It is on the west bank of the Nile River,opposite Luxor.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

The Spanish Foreign Minister later traveled to the West Bank city of Ramallah for meetings with the Palestinian leadership.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Speaking to Fatah members in the West Bank town of Ramallah, President Abbas took his own swipe at Hamas.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

U.S.officials have put pressure on the Israeli government to halt construction of settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

He repeated that condemnation in the presence of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a visit to the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Current construction of 2,500 homes in the West Bank will continue along with 455 additional new housing units approved this week.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Mitchell's schedule on Monday included shuttling to the West Bank town of Ramallah for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

Mr.Obama called for the creation of a Palestinian state and condemned Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.05.29

Mr.Obama has lost popularity in Israel because of American pressure to halt Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Hani al-Masri heads the Palestine Media, Research,and Studies Center, research organization in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Under the Israeli offer, construction of 3,000 Jewish homes in the West Bank would continue, but no new projects would be approved.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

Palestinians see the West Bank settlements, home to about 300,000 Israelis, as an obstacle to the creation of a future Palestinian state.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Residents of the West Bank settlement of Kedumim threw eggs at inspectors and clashed with police who came to enforce the construction freeze.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

The U.S.official faced large hurdles this week, with all sides far apart on the key issue of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Palestinians want east Jerusalem to be the capital of a future state they hope to establish in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Construction of 3,000 homes in the West Bank will continue, but no new projects will be approved.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Chanie Luz lives in the West Bank settlement of Bethel near the Palestinian-ruled city of Ramallah.

VOA: standard.2009.05.29

U.S.envoy George Mitchell met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

(Speaking) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated the army for gunning down three Palestinian militants on Saturday in the West Bank town of Nablus.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

But instead of accepting the proposed halt in settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian leaders rejected the peace offering, as "nothing new".

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

Furthermore,Mr.Netanyahu has said he supports the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank - a source of enormous tension between Israelis and Palestinians.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

Some 80 percent of the waters of the Mountain Aquifer go to Israel and only 20 percent go to Palestinians in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

On Friday,his schedule includes meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

Dozens of jeeps carrying masked Israeli commandos rolled into the West Bank town of Nablus before dawn and surrounded the homes of three Palestinian gunmen.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

But the Mahmouds, like many other Palestinian families in the West Bank do not have access to much of the water in the ground beneath them.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

some of that money will also go into humanitarian efforts in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Giving women hope for the future is one of the goals of the station, Nisaa FM,which started broadcasting this month from the West Bank town of Ramallah.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Libyan Ambassador Ali Aujali agreed, but said the Arab world is waiting for some concrete policy changes, especially in regard to Israel's continued expansion of settlements in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

President Obama,in his speech to the Muslim world in June, called for Israel to stop settlement expansion in the West Bank and allow for the establishment of a Palestinian State.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18