Amid anger at occupation and what Palestinians felt was repression by Israeli authorities, two Palestinian organisations emerged that would change the region: the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) andHamas. The Oslo Accords in 1993 - negotiated between Israel and the PLO led by Yasser Ara...
Alongside the national jubilation that followed the war, children were exposed to the complex issues it had engendered: the hundreds of fatalities on the Israeli side and the condition of the refugees on the Palestinian side. Nevertheless, the meanings of the change in Israel's borders were not...
as well as of the ones in recent years, is the ongoing construction by Israel of the Israeli Settlement on the West Bank side of Jordan, a territory owned by Palestine. A blatant encroachment on Palestinian territory.To
Israel swept to victory over its Arab neighbors in the war, also known as the Third Arab-Israeli War, and took control of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye said in an official press statement that after 55 years of occupation, the...
Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, territories the Palestinian seek for their future state. Some 500,000 Jewish settlers now live in the West Bank in some 130 settlements....
establishing a Palestinian state. "I will not compromise on full Israeli security control of all territory west of the Jordan River," he said in a video address to the nation, referring to the West Bank, a territory Israel captured along with the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war. ...
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Israeli settlers stormed the Palestinian town of Turmus Ayya, in the occupied West Bank, June 21, 2023, setting fire to Palestinian homes and vehicles.Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Palestinian residents and human rights groups have long complained about Israel's inability or refusal to halt ...
an 18-year-old Palestinian during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian ...
The Israeli authorities have not given any comment on the incidents. The Masafer Yatta area near the southern West Bank city of Hebron also witnessed clashes, where Israeli soldiers used tear gas against protesters, according to Palestinian officials and eyewitnesses. ...