British PM Gordon Brown visits the West Bank
Sarah Brown, wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, is welcomed by Palestinian children during a visit to a United Nations centre on July 20, 2008 in the Aida Refugee Camp in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Brown is accompanying her husband on two-day visit to Israel and the West Bank as part of his Middle East trip. (UPI Photo/David Silverman/POOL)
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JERUSALEM, July 21 (UPI) -- West Bank settlers uprooted olive trees and stoned Palestinian vehicles and military jeeps to protest the removal of illegal outposts, army officials said.
JERUSALEM, July 20 (UPI) -- A European court will decide whether to impose taxes on Israeli goods manufactured in West Bank settlements, a report said.
JERUSALEM, July 16 (UPI) -- The Palestinian Authority shut down the West Bank bureau of al-Jazeera accusing it of incitement, media reports said.
JERUSALEM, July 14 (UPI) -- The West Bank home of one of Israel's most highly decorated officers killed in the Second Lebanon War faces demolition if the High Court rules it is illegal.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 11 (UPI) -- Disagreements within the Israeli government are preventing a plan to stop the building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, France's foreign minister says.
JERUSALEM, July 2 (UPI) -- Israel will no longer check Palestinian pedestrians or vehicles using a major West Bank checkpoint unless terror threats are received.
JERUSALEM, June 25 (UPI) -- Israel said it will refrain from deploying troops in four West Bank cities as a gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
JERUSALEM, June 8 (UPI) -- A U.S. general training Palestinian police in the West Bank said more officers are needed to prevent Hamas from gaining strength.
HEBRON, West Bank, June 7 (UPI) -- Fifty Palestinian families will receive a total of $63,000 in Israeli government compensation for damages wrought by West Bank Jewish settlers, sources say.
