News: West Bank

We have started to collect the most important news related to West Bank in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

World news related to West Bank – overview

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• May 16th 2013 – February 22nd 2013
• February 21st 2013 – December 1st 2012
• December 1st 2012 – July 3rd 2012
• June 26th 2012 – February 1st 2012
• January 19th 2012 – July 11th 2011
• July 11th 2011 – January 19th 2011
• January 18th 2011 – September 27th 2010
• September 27th 2010 – May 28th 2010
• May 26th 2010 – February 26th 2010
• February 23rd 2010 – December 13th 2009
• December 12th 2009 – September 13th 2009
• September 7th 2009 – May 28th 2009
• May 28th 2009 – March 3rd 2009
• March 2nd 2009 – October 15th 2008
• September 26th 2008 – July 14th 2008
• July 10th 2008 – January 12th 2008
• January 10th 2008 – July 27th 2007
• July 15th 2007 – March 3rd 2007
• March 1st 2007 – October 27th 2006
• October 17th 2006 – May 15th 2006
• May 14th 2006 – January 17th 2006
• January 16th 2006 – November 17th 2005

West Bank: news

Israel to authorise new settlements

Thursday, May 16th 2013, 12:28
related countries: Israel

The Israeli government has started the process of authorising four new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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Israel approves new settler homes

Thursday, May 9th 2013, 13:02
related countries: Israel

Israel has approved the construction of nearly 300 new Jewish settler homes at Beit El, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
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Israel 'curbs settlement building'

Tuesday, May 7th 2013, 22:40
related countries: Israel

Israel's PM issues an unofficial order to stop approval of new plans or tenders for Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank, a pressure group says.
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Israeli settler killed in West Bank

Tuesday, April 30th 2013, 9:42
related countries: Israel

An Israeli settler has been killed by a Palestinian, who stabbed and shot him, at a bus stop in the northern West Bank.
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Gazans barred from West Bank marathon

Thursday, April 18th 2013, 10:54
related countries: Israel
related places: Bethlehem

Israel is refusing permission for Palestinian runners from Gaza to join a marathon in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
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Israel heritage plan exposes discord over West Bank history

Monday, April 15th 2013, 23:20
related countries: Israel

Israeli heritage project exposes deep differences over West Bank
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West Bank clashes follow funeral

Thursday, April 4th 2013, 16:28
related countries: Israel

Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Hebron following the funeral of a Palestinian prisoner who died in Israeli jail.
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Two Palestinians killed in West Bank

Thursday, April 4th 2013, 10:12
related countries: Israel
related places: Tulkarm

Two Palestinians have been fatally shot by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Tulkarm, after clashes between soldiers and youths.
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Kerry to return to the Middle East

Wednesday, April 3rd 2013, 19:35
related countries: United States
related places: Jerusalem

US Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Jerusalem and the West Bank next week, but US officials say he will not present a peace plan.
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VIDEO: Has Obama changed US image abroad?

Sunday, March 24th 2013, 4:05
related countries: Israel, Jordan

President Obama has left Jordan at the end of a four-day trip that also took him on his first official visit to Israel and to meet Palestinian leaders in the occupied West Bank.
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Obama visits symbolic Mid-East sites

Friday, March 22nd 2013, 14:55
related countries: Israel, United States
related places: Bethlehem

US President Barack Obama concludes his trip to Israel and the West Bank by paying his respects to victims of the Holocaust and visiting Bethlehem.
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VIDEO: Obama urges return to peace talks

Thursday, March 21st 2013, 22:54
related countries: Israel, United States

Barack Obama has called on Israelis and Palestinians to return to peace talks, as he makes his first visit to Israel and the West Bank as US president.
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Obama urges return to peace talks

Thursday, March 21st 2013, 17:50
related countries: Israel, United States

Barack Obama urges Israelis and Palestinians to return to peace talks as he makes his first visit to Israel and the West Bank as US president.
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Obama urges end to settlement demand

Thursday, March 21st 2013, 15:40
related countries: Israel, United States

President Barack Obama urges Palestinians to drop their demands for a freeze in Israeli settlement building, as he visits the West Bank.
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VIDEO: Obama 'committed' to Palestinian state

Thursday, March 21st 2013, 12:56
related countries: United States
related places: Palestine

President Barack Obama has said on a visit to the West Bank that the US is "deeply committed" to creating a sovereign state of Palestine, while Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said the pair had had "good and useful" talks.
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VIDEO: Palestinian views on Obama visit

Thursday, March 21st 2013, 4:44
related countries: United States

Palestinians tell the BBC's Jon Donnison how they feel about the US president's visit to the West Bank.
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Funeral held for shot Palestinian

Wednesday, March 13th 2013, 16:25
related countries: Israel
related places: Hebron

A funeral is held for a Palestinian man shot dead by Israeli soldiers during clashes at a refugee camp near the West Bank city of Hebron.
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UK official flees W Bank university

Tuesday, March 5th 2013, 17:00
related countries: United Kingdom

Palestinian protesters hammer on a car carrying a top British diplomat after he is forced to cut short a visit to a West Bank university amid angry protests.
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VIDEO: Tensions as West Bank funeral held

Monday, February 25th 2013, 17:47
related countries: Israel

The funeral of a Palestinian whose death in Israeli custody on Saturday fuelled riots has been held in a village in the West Bank
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Tensions high amid West Bank funeral

Monday, February 25th 2013, 12:40
related countries: Israel
related places: Hebron

The funeral of a Palestinian who died in Israeli custody on Saturday, fuelling riots, is held in the West Bank, amid heightened tension.
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Clashes over Palestinian prisoners

Friday, February 22nd 2013, 16:12
related countries: Israel

Hundreds of Palestinians clash with Israeli forces across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, amid further protests over hunger-striking prisoners.
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