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Protesters using slingshots throw rocks at Israeli forces as Israeli forces intervene a protest against yesterday's bombing of Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Ramallah, West Bank on October 18, 2023.Strip, they only operate in an underground capacity in the West Bank, as the area is controlled by another rival group.Where is the West Bank and who lives there?
Israel pushed back, and ended up expanding beyond the territory announced by the UN’s partition plan for the area, which was meant to divide the land into a Jewish state, and Arab state, and Jerusalem as a separate entity. Israel was keen to keep hold of the land because of the number of Israeli settlements. Jordan only renounced administrative responsibility for the West Bank in 1988.
In 2006 parliamentary elections, the Palestinian group Fatah, lost to Hamas, amid speculation that it was corrupt. Fatah was installed as the dominant force in an emergency cabinet – while over in Gaza, Hamas removed all Fatah officials.Other nations started to provide economic and diplomatic support for the Fatah-run West Bank, while boycotting Hamas’ Gaza.Even so, violence in the West Bank is growing. The Israel Defence Forces started to raid the West Bank following a spate of attacks only last year.
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