Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now said on Thursday that the government wants to give retroactive approval to four West Bank settlement outposts it had previously pledged to at least partially...
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30 Apr 2013
An Israeli settler was killed on Tuesday by a knife-wielding Palestinian in a stabbing attack at a bus stop in the northern West Bank, Israel police said.
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27 Feb 2013
Thousands thronged the West Bank village of Sair on Monday for the funeral of Arafat Jaradat, a 30-year-old father of two and member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades after his death at the weekend...
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25 Feb 2013
A senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gave no indication the Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in the occupied West Bank, would issue any call for calm, and blamed Israel...
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13 Jan 2013
Palestinian protesters who pitched tents at a strategic West Bank site to protest plans to build a Jewish housing project there were evicted early Sunday, police said.
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9 Dec 2012
Having spun the line that European governments had misunderstood Israel's plan to create a settlement that would cut the West Bank in two and separate it from East Jerusalem, the prime minister's...
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Supporters of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party were yesterday claiming victory ahead of the results of the West Bank local elections, in the first such vote since 2006.
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Vandals set fire to the doors of a Christian monastery in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday and daubed pro-settler graffiti on its walls in a possible retaliation for the eviction of...
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The major Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank are easily recognisable by their grey army pillboxes. But the Israeli barrier to the development of a telecommunications industry in the Palestinian...
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