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	West Bank and Gaza Strip: Save the Children
		Save the Children is one of the largest U.S. nongovernmental organizations working in the West Bank and Gaza addressing the immediate humanitarian and long-term development needs of children and adults.
		Children and their families living in the West Bank and Gaza are among the Middle East's most marginalized populations.
		In the West Bank and Gaza, Save the Children implements programs in the areas of education, economic opportunities and psychosocial health.
	www.savethechildren.org /countries/middle-east-eurasia/west-bank-and-gaza-strip.html (919 words)

	Travel Advice for Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
		Australians intending to travel to Israel, the Gaza Strip or the West Bank for shorter periods are at much lower risk of infection but should discuss the risk of avian influenza with their doctor as part of their routine pre-travel health checks.
		Australian travellers and long-term residents in Israel, the Gaza Strip or the West Bank should be prepared to take personal responsibility for their own safety and well-being, including deciding when to leave an affected area and ensuring they have appropriate contingency plans in place.
		Australians in Israel, the Gaza Strip or the West Bank should monitor the travel advice and bulletin for updated information and advice, and ensure that their travel documents, including passports and visas for any non-Australian family members, are up to date in case they need to depart at short notice.
	www.smartraveller.gov.au /zw-cgi/view/Advice/Israel_Gaza_Strip_and_West_Bank (2994 words)

	Palestine ina century
		One major consequence of the 1948 War was that a whole segment of the rural highland of central Palestine (which became known as the West Bank) became isolated from its cultivable land, coastal markets, and metropolitan centers as the State of Israel was founded on the fertile coastal plains.
		Tension between the Israeli occupation army and the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip grew and finally erupted in December of 1987.
		The Interim agreements have divided the lands of the West Bank into three classifications: areas A, B, and C. The Israeli military withdrew from lands classified as area A, and complete autonomy over administrative and security issues was assumed by the Palestinian Authority.
	www.poica.org /pal-in-a-century/pal-in-century.php (1662 words)

	Gaza - Wikitravel
		Gaza (Arabic غزة, Ghazzah, Hebrew עזה 'Azza) is a Palestinian enclave in the Middle East.
		The Gaza Strip is a narrow, 40-km long slice of land between the Mediterranean to the west and the Negev desert to the east.
		Gaza City refers to the town itself, in the northern part of the strip, but due to huge population growth the City now sprawls into many of the surrounding villages and it's a tough task to say what is a part of the City and what isn't.
	www.wikitravel.org /article/Gaza_Strip?PHPSESSID=3c4ab63923a9807f8f544be8699692e6 (1790 words)

	"A Gaza-West Bank Split?" (July 2001)
		In the West Bank, the Nashishibi, Huseini, Ja'abari and Masri families are among the dominant political elite.
		West Bank dialects are similar to the Jordanian dialect, while influences of Egyptian dialect are heard throughout Gaza.
		In the West Bank, only 27 percent of the population are refugees, as opposed to the 64 percent that inhabit the Gaza Strip.
	www.meib.org /articles/0107_me2.htm (1785 words)

	Israel, the West Bank and Gaza
		Travel to the Gaza Strip by U.S. Government personnel is prohibited.
		The Department of State strongly recommends that private American citizens not travel to the Gaza Strip.
		U.S. citizens is extremely limited, particularly in the Gaza Strip.
	travel.state.gov /travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_922.html (1058 words)

	Online NewsHour: As the Demolition of Settlements Begins, Analysts Discuss Gaza's Future -- August 19, 2005
		Another crucial issue is how Gaza will be linked economically to the West Bank, and Israelis and Palestinians are still negotiating the potential for a passage of some kind, a safe passage, as it's often called, between the West Bank and Gaza, so that they can function as they should, as one economy.
		In order for the Gaza Strip to survive, in order for it to be a viable economic unit, as the World Bank said in a report just a few months ago, it's going to need to have a working seaport.
		Number two, I think that what we need to see is a settlement freeze in the West Bank so that Palestinians have confidence that the road map is actually going to be implemented and that their political future is not going to be limited to just the Gaza Strip.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec05/gaza_8-19.html (1891 words)

	USATODAY.com - Israel expels two West Bank Palestinians to Gaza Strip (Site not responding. Last check: )
		GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel expelled two Palestinians from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday — an unprecedented step the military hailed as a powerful deterrent against suicide bombings and human rights groups condemned as a violation of international law.
		On May 10, 26 Palestinian militants were expelled from the West Bank town of Bethlehem to the Gaza Strip at the end of a 39-day Israeli siege of the Church of the Nativity.
		Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Mideast war, and maintained full control over the territories until the mid-1990s, when it withdrew from major Palestinian population centers as part of interim peace deals.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002-09-04-palestinian-expulsions_x.htm (1071 words)

	Palestinian State (proposed): History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		In the Gaza Strip, administered by Egypt from 1948–1967, poverty and unemployment were high, and most of the Palestinians lived in refugee camps.
		In turn, Israel was to hold on to large blocks of land in the West Bank and reject the “right of return” for Palestinian refugees.
		Gaza, which has the world's highest population density, gained 25% more land and plans on replacing the settlers' single-family houses with apartment buildings to alleviate a severe housing shortage.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0776421.html (2298 words)

