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Israel’s government has approved a large land seizure in the occupied West Bank – the biggest since the 1993 Oslo Accords set out a path for peace between Israel and the Palestinians ...
Since 21 January 2025, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has conducted a large-scale military operation, which it has titled "Iron Wall" [d], against Palestinian militants in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israel's operation initially only targeted the Jenin Brigades, a local Palestinian militia in Jenin, [29] but has spread to Tulkarm and other ...
More than 500,000 Jewish settlers live in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which was captured by Israel from Jordan in the 1967 war and is now home to 3.3 million Palestinians. Jewish settlements ...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Friday declared 800 hectares in the occupied West Bank as state land, in a move that will facilitate the use of the ground for settlement building. The ...
Israel's economy was 10 times larger than the West Bank's on the eve of the occupation but had experienced two years of recession. The West Bank's population stood between 585,500 and 803,600 and, while under Jordanian rule, accounted for 40% of Jordan's GNP, [31] with an annual growth rate of 6–8%. [32]
Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said in May that Israel should approve 10,000 settlements in the West Bank, establish a new settlement for every country that recognizes a ...
The Supreme Court of Israel has ruled that Israel is holding the West Bank under "belligerent occupation". [8] [9] However, successive Israeli governments have preferred the term "disputed territories" in the case of the West Bank, [10] [11] and Israel likewise maintains that the West Bank is disputed territory. [12]
Israel has published plans for one of its proposed new settlements in the occupied West Bank, finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Wednesday, upping the ante a day before planned new Gaza ...