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This is not internationally recognised. For this reason, Israeli maps do not show East Jerusalem a part of the occupied West Bank. The Old City, located in East Jerusalem, is home to some of the ...
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 Residents in the West Bank have long complained that missing and outdated data on ...
Languages: English and Farsi 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 ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has faced wide condemnation after showing a map that excluded the occupied West Bank in a news briefing on Monday. The Israeli prime minister appeared ...
The Republican House Foreign Affairs Committee chair instructed GOP staff to refer to the West Bank by its biblical name, Judea and Samaria. The term is still used by Israel’s government to ...
For years, a glance at a map of the West Bank would have yielded few clues to ... “Now, if settlers try to take a hill, the army will protect them, then the state will give them electricity ...
A map showing the area of Gush Etzion Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, in relation to Jerusalem. A map showing the area of Gush Etzion Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank ...
Aseel Baidoun, a staffer for the NGO Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), based in Ramallah, said: “Living in the West Bank today feels like being trapped in an open-air prison.” Baidoun’s ...
A Wired investigation found that Google Maps can be near impossible to use in the West Bank, especially since the start of the war. Users told the publication that the navigation app would direct ...
JORDAN VALLEY, West Bank — Mansour Arara, 24, sits in the shade of a tree with a group of friends next to the Al-Auja freshwater spring. His young nephew and a friend jump and splash in the cool ...
JENIN, West Bank — 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 ...