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Bank of the West was an American financial institution headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. It had more than 600 branches and offices in the Midwest and Western United States. It was founded in 1874 in San Jose, California, as the Farmers National Gold Bank of San Jose. Bank of the West was then owned by the French banking ...
Occupied Palestinian territories. Proposed since September 2024. فلسطين. Used in Gaza Strip since 1951. Used since 1985. Used in West Bank since 1950. +972 also used. The occupied Palestinian territories, also referred to as the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the Palestinian territories, consist of the West Bank (including East ...
The West Bank barrier, West Bank wall or the West Bank separation barrier, [1][2] is a separation barrier built by Israel along the Green Line and inside parts of the West Bank. Israel describes the wall as a necessary security barrier against Palestinian political violence; whereas Palestinians describe it as an element of racial segregation ...
Israeli forces raid Al Jazeera: Shut down bureau in West Bank. ... About 150 rockets, cruise missiles and UAVs were launched toward Israel, the Israeli military said in a statement, adding that ...
Israel's economy was 10 times larger than the West Bank's on the eve of the occupation but had experienced two years of recession. The West Bank's population stood between 585,500 and 803,600 and, while under Jordanian rule, accounted for 40% of Jordan's GNP, [32] with an annual growth rate of 6–8%. [33]
Since 28 August 2024, Israel has launched a large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank. [27] [28] [29]It is Israel's largest military operation in the West Bank in more than 20 years since its Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, [30] and is a significant escalation of the continual Israeli incursions into the region against Palestinian militants during the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.
In late July 2024, a significant escalation of violence [2] between the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian militants and protestors erupted in various areas in the West Bank. The unrest began after Palestinian Authority security forces encircled a Tulkarm hospital on 26 July and allegedly attempted to arrest the militant leader Abu Shujaa ...
The West Bank (Arabic: الضفة الغربية, romanized: aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; Hebrew: הַגָּדָה הַמַּעֲרָבִית, romanized: HaGadáh HaMaʽarávit), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that comprise the State of Palestine.