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Since 21 January 2025, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has conducted a large-scale military operation, which it has titled "Iron Wall" [d], [34] [35] [36] against Palestinian militants in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israel's operation initially only targeted the Jenin Brigades, a local Palestinian militia in Jenin, [37] but has spread to ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. West Bank الضفة الغربية הגדה המערבית Palestinian flag Location of the West Bank within the claimed territory of the State of Palestine Status Claimed by the State of Palestine [a] Partially administered by the Palestinian National Authority in Areas A and B Under Israeli ...
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 ...
The eastern limit of the West Bank is the border with Jordan. The Israel–Jordan peace treaty defined that border as the international border, and Jordan renounced all claims to territory west of it. The border segment between Jordan and the West Bank was left undefined pending a definitive agreement on the status of the territory. [62]
Israel has carried out operations against Hamas in Gaza and its cells in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, killing its fighters. In such operations, Israel has killed many Palestinian civilians.
Israel’s top general has resigned, citing the security failures that allowed Hamas’ 7 October attack, as at least 10 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Jenin ...
Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want all three for a future state. Israel has built scores of settlements across the West Bank ...
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]