The West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, covers a land area of 5,655sq km (2,183sq miles), making it about 15 times larger than the Gaza Strip, spread over 365sq km (141sq miles).

Area: 22,000 sq km. Population: 9.5m. Prime minister: Binyamin Netanyahu.

One user told WIRED that Google Maps directed them to “drive right into a wall that’s been up since 2003.” Residents in the West Bank have long complained that missing and outdated data on ...

Israeli tanks have been deployed to the occupied West Bank for the first time in two decades and Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad accused Israel of attempting to annex the territory by force.

A map showing the area of Gush Etzion Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, in relation to Jerusalem. Google Maps/ Newsweek. As of May 2024, the 143 U.N. member countries voted in favor ...

Netanyahu shows a map without the West Bank, which Israel has occupied for 57 years. Israel plans to destroy all of Palestine and force Palestinians into Gaza, a shrinking concentration camp. This ...

I srael has controlled entry and exit points to the West Bank since capturing the territory in the 1967 war. Checkpoints and barriers increased after the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada ...

Israeli tanks moved into the occupied West Bank on Sunday for the first time in decades in what Palestinian authorities called a “dangerous escalation,” after the defense minister said troops ...

Palestinians hope both territories will one day be part of a nation-state. Israel has occupied the Gaza Strip and West Bank since its victory in the Six-Day War in 1967. Palestinians hope that one ...

After over a year of war, the economy in the occupied West Bank is being choked off by restrictions on Palestinians’ movements in the territory, the cancellation of work permits in Israel and ...