occupied West Bank that an anti-settlement group termed the biggest in 30 years and a Palestinian official said would cause only more friction after the Gaza war. Some 400 hectares (988 acres) in the Etzion settlement bloc near Bethlehem were declared “state land, on the instructions…
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Opinion Did Hamas Get Bibi to Freeze Settlements?
Getty Images Settlements haven’t been in the news of late — and not simply because war pushed them off the media’s radar. They haven’t been in the news because since the kidnapping and murder of the three Israeli yeshiva students back in June, there hasn’t been much settlement news to report. True, already-approved settlement construction…
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