	USATODAY.com - Striking teachers shut down schools across West Bank and Gaza (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the West Bank, activists from the rival Fatah party stood in front of schools, urging teachers and students to comply with the strike call, at times shooting in the air.
		But compliance was widespread in major West Bank cities, though some teachers taught high school seniors, reluctant to disrupt their critical final year.
		In Gaza, and in Hamas strongholds in the West Bank like Hebron, many teachers opposed the strike, but complied with it because they were outnumbered by colleagues loyal to Fatah who were hired during that party's decade-long rule of the Palestinian Authority.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-09-02-teachers-gaza-strike_x.htm?csp=34 (1053 words)

	EuropeAid - The Mediterranean and Middle-East - West Bank and Gaza Strip
		EuropeAid - The Mediterranean and Middle-East - West Bank and Gaza Strip
		The MEDA programme is the main financial instrument through which the EU implements the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership initiated at the Barcelona Conference in November 1995.
		The volume of EIB lending to West Bank/Gaza during the period 1995-2002 amounted to 230 million, intended among others for small and medium scale ventures, power and water supply, and waste treatment.
	ec.europa.eu /europeaid/projects/med/bilateral/w_b_gaza_en.htm (1015 words)

	West Bank and Gaza Maps - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online
		Gaza Strip July 1999 original scale 1:150,000 (364K) Orthophoto map
		Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Closures and Requisitioned Land in January 1994 (339K)
		Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Jewish Land Use on Israeli-Controlled Land in October 1993 (235K)
	www.lib.utexas.edu /maps/gazastrip.html (335 words)

	"Occupied Territories or Disputed Territories?"
		Jordan's 1950 annexation of the West Bank was recognized only by Great Britain and Pakistan and rejected by the vast majority of the international community, including the Arab states.
		The last international legal allocation of territory that includes those strategic zones of what is today the West Bank and Gaza Strip occurred with the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine which recognized Jewish national rights in the whole of the Mandated territory.
		Describing the West Bank and Gaza Strip as "occupied Palestinian territories" is incorrect and misleading.
	www.jcpa.org /art/brief1-1.htm (914 words)

	Foundation for Middle East Peace :: Statistics
		Population in Israel and West Bank Settlements, 1995-2005
		Israeli Settler Population in the West Bank, 1972-2004
		Territorial Division of the West Bank According to the Wye Memorandum
	www.fmep.org /settlement_info/statistics.html (442 words)

	This Week in Palestine - Week 24 - International Middle East Media Center - IMEMC
		Clashes between Fatah and Hamas loyalists moved to the West Bank, but were not as intense as reported in the coastal region.
		During the week, Israeli troops carried out 25 military invasions into Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, broke into dozens of houses and constructions, killed three Palestinians, among them one child, injured at least seven and kidnapped another 21 civilians, raising the number of residents abducted since the beginning of the year to 1358.
		The Israeli army continued to attack the Gaza strip this week and five children were killed by Israeli tank fire in the southern part of the region.
	www.imemc.org /article/49114 (2264 words)

	Forgotten facts about the West Bank and Gaza Strip - Likud of Holland (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As the West Bank and Gaza Strip were not under the legitimate and recognized sovereignty of any state prior to the Six Day War, they should not be considered occupied territories.
		During the 1990s, Israel and the Palestinians agreed that the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip is not yet resolved and should be decided in peaceful negotiations.
		The disputed status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, combined with the refusal of the Palestinians to sign peace agreements with Israel that would define the final borders, means that the precise status of the territories has yet to be determined.
	www.likud.nl /govern76.html (5181 words)

	West Bank and Gaza Strip
		In the 9th Century BCE, Samaria (in the northern West Bank) was the capital of the Israelite Kingdom.
		From that time until partition, the West Bank and Gaza Strip were occupied by the Romans, the Ottomans and the British.
		The Gaza Strip, and particularly the West Bank, are rich in archeological remains of centuries of Jewish communal life.
	www.adl.org /israel/advocacy/glossary/west_bank_gaza_strip.asp (471 words)

	The future of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
		The economy of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, know as the OccupiedTerritories, is under severe strain.
		Above all, the economy of the West Bank and Gaza is likely to remain mainly service-oriented, with an important contribution by tourism.
		Bank staff developed some scenarios to explore the possible trajectory of the economy.
	www.worldbank.org /html/dec/Publications/Briefs/DB32.html (953 words)

	Arafat OK's West Bank, Gaza elections - The Boston Globe
		RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinian Authority decided yesterday to hold its first local elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, bowing to pressure to end chaos and corruption plaguing many Palestinian towns.
		Sharon has been pushing for a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements, charging that he does not have a Palestinian partner, because the Palestinian Authority is not cracking down on violent groups responsible for deadly attacks against Israelis.
		Municipal elections were last held in the West Bank in 1976, under Israeli military rule, and there hasn't been a local vote in Gaza in more than four decades.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2004/05/11/arafat_oks_west_bank_gaza_elections?mode=PF (708 words)

