Is West Bank Part Of Israel. For many Jews, this is wonderful news in theory: the West Bank was the heartland of the ancient Jewish state. The solid section around the Palestinian.
Summary Israel's largest banks are providing services that help support, maintain, and expand unlawful settlements by financing their construction in the occupied West Bank, including partnering with developers to build homes on land unlawfully seized from Palestinians. It forms the larger half of the semi-autonomous Palestinian Territories, the smaller being the Gaza Strip. While it has become commonplace to refer to Israel's control of areas it seized during the Six-Day War as an "occupation," and one of questionable legality, Avi Bell and Eugene Kontorovich argue that, according to a widely accepted principle of international law, Israel's claims to the territory are wholly.
Part of the West Bank is claimed to be part of Palestine.
Palestinians demand the area, along with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, for a future state.
The United Kingdom refuses to support an annexation of parts of the West Bank by Israel as it would complicate the achievement of a two-state solution, junior Foreign Office minister James Cleverly told parliament on Monday. The use of Israeli public buses in the West Bank (also known as "settlement buses") and in Israel, other than the East Jerusalem The Government of Israel tightly controls checkpoint crossings within the West Bank and to the Gaza Strip. To the west, north, and south, the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel.