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NEWS ABOUT: West Bank

West Bank stories: 85 news summaries

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(Newser) - An ax-wielding Palestinian went on a rampage in a Jewish West Bank settlement today, killing an Israeli teenager and wounding a young boy before fleeing the area, the AP reports. Security guards shot and wounded the assailant before he could escape, and police are now hunting for him. More »

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(Newser) - Hillary Clinton met separately with the Palestinian president and prime minister in the West Bank today, after sitting down with Israeli leaders yesterday, and announcing the appointment of two senior envoys to Syria. Palestinian leaders implored Clinton to push for a freeze on expanding Israeli West Bank settlements, and open... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Israel • Syria • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Fatah • secretary of State • United States • West Bank • Israel and Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • Obama administration

Clinton Heads to Mideast, Europe and Russia

Egypt, Israel and Europe all on the itinerary

Feb 28, 09 8:28 AM CST
(AP) - Hillary Clinton is using her second overseas trip as the nation's top diplomat to assess peace prospects in the Middle East, reconnect with European allies, and discuss America's strained relationship with Moscow with her Russian counterpart. Clinton will begin the weeklong journey in Egypt, where she'll attend an international conference... More »

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Russia • Hillary Clinton • Israel • Middle East • Europe • State Department • Egypt • West Bank • Obama administration • two-state solution

analysis

 Hamas Support 
 Grows in West Bank 

Palestinians call for tougher stance from president

Jan 6, 09 10:38 AM CST
(Newser) - As violence continues in Gaza, support for Hamas is growing in the Fatah-controlled West Bank, the New York Times reports. Though demonstrations of solidarity with Hamas have thus far been relatively small, West Bank residents see Gaza as “part of themselves,” writes Steven Erlanger. Still, there’s little... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Hamas • Fatah • West Bank • Israeli offensive

Bloomberg Forced to Take Cover in Israel

Missile alert sends NYC mayor scrambling in search of shelter

Jan 4, 09 7:56 PM CST
(AP) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg had to take a break from expressing solidarity with Israelis threatened by Hamas rockets today after a missile warning sent him and his party scurrying into a bomb shelter. The daylong trip to Israel that included visits to two towns targeted by the Islamic militant... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • West Bank • Michael Bloomberg • Arab Israeli conflict

Soldiers Drag Jewish Settlers From Disputed Hebron Building

Palestinian home attacked in revenge

Dec 4, 08 10:54 AM CST
(Newser) - Dozens of masked Jewish settlers vandalized a Palestinian house in Hebron today, just after Israeli soldiers dragged 250 Jewish settlers out of another disputed building, Haaretz reports. The move against the settlers was the first forced eviction in the West Bank in two years. Twenty-five people were injured in the... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Israel • West Bank • Israel and Palestinians • eviction • Arab Israeli conflict • settlers • Jewish settlers

 Olmert: Israel Must 
 Leave West Bank 

Nation must relinquish land for lasting peace, says exiting PM

Sep 29, 08 7:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Israel must give up nearly all the land it seized in 1967 to forge peace with the Palestinians, said outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The nation must relinquish most of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights—or compensate the Palestinians and Syrians with Israeli territory, said... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • West Bank • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinians • Golan Heights • East Jerusalem

Radical Settlers Fight Palestine —and Israel

Bomb attack against professor shows new right-wing militancy

Sep 26, 08 10:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - A pipe bomb exploded Wednesday night outside the Jerusalem home of a dovish Israeli professor—where authorities also found fliers promising a $300,000 reward to anyone who killed members of a leftist advocacy group. The attack is the latest sign that right-wing settlers are resorting to extremist tactics to... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Palestine • West Bank • Israel and Palestinians • settlers

Olmert Proposes New West Bank, Gaza Borders

Abbas rejects plan, which doesn't include contiguous Palestine

Aug 12, 08 11:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ehud Olmert has presented Mahmoud Abbas with a plan to withdraw from most of the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip once the Palestinian Authority retakes Gaza from Hamas. The centerpiece of the proposal is a new permanent border that would keep 7% of the West Bank in... More »

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Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah • West Bank • Israel and Palestinians • border dispute • Palestinian statehood

Global Leaders Slam Israel's West Bank Expansion Plan

Officials say move would trample peace deals

Jul 25, 08 9:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israeli plans to build a new West Bank settlement—one that was shelved after strenuous objections from the US in 2006—were revived yesterday, sparking an international outcry, the Washington Post reports. “They're burying the Annapolis process,” said a Palestinian negotiator, referring to agreements made at the Bush-led... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Palestine • West Bank • expansion • Annapolis summit • Arab Israeli conflict • road map • Palestinian statehood