	Eyewitness reports: West Bank and Gaza Strip - Palestine Monitor (Site not responding. Last check: )
		WE recently returned from the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza where we volunteered with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).
		One typical example of such biased coverage was a Vancouver Sun article on April 11, entitled "Gaza is proof of the problems peace faces", in which columnist Stuart Bell quotes the bravado of angry young men in Gaza as "proof" that Palestinians don't want peace.
		Bell fails to mention the Israeli Army violence that provoked their anger: 12 Palestinian civilians killed in the Gaza Strip in the previous week, including four children, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.
	www.palestinemonitor.org /eyewitness/Gaza/Our_humanity_in_the_balance.html (1396 words)

	newsroom: press releases: Survey Finds High Rates of Malnutrition and Anemia in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
		The preliminary rates are particularly high in Gaza with the survey showing 13.2 percent of children suffering from acute malnutrition, putting them on par with children in countries such as Nigeria and Chad.
		Survey respondents indicated that shortages in Gaza were primarily due to border closures that seal the Gaza Strip off from Egypt, Israel and the West Bank.
		In the West Bank, survey respondents said food shortages were caused by a combination of road closures, checkpoints, curfews and military conflict.
	www.care.org /newsroom/articles/2002/08/08082002_gaza.asp (650 words)

	USAID WB/G - REPORTS
		Many reports are published each year on issues related to life in the West Bank and Gaza.
		An eight-month study of higher education institutions in the West Bank and Gaza and what is needed to keep them viable and strong.
		Included are GIS coverage maps of West Bank health care facilities.
	www.usaid.gov /wbg/reports_1.htm (295 words)

	Palestine - Palestinian territories of Gaza Strip and the West Bank
		Palestine - Palestinian territories of Gaza Strip and the West Bank
		Under the DOP, Israel agreed to transfer certain powers and responsibilities to the Palestinian Authority, which includes the Palestinian Legislative Council elected in January 1996, as part of the interim self-governing arrangements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
		An intifadah broke out in September 2000; the resulting widespread violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel's military response, and instability in the Palestinian Authority are undermining progress toward a permanent settlement.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/palestine.htm (1001 words)

	Gaza Strip & West Bank
		Gaza Strip is located along the coast of the eastern Mediteranean Sea and stretches over a distrance of approximately 45 km from Beit Hanoun in the north, to Rafah City in the South.
		Agriculture is the most important economic sector in the Gaza Strip.
		Together, with parts of the West Bank, it is mostly run by the Palestinian authority.
	www.providence.edu /polisci/students/mideast_water/gaza_1.htm (540 words)

	Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip
		The two sides view the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as a single territorial unit, the integrity and status of which will be preserved during the interim period.
		Palestinians from abroad whose entry into the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is approved pursuant to this Agreement, and to whom the provisions of this Article are applicable, will not be prosecuted for offenses committed prior to September 13, 1993.
		The two Parties view the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as a single territorial unit, the integrity and status of which will be preserved during the interim period.
	www.soas.ac.uk /Centres/IslamicLaw/AIIA.html (5346 words)

	Israeli Settlement Activity and Land Confiscation in West Bank and Gaza Strip
		By the end of February 2000, 7,120 new Israeli housing units were in various stages of construction in the West Bank, excluding East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip – enough to increase the settler population by 30,000.
		IDF checkpoint is moved to the Mevo Horon settlement, in the West Bank.
		Tenders are published for two new roads in the West Bank – one connecting the settlements of Shaked and Katzir, another connecting Kiryat Arba and Ramat Mimra.
	galton.uchicago.edu /~amit/MIDE/Update_Settlement_20Activity.html (2482 words)

	CIA Factbook: Gaza
		Direct negotiations to determine the permanent status of Gaza and West Bank that began in September 1999 after a three-year hiatus, were derailed by a second intifadah that broke out in September 2000.
		Including West Bank, the UN estimates that more than 100,000 Palestinians out of the 125,000 who used to work in Israel, in Israeli settlements, or in joint industrial zones have lost their jobs.
		International aid of $2 billion in 2001-02 to the West Bank and Gaza Strip prevented the complete collapse of the economy and allowed Finance Minister Salam FAYYAD to implement several financial and economic reforms.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Peace/ciagaza.html (1038 words)

	Israel to limit strikes in West Bank, Gaza - The Boston Globe
		The decision followed the deployment of Palestinian police yesterday in the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip to deter militants who have frequently fired rockets and mortars at Israeli communities.
		Israeli officials said other measures, including a timetable for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from West Bank towns, would be discussed at a summit between Abbas and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, expected to be held next week.
		His endeavor to end the armed uprising is opposed mainly -- though not solely -- by Hamas, an Islamic opposition group that has ventured in the past month into the political arena for the first time, sponsoring local candidate slates in a series of municipal elections.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/01/29/israel_to_limit_strikes_in_west_bank_gaza?mode=PF (853 words)

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