One reason is that the boundary between sovereign Israel and occupied territory doesn’t appear on official maps. For Palestinian residents of the West Bank ... to a strange political twist ...

The map below, illustrating the spread of Israeli ... the population of Israeli settlements in the West Bank grew almost 25 percent between 2009 -- when current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad about the leadership of and divisions within Palestinian political factions. Political leadership in Israel ...

This policy brief addresses these issues, providing a historical consideration of Palestinian women’s political participation and then examining the reasons behind their de-politicization with a ...

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, at least eleven Palestinians, including six former political prisoners, from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank. In Bethlehem, ...

Instead, she is talked into joining a staging of “Hamlet” in the West Bank, a decision that leads to both a quest for political knowledge and a painful awakening. Hammad’s elegantly ...

HEBRON, West Bank, Oct 13 (Reuters ... Abbas has condemned violence against civilians and said the PA would pursue political action to achieve its goals. Statements by his Fatah party have ...

STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: Omar Razzaz is a longtime Jordanian political figure ... If you look at a map, you'll see that Jordan touches the occupied West Bank, which is called that because it is ...

Political leadership in Israel ... So Hamas operates primarily in Gaza while the Palestinian Authority governs the West Bank. But at this moment, how much support does Hamas have among ...