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 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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News SodaStream May Close Controversial West Bank Factory
(Haaretz) — SodaStream will decide within two months whether to close the West Bank plant that prompted a high-profile boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against the Israel-based beverage machine maker, CEO Daniel Birnbaum said Wednesday. The Israeli beverage maker’s decision has nothing to do with the “financial terrorists” who organized the boycott, said Birnbaum. The BDS…
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Fast Forward Jewish Toddler Hurt by Rock-Throwing Palestinians
An Israeli toddler traveling in a car in the West Bank was injured by rocks thrown by masked Palestinians. Dozens of Palestinians threw “rocks and heavy furniture” at passing Israeli cars at the Yitzhar Junction in the northern West Bank on Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces told the Times of Israel. Some of the rocks…
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