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The West Bank (Arabic: الضفة الغربية, romanized: aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; Hebrew: הַגָּדָה הַמַּעֲרָבִית, romanized: HaGadáh HaMaʽarávit), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that comprise the State of Palestine.
Palestinian Authority forces stormed the Al-Razi hospital and arrested a man said to be a Jenin Brigades militant, marking the first ever time that PA forces have participated in an Israeli raid in the West Bank. [8] In Burqin, near Jenin, Israeli forces killed two militants that had carried out an attack against Israelis earlier in the month. [41]
Israel has occupied the Palestinian territories (the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) since 1967. After decades of conflict, the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority was created in 1994 following the agreements of the Oslo Accords between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel. Under the agreements, the PA was allowed to exercise ...
The West Bank closure system is a series of obstacles including permanent and partially staffed checkpoints, concrete roadblocks and barriers, metal gates, earth mounds, tunnels, trenches, and an elaborate set of permit restrictions that controls and restricts Palestinian freedom of movement. [1]
A variety of local Palestinian militias have been formed in the West Bank to fight against Israel, which has occupied the region since 1967.These militias have taken on primarily defensive roles, engaging the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during its raids into the West Bank's Palestinian enclaves, while also occasionally conducting offensive operations against Israeli military outposts ...
The occupied Palestinian territories, also referred to as the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the Palestinian territories, consist of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip—two regions of the former British Mandate for Palestine that have been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the Gaza war and the Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present) West Bank Palestinian enclaves (Areas A & B) West Bank under Israeli control (Area C) Israeli-annexed Jerusalem / East Jerusalem See here ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Operation Summer Camps מבצע מחנות קיץ Part of the Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war and the Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present) The West Bank in 2024, with the Palestinian enclaves in green and the Israeli settlements in light blue Date 28 August ...