Israeli security forces arrested 28 Palestinian terror suspects, 11 of them affiliated with terror group Hamas, in a raid of the West Bank on Tuesday, the IDF, Shin Bet, and Border Police said in a joint statement. The IDF also mapped the home of the 16-year-old terrorist who carried ou...
Jordan, then in possession of Judea and Samaria, attacked Israel from these biblical mountains and Israel responded, liberating the area from Jordan’s rule in just 4 days. The settlement movement, whose goal is to settle these newly regained areas, grew from Biblical convictions. The people of...
In the south, Russian forcesattacked a villagearound 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Kherson that had previously been recaptured by Ukrainian troops in mid-March. The Russian forces werepartially successful. April 6, 2022 In the north, according to the ISW and the governor of Sumy, Russian...
Ramallah, town in the West Bank, adjacent to the town of Al-Bīrah (east) and north of Jerusalem. Administered as part of the British mandate of Palestine (1920–48), Ramallah was part of the West Bank territory taken by Arab forces in the first of the A
was to be handed over in 1996. This agreement also split the West Bank and the Gaza Strip into three types of territory: areas under Palestinian administration and security (“Area A”), areas under Palestinian administration but joint Israeli-Palestinian security (“Area B”), and areas under...
of the collapse of the peace process, Israel unilaterallywithdrewfrom thesettlementsit had constructed in the Gaza Strip after 1967, and in 2007, after factional conflict within thePalestinian Authority(PA), Hamas emerged as thede factoruler in the Gaza Strip. The takeover by Hamas prompted a ...
Annual rainfall of more than 27 inches (685 mm) occurs in the most highly elevated areas in the northwest and declines in the southwest and southeast, along the Dead Sea, to less than 4 inches (100 mm). Widely variable land-use patterns are dictated by the availability of water. Relativel...
In the southeast the Jewish quarter represents the newest and most modern part of the Old City. It stands in contrast to the run-down dwellings located there in the early 20th century, when resources devoted to developing Jewish neighborhoods were increasingly concentrated on areas outside the cit...
AdenThe old quarter of Aden, Yemen. Yemen Print Also known as: ʿAdan Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that con...
Houthi rebels and opposing tribal militants both capitalized on the distress to grow their respective bases of support. In southern areas, dissatisfaction led to a resurgence of secessionist sentiment. The secessionists boycotted a 2013 constitutional dialogue, which was intended to create a government...