dedicated to project assistance for the
West Bank and Gaza through U.S.
Guy Inbar, an Israeli military spokesman, confirmed on Tuesday that Israel has granted
West Bank residency to Assaf, his sister, brother-in-law and the couple's three children.
A hike in taxes in early September caused by economic accords with Israel that peg Palestinian sales tax to high Israeli rates sparked demonstrations in
West Bank cities and calls for the government to resign.
About 45 percent of farmland in the
West Bank and the Gaza Strip is given over to olive cultivation, with approximately 10 million trees.
The IDF official revealed that the army is drafting a plan by which IDF soldiers can enter all Palestinian areas in the
West Bank without fearing for their lives, such as areas in Jenin, Ramallah, and Bethlehem.
On April 13, the Cairo-based Arab League called on the Palestinians to refuse to heed the amended orders from the Israeli military that could trigger the
West Bank deportations.
Ten Israeli rights groups condemned the orders, saying in a statement that the vast majority of Palestinians in the
West Bank, territory Israel occupied in a 1967 war, have never been required to hold an Israeli-issued residency permit.
The Israeli military said Meir Avshalom Hai, a 40-year-old father of seven, died when his car came under fire in the occupied
West Bank on Thursday night, either from a passing car or a roadside ambush, near the city of Nablus.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said that Cache Valley Bank of Logan, Utah has assumed all of America
West Bank's deposits.
These days, the
West Bank is dominated by Fatah, which has controlled Palestinian politics since the early 1960s, while Gaza has become the stronghold of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas after crushing Fatah forces there in several months of internecine violence.
They live in orderly government-planned suburbs north and east of Jerusalem; in more isolated, far-flung towns surrounded by barbed wire and heavily-guarded highways; in small, fortified enclaves in and near the ancient biblical cities of the
West Bank. These settlements are filled with the second and even third generations of those early post-war pioneers, who would have told that U.S.