West Bank Since 1994 the West Bank has been under the control of the Palestinian Authority, the governing body of the Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. As of 2005 Palestine was not yet an independent sovereign state, although the...

The West Bank (Arabic: الضفة الغربية, aḍ-Ḍiffä l-Ġarbīyä, Hebrew: הגדה המערבית‎, Hagadah Hamaaravit), also known as "Judea and Samaria", is a landlocked territory on the west bank of the Jordan River in the Middle East....

ISRAEL is of a mind these days to react severely to the Palestinians who have been throwing rocks and some explosive devices at Israeli forces and conducting other forms of protest. In the demonstrations so far, more than 20 Palestinians have been killed. The...

George Monbiot (www. monbiot. com) reports for The Guardian where this article appeared on April 9, 2002. Two sets of human shields are in use in the West Bank. The first is less than willing. The Israeli army, like some of the terrorist...

The government on Monday published plans to build 44 homes in Israel's largest West Bank settlement, violating a pledge to the United States as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in the region on a peace-seeking mission.The Housing Ministry published ads in Israeli newspapers asking...

Israel's foreign minister pledged further withdrawals from the West Bank to facilitate creation of a Palestinian state but said in an interview published Saturday that the process was being hindered by Palestinian inability to rein in militants.Tzipi Livni, who has said she will challenge Prime...