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The West Bank has a land area of about 5,640 square kilometres (2,180 square miles). It has an estimated population of 2,747,943 Palestinians, and over 670,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank, of which approximately 220,000 live in East Jerusalem. The West Bank, so called due to its relation to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two ...
During the Israel–Hamas war, Israeli forces have carried out multiple ground incursions, occasionally accompanied by airstrikes, into several Palestinian cities and refugee camps in the West Bank, including Jenin and Tulkarm. [36] The Israeli incursions have led to clashes with Palestinian militants. Over 200 Palestinians have been killed by ...
502,991 Israeli Jews (Jan. 2,023); [1] 180,000−300,000 Palestinians (Area C of the West Bank) [2] The Judea and Samaria Area ( Hebrew: אֵזוֹר יְהוּדָה וְשׁוֹמְרוֹן, romanized : Ezor Yehuda VeShomron; [a] Arabic: يهودا والسامرة, romanized : Yahūda wa-s-Sāmara) is an administrative division administered ...
The Palestinian enclaves are areas in the West Bank designated for Palestinians under a variety of unsuccessful U.S. and Israeli-led proposals to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. [1] The enclaves are often compared to the nominally self-governing black homelands created in apartheid -era South Africa, [a] and are thus referred to as ...
Westbank, an area of the New Orleans metropolitan area; refers to the west side of the Mississippi River. Westbank Expressway, a portion of U.S. Route 90 Business in this area. West Bank, an area of the University of Minnesota. West Bank station, a light rail station serving the West Bank campus. Cedar-Riverside, referred to as West Bank, an ...
West Bank and Gaza Strip may refer to: West Bank and Gaza Strip, two areas in the middle east. Palestinian territories, generally A,B and C areas within West Bank and Gaza Strip under control of the Palestinian Authority. State of Palestine, a partially recognized de jure sovereign UN observer state, de facto occupied by Israel.
In mid-1950, Jordan formally annexed the West Bank and Jericho residents, like other residents of West Bank localities became Jordanian citizens. In 1961, the population of Jericho was 10,166, of whom 935 were Christian, and the rest were Muslim. 1967 and aftermath
