An additional 550 units are to be built in other settlements in the West Bank.
Israeli settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.
Next door, in the West Bank, some Palestinians are living the high life in Ramallah.
Both Israel and Abbas, whose Palestinian Authority is based in the West Bank, are opposed.
Settler extremists in the West Bank have torched Palestinian fields and attacked Palestinian cars with rocks.
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The power base for Abbas, a U.S. ally, is anchored firmly in the West Bank.
Meanwhile, Bar-Ilan is criticised for supporting a college in "an illegal settlement" in the West Bank.
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At first, Israeli police denied that stones had caused the car crash in the West Bank.
But many of Turkey's complaints, such as over settlement-building in the West Bank, are hardly controversial.
The strike follows days of clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian protesters in the West Bank.
Today, more than a quarter-million Israelis live in the West Bank, not including East Jerusalem.
In the West Bank, Israel confiscated large chunks of agricultural land where settlements were eventually built.
Obama stressed the challenges for peace posed by Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
His Fatah movement, based in the West Bank, is deeply split from Hamas, which governs Gaza.
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The only explanation is that they want to decrease the Palestinian population in the West Bank.
There are almost five hundred thousand Israelis now living amongst Palestinians in the West Bank.
Benny Gantz convened top military officials Saturday night to discuss escalating tensions in the West Bank.
He came with his brother to work in the West Bank a few months ago.
Peace talks have been stalled over construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
No objective person could personally observe existing conditions in the West Bank and dispute these statements.
Israel maintains full control over Jerusalem, unlike over Palestinian towns in the West Bank and Gaza.
Marwan Barghouti, Fatah's general secretary in the West Bank, is the name on their lips.
There are about 320, 000 people in the West Bank and 200, 000 in East Jerusalem.
At Birzeit University in the West Bank, political science students are discussing the implications.
It's still unclear why the administration has a problem with Jews living in the West Bank.
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His decisions directly affect the daily lives of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
Jewish settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
In Hebron, also in the West Bank, an entrepreneur has opened the city's first luxury hotel.
Settlements: There are 170, 000 settlers in some 145 Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.
Suicide bombings in Israel are greeted with carnival-like celebrations in the West Bank and Gaza.
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