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Take a flight over the West Bank Separation Wall with this striking drone footage, capturing its extensive concrete walls, barbed wire, and winding path through cities and countryside. Witness the ...

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He just had to get over the wall. “When we reach the ... Palestinians can earn double or triple a West Bank salary. Standing in their way is Israel’s barrier, running some 700 kilometers ...

and a 700-kilometre long barrier wall that runs mostly through the West Bank. Deakin University Middle East Studies lecturer Andrew Thomas says all of that has significantly fragmented Palestinian ...

Where the high hills of the occupied West Bank tumble into the Jordan valley ... recent security threat triggered them to build the new barrier that will almost entirely encircle Bardala and ...

where it was deployed along the security fence to target Palestinians approaching the barrier. According to Army Radio, the move to use the system in the West Bank comes despite its limited ...

The mock apology carved into the West Bank barrier played on the Queen's cypher - EIIR. The British artist Banksy has organised a "street party" in the occupied West Bank to apologise for the ...

Israel has begun demolishing a cluster of Palestinian homes it says were built illegally too close to the separation barrier in the occupied West Bank. Security forces moved in to Sur Baher ...

The Palestinian government has been carrying out a rare and lethal sweep against militants in a flashpoint West Bank city, saying it was needed to foil an imminent car-bombing and other attacks ...