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- Settlements are Jewish communities that Israel established after 1967 beyond the Green Line on land occupied in the Six-Day War. During the disengagement program in the summer of 2005, 17 Gaza Strip settlements and four settlements in northern West Bank were dismantled. Today, all settlements are in the West Bank.
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2 days ago · West Bank, area of the former British-mandated (1920–47) territory of Palestine west of the Jordan River, claimed from 1949 to 1988 as part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan but occupied from 1967 by Israel.
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The first settlements were built by Labor governments from 1968 to 1977, with the explicit objective to secure a Jewish majority in key strategic regions of the West Bank - such as the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem corridor - that was the scene of heavy fighting in several of the Arab-Israeli wars.
Mar 17, 2015 · A History Of West Bank Settlements As Morning Edition wraps up its series on the role of land and identity in the Israel-Palestine conflict, Steve Inskeep talks to Israeli author Gershom...
The mid-1990s Oslo Accords split the West Bank into three regional levels of Palestinian sovereignty, via the Palestinian National Authority (PNA): Area A (PNA), Area B (PNA and Israel), and Area C (Israel, comprising 60% of the West Bank).
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- Why is ownership of the West Bank so contested? In May 1967, not a single Israeli lived in the West Bank, a hilly region about the size of Delaware. It was home to roughly a million Palestinians, who had been living under contested Jordanian control for two decades.
- Why do Palestinians object to the Israeli settler movement? Though they are neighbors and sometimes co-workers, relations between Jews and Palestinians on the West Bank are seldom friendly.
- Why do Israelis want to live in the West Bank? Israelis choose to live in the West Bank for many reasons. The popular stereotype of Jewish settlers as religious fanatics determined to reclaim the entire ancient homeland they believe was given to Jews by God is not quite accurate.
- Are Israel’s West Bank settlements legal or not? Most legal experts and the United Nations agree that Israeli settlements in the West Bank violate international law.
The first West Bank settlement was Kfar Etzion, a Jewish community that existed prior to 1948 that Israel reestablished in 1967. The first decade of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank saw the establishment of 32 settlements, primarily in the Jordan Valley and around Jerusalem.
Half a century of settlements. Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians seek all three areas for their future state. In 56 years, Israel has built well over 100 settlements scattered across the West Bank.
