Under the plan, Israel’s civilian and military administration would be dissolved and the Israeli army withdrawn from populous Palestinian areas.
NETANYAHU SAYS IF REELECTED HE'LL ANNEX PARTS OF HEBRON IN THE WEST BANK IN CONTROVERSIAL MOVE: REPORTS. In 2011, after years of stalled peace talks, the PA began lobbying for international recognition of statehood and started gaining partial recognition in 2012. Trump's push for recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights also heightened tensions between Palestinians and the U.S. Fayyad, however, failed to garner wide support among Palestinians and resigned in 2013 as the PA was facing a financial crisis. Geographically, the West Bank is mostly composed of north-south–oriented limestone hills (conventionally called the Samarian Hills north of Jerusalem and the Judaean Hills south of Jerusalem) having an average height of 2,300 to 3,000 feet (700 to 900 metres).

The Al-Aqsa TV station shares these offices.

The last Jordanian elections in which West Bank residents would vote were those of April 1967, but their parliamentary representatives would continue in office until 1988, when West Bank seats were finally abolished.

(2017) 2,881,957. The Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts from an AM station in Ramallah on 675 kHz; numerous local privately owned stations are also in operation. By 2000 the Palestinian Authority (PA) controlled less than one-fifth of the West Bank, while Israeli occupation (in some areas, combined with PA local administration) continued in the remainder.
The military authorities do not render public the details of these operations. The Mashreq region has seen more than its share of deaths, economic losses, and instability for the last decade. In November 2019, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said America no longer considers Israeli settlements to be in violation of international law and claimed the Trump administration believes they are necessary to preserve Israeli security. It is mostly used as permanent pastures (32% of arable land) and seasonal agricultural uses (40%). The overall effect was to obstruct manufacturing development and subordinate any local industrial activity to the exigencies of Israel's economy, or to block the creation of industries that might compete with Israel's. Goods were exported to Jordan, while the import was banned for security purposes. The increasingly violent power struggle between Hamas and Fatah resulted in a split between the West Bank, run by Fatah through the emergency PA government, and the Gaza Strip, controlled by Hamas.

[59] The international community regards the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) as territories occupied by Israel. [61], As of February 2020, 134 (69.4%) of the 193 member states of the United Nations have recognised the State of Palestine[62] within the Palestinian territories, which are recognized by Israel to constitute a single territorial unit,[63][64] and of which the West Bank is the core of the would-be state.[65]. Many Palestinians were displaced after the 1948 and 1967 wars. These materials consist of such things as sewage sludge, infectious medical waste, used oils, solvents, metals, electronic waste and batteries. But after its capture by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war, the West Bank has also been home to Israeli military bases and checkpoints that restrict Palestinian movement, as well nearly 430,000 Israeli settlers who live among 3 million Palestinians. The Palestinian teenager was reported in critical condition.

Through the Jerusalem Law, Israel extended its administrative control over East Jerusalem.

Driving to Artas from the Palestinian hub city of Ramallah involves crossing at least one Israeli checkpoint and bypassing several others, an approximately 50-km (30-mile) route that without restrictions would be around half the distance. or redistributed. The wall is designed to allow Palestinians to pass north–south through Israeli-held land and facilitate the building of additional Jewish settlements in the Jerusalem neighborhood. Annual rainfall of more than 27 inches (685 mm) occurs in the most highly elevated areas in the northwest and declines in the southwest and southeast, along the Dead Sea, to less than 4 inches (100 mm).