West Bank

See also: Westbank

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the West Bank

  1. A Palestinian territory on the west bank of the Jordan river, claimed by both Israel and the State of Palestine.
    • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
      Smaller than Delaware, packed with 2.7 million people, the core of a proposed future Palestinian state, the occupied West Bank is partitioned by the Oslo Accords into zones of Palestinian and Israeli control.

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  • German: Westbank

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