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 Israel Downgrading Military Operation to Recover Kidnapped Teens
Israel’s Cabinet agreed to reduce the presence of the country’s military in the West Bank and limit its incursions into Palestinian areas 12 days after the kidnapping of three Israeli teens. The operation to locate and return the teens, called Operation Brother’s Keeper, now will focus more on intelligence gathering, Haaretz reported. “A large part…
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News Kidnapping of Teens Jangles Nerves in Usually Calm West Bank Settlement
(JTA) — At a shopping center in the middle of Efrat, families eat pizza, a deliveryman unloads a cart and a barista serves coffee. On a passing bus, a banner reads “Gush Etzion – an Israeli home.” In many respects it’s a normal, quiet Monday in this settlement that has grown into a large commuter…
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Fast Forward Israel Scales Back Crackdown Amid Growing Anger
Israel scaled back a search for three missing teenagers in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday after 11 days of operations raised fears of a general uprising and undermined Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Israel has accused Abbas’s political rivals, the Islamist group Hamas, of orchestrating the abduction of the Jewish youths on June 12. It…
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Fast Forward Kidnapped Teen’s Mother Tells U.N. Council of ‘Nightmare’
The mother of kidnapped Israeli teen Naftali Frenkel told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva that every boy and girl deserves to come home to their families. “It is wrong to take children – innocent boys and girls – and use them as instruments in any struggle,” Rachel Frenkel told the council on…
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Fast Forward Why Does Israel Pour Billions Into West Bank Jewish Settlements?
(Reuters) — Israeli lawmakers are pressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to lift what they call unjustified secrecy over opaque – and rising – funding for settlements on West Bank land Palestinians want for a state. Unpublished official data reviewed by Reuters suggests state spending on settlers rose by a third after Netanyahu took office in…
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Fast Forward Israel Detains 37 Palestinians in KIdnap Push
Israel’s army said it detained another 37 Palestinians overnight as it searched for three missing teenagers and extended a crackdown on the Hamas Islamist group it accuses of kidnapping them. There were no reports of clashes between the soldiers and Palestinians in the raids in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where the military says it has…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Slams Presbyterians for Israel Divestment
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) vote to divest from three companies that do business with Israeli West Bank security forces. Netanyahu, speaking Sunday to Jewish journalists from around the world at the inaugural Jewish Media Summit in Jerusalem, said the vote late Friday to divest from Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions and…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu: Israel Has ‘Unequivocal Proof’ Hamas Responsible for Kidnappings
Israel has “unequivocal proof” that Hamas is responsible for the kidnapping of three Israeli teens more than a week ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet. The proof and information have been shared by Israel with several countries and soon it will be made public, Netanyahu said Sunday at the start of the weekly…
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