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Even though the Israelis partly withdrew from the West Bank as
part of the peace process, they are always liable to re-enter to restore order and
establish security for the Jewish settlers still living there, or at least set up
roadblocks and effectively cut off Palestinian communications.
As many Palestinians work as labourers in Israel, this hurts their
pocket.
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The Palestinian Territories of the West Bank and Gaza are still
very much an appendix of Israel.
The British drove the Ottoman Turks out of Palestine in 1917, and
sowed the seeds of the Palestinian problem.
Under the British mandate of Palestine, 1922 to 1948, Jews came to
settle in what they considered their homeland.
They mainly chose to make their homes along the Mediterranean coast,
in Jerusalem itself, or around the Galilee region. The local Palestinian Arabs were also
growing in numbers along the west bank of the River Jordan.
The Arabs rejected the Partition Plan, and attacked Israel following her declaration of independence, on May 15, 1948.
Jordan occupied the West Bank and East
Jerusalem, and King Abdullah later merged all of Arab-held Palestine with Trans-Jordan,
despite strong opposition from other Arab League members, and granted citizenship to West
Bank residents.
In 1967, war broke out between Israel and her neighbours, Egypt and
Syria. Jordan also entered the arena on the third day of the war.
Three days later it was all over. Israel had defeated the combined
armies and took control of the Golan Heights from Syria, the Sinai
Peninsula and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, and all of the
West Bank from Jordan.
The River Jordan connects the Dead Sea with Lake Tiberius, or the Sea
of Galilee, and a trip north from Jerusalem to Tiberius is often done along the Jordan.
Palestine
Center:
An independent think-tank committed to communicating reliable and timely information about
the Palestinian political experience to American policy-makers, journalists, students and
the general public.
Travel Palestine:
The official site for tourism in Palestine presents the only place in the world considered
Holy to Christians, Muslims and Jews.
Weather in West Bank
View a graphical weather forecast for the week ahead in places around
the West Bank.
Bethlehem
Weather, Hebron
Weather, Nabulus
Weather, Qalandiyah
Weather, Ramallah
Weather.
The Palestinians claim East Jerusalem (Al-Quds) as their capital;
the Mosque is behind the Western Wall.
It is also within the old city that you find most of the budget
accommodation.
Map
of East Jerusalem:
Well, two maps really; one showing the Old City of Jerusalem in 1850 and the other between
1968-1994. The maps are colour-coded to illustrate the holy sites and how the Israeli
section has grown, along with the Arab houses seized between 1975 and 1990.
Perishable goods can be flown out of the territory to
international markets, even when the Israelis set up roadblocks.
Gaza International Airport:
(GZA)
The Palestinian airport became operational in November 1998 and is located at Rafah, in
southern Gaza Strip. The opening of the Yasser Arafat International Airport, in the Gaza
Strip, gave the Palestinians a greater sense of independence, even though Israel controls
Gaza's airspace and Israeli security forces close the airport on occasion.
Palestinian
Airlines:
The small Palestinian Airlines fleet operates on 8 routes to Jordan,
Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.
Cheap flights are also scheduled between Gaza and Morocco.
Israel continues to monitor the security arrangements.
The next step is the safe corridor that connects Gaza Strip with the
West Bank.
Map
of Gaza:
A basic map of the Gaza Strip showing the location of major towns.
Although tourists don't often go to Hebron, Nabulus, or Ramallah,
both Bethlehem and Jericho are in the West Bank.
Nabulus
Nablus is the site of Jacob’s Well, where Jesus met the Samaritan
woman who offered him a drink of water and believed in him.
Al Yasmeen Hotel:
One of the first unique tourism investment projects, between Nablus Municipality and the
privately owned Yasmeen Investment Company, aimed at revitalising and upgrading the
tourism sector in Nablus. Shame about the music.
Massada is famous for its hill top fortress near the Dead Sea;
where visitors to the region can also float in the saline waters, or take a mud bath on
its shores.
Towering 430 metres above the Dead Sea, Massada (Hebrew for fortress)
is a boat-shaped, craggy mountain. Upon it one of the greatest epics in the history of
mankind was played out.
Hotels of Palestine:
Where to stay in Bethlehem, Gaza, Jerusalem, Nablus and Ramallah.
Travel
to The West Bank:
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