 Israeli Soldier Shoots
 Prisoner on Tape 

Blindfolded Palestinian demonstrator hit with rubber bullet

Jul 21, 08 9:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Israeli soldier was arrested today after a human rights group released a tape showing him shooting a handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian protester with a rubber bullet, YNetNews reports. The Israeli Defense Force questioned the man shortly after the incident, which was reported by an officer at the scene, but... More »

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Israel • West Bank • protests • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinians • videotape • human rights activists • Israeli Army

Obama to Meet With Abbas
During Mideast Swing

Dem to meet Palestinian president in Ramallah

Jul 14, 08 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama will visit Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank next week, a top Palestinian official said today. The Ramallah meeting with the president of the Palestinian Authority will happen on July 23, CNN reports. Details on the international trip have been guarded, but the Times of London says Obama... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • Barack Obama • Israel • Jordan • Chuck Hagel • London • Germany • Mahmoud Abbas • France • West Bank • Jack Reed

Rockets Hit Israel, Olmert Ends Ceasefire

Islamic Jihad militants call Gaza Strip attack revenge for raid

Jun 24, 08 9:48 AM CDT
(AP) - Police say three Palestinian rockets have hit southern Israel and Ehud Olmert's office says the ceasefire that took effect last week has been broken. Islamic Jihad militants in the Gaza Strip say they carried out the attack to avenge an Israeli military raid that killed one of their fighters in... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Gaza • Palestine • West Bank • truce • rockets

Abbas Calls for Renewed Talks With Hamas

About-face signals frustration with Bush-led peace talks

Jun 5, 08 5:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas offered an unexpected olive branch to Hamas yesterday, reports the New York Times. Abbas, in control of only the West Bank since the Islamic militant group seized Gaza last year, said it was time for national unity talks aimed at forming a new government. The move... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Hamas • Fatah • West Bank • Palestinians • peace talks • Mideast peace talks

 Al-Qaeda Calls for Gaza War 

Message from Osama's deputy urges attack on 'treacherous regimes'

Jun 5, 08 3:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden's deputy has called on Muslims to launch a  holy war to break Israel's economic blockade of Gaza, reports AP. The call was issued in an 11-minute al-Qaeda audiotape by Ayman al-Zawahri, marking the anniversary of the loss of Gaza, the West Bank and the Golan Heights in... More »

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terrorism • Gaza • Palestine • jihad • Hamas • West Bank • Osama bin Laden • Islamic extremism • al-Qaeda • Gaza blockade • Islamic terrorism • Ayman al-Zawahiri

OPINION

Radical Steps Needed to Break Israel Impasse

Involving Jordan would be key move in new pragmatism: Friedman

Jun 4, 08 3:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - The distance to a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians grows longer by the day, Thomas Friedman laments in the New York Times, and involving Jordan is the best bet. He calls for “radical pragmatism” as “energetic as the extremism that it hopes to nullify.” Giving... More »

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Jordan • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Hamas • West Bank • Thomas Friedman • Arab Israeli conflict

Palestinians Stand to Benefit in Blair Deal

Israel to dismantle some barriers to trade, travel in West Bank

May 13, 08 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tony Blair announced an economic deal today between Israel and the Palestinians aimed at boosting business in the West Bank, the Times of London reports. The agreement, the first brokered by the former British PM in his role as Middle East peace envoy, will see Israel remove four military checkpoints... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Israel • Tony Blair • Middle East • Palestine • West Bank • Jenin

 Israel Celebrates, Reflects at 60 

'Yes, there are flaws ... but behind the flaws a wonderful country is hidden,' speaker says

May 7, 08 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands gathered across Israel today for the nation’s 60th Independence Day celebration, the Jerusalem Post reports. At one ceremony, lawmaker Dalia Itzik first remembered the 22,437 Israelis killed in conflict since 1860. "Friends, you are not, and you will never be alone. We will never be able... More »

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Israel • Palestine • Hezbollah • independence • West Bank • Israel and Palestinians • holiday

 Hamas Pitches Deal
 for Gaza 'Calm'  

Offer to Israel, through Egypt, also provides for eventual truce in West Bank

Apr 24, 08 2:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Meeting with Egyptian authorities, Hamas leaders today proposed a truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip and, eventually, the West Bank, Reuters reports. A Palestinian source said the group agreed to "a calm” in Gaza and, after a “specified period,” in the West Bank. The deal, supported... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • West Bank • truce • Arab Israeli conflict • peace deal

 Carter Meets 
 With Hamas Chief 

Ex-president draws widespread criticism for talks with Palestinian group

Apr 18, 08 1:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jimmy Carter met today with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal despite protests from the US State Department and the Israeli government. A Hamas deputy told the AP the agenda would include strategies to calm tensions between Israel and Hamas, as well as the fate of a kidnapped Israeli soldier. Carter has... More »

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Israel • Jimmy Carter • Gaza • Hamas • State Department • West Bank • Israel and Palestinians • Khaled Meshaal • terrorist groups

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