West Bank

...United States. But financial support from Americans, some benefiting from U.S. tax relief on charity, is a significant source of funding for West Bank settlements. A small group of Israeli peace activists staged a protest against Hikind's...

In this article: United States, Barack Obama, Jerusalem, Israel, and United Nations

...about the settlements: * Israel dismisses international findings that the communities it has been building since the 1980s in the West Bank, on land occupied by the Israeli military since 1967, constitute a violation of international...

In this article: Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama, Jerusalem, Washington, East Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv

...back on track, is willing to adopt the policy of the greatest possible restraint concerning growth in the West Bank -- but this applies to the West Bank." "Jerusalem is Israel's capital and will remain as such," he said, stating an Israeli...

In this article: Israel, Jerusalem, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, Robert Gibbs, Ban Ki-moon, Barack Obama, and East Jerusalem

...without concluding a peace agreement would lead to Israeli counter-measures that could include annexation of more of the occupied West Bank. "If the Palestinians take such a unilateral line, Israel should also consider ... passing a law...

In this article: Israel, Gilad Erdan, Security Council, Benjamin Netanyahu, U.N., Kosovo, and Tax

...Israeli army in the middle of the night late last month, asked Israel's supreme court Thursday to let her return to her studies in the West Bank. The incident highlights a deep fear among the thousands of Palestinians originally from Gaza...

In this article: Gaza, Israel, Bethlehem University, Hamas, and Gaza Strip