{"slug": "west-bank", "label": "West Bank", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36678", "qid": "Q36678", "description": "Palestinian territory on the western bank of the Jordan River, occupied by Israel", "entries": 16, "years": 14, "span": [1949, 2023], "span_label": ["1949 CE", "2023 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 4}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 3}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "gaza-strip", "label": "Gaza Strip", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "israel-defense-forces", "label": "Israel Defense Forces", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "benjamin-netanyahu", "label": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jordan", "label": "Jordan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bethlehem", "label": "Bethlehem", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "palestinians", "label": "Palestinians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "yasser-arafat", "label": "Yasser Arafat", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1949, "year_label": "1949 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 2", "text": "2 November – 2,000 Bedouin expelled from the Beersheba area to West Bank.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1337273886#Israeli–Palestinian_conflict", "title": "1949 in Israel", "revid": 1337273886, "section": "Events › Israeli–Palestinian conflict"}}, {"year": 1952, "year_label": "1952 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "January 6", "text": "6 January – 1952 Beit Jala Raid: an attack committed by an unknown Israeli party who blew up several houses in the West Bank town Beit Jala, killing between six and seven Palestinian-Arabs, including two children. According to leaflets distributed in the scene of the crime, the attack was carried out in retaliation for the rape and murder of a Jewish girl on 4 December 1951. Israel denied involvement in what it called \"this sad affair\", and voted to condemn the raid.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358744988#Israeli–Palestinian_conflict", "title": "1952 in Israel", "revid": 1358744988, "section": "Events › Israeli–Palestinian conflict"}}, {"year": 1956, "year_label": "1956 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 25", "text": "25 September – Operation Lulav (מבצע לולב): Following the murder of the participants in an archaeological conference held in Ramat Rachel and the murder of two farmers from Moshav Aminadav and Kibbutz Maoz Haim, IDF forces raid the police fort at Husan, near Bethlehem, in the West Bank (then under the control of Jordan). Thirty-seven Legionnaires and National Guardsmen were killed as well as two civilians. Nine IDF members were also killed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1317066097#Israeli–Palestinian_conflict", "title": "1956 in Israel", "revid": 1317066097, "section": "Events › Israeli–Palestinian conflict"}}, {"year": 1966, "year_label": "1966 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "November 11", "text": "November 11 – A mine kills three Israeli paratroopers on the West Bank border.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370246126#November", "title": "1966", "revid": 1370246126, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1975, "year_label": "1975 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The founding of the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adummim.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1314998351#Unknown_dates", "title": "1975 in Israel", "revid": 1314998351, "section": "Events › Unknown dates"}}, {"year": 1986, "year_label": "1986 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "March 14", "text": "14 March: The body of Sergeant David Manos, an Israeli soldier who disappeared in Israel in late 1984, is discovered in the West Bank. Four Palestinians from Deir Ballut would later be charged with his kidnapping and murder.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345055679#March", "title": "1986 in Palestine", "revid": 1345055679, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1987, "year_label": "1987 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 8", "text": "December 8 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372769014#December", "title": "1987", "revid": 1372769014, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1988, "year_label": "1988 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 30", "text": "October 30 – Jericho bus firebombing: Five Israelis are killed and five wounded in a Palestinian attack in the West Bank.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373532411#October", "title": "1988", "revid": 1373532411, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1994, "year_label": "1994 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 25", "text": "February 25 – Israeli Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank; he kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369917016#February", "title": "1994", "revid": 1369917016, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1994, "year_label": "1994 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 25", "text": "25 February – Cave of the Patriarchs massacre: Israeli Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs, Hebron, in the West Bank; he kills 29 Muslims.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360408381#Events", "title": "1994 in Palestine", "revid": 1360408381, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1996, "year_label": "1996 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The founding of the West Bank settlement of Modi'in Illit.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357086926#Unknown_dates", "title": "1996 in Israel", "revid": 1357086926, "section": "Events › Unknown dates"}}, {"year": 1996, "year_label": "1996 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "September 24", "text": "24 September – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorize the opening of an exit in the Arab Quarter of Jerusalem for the Western Wall Tunnel, which prior Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres had instructed to be put on hold for the sake of peace. This sparked violent riots throughout the West Bank and northern Gaza Strip. Over the subsequent three days, 16 Israeli soldiers and about 60 Palestinians were killed in the riots.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356984848#Events", "title": "1996 in Palestine", "revid": 1356984848, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1997, "year_label": "1997 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 19", "text": "January 19 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years, and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city. (→ Hebron Agreement)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367978156#January", "title": "1997", "revid": 1367978156, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 2002, "year_label": "2002 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 29", "text": "March 29 – In response to increasingly common attacks by Palestinian militants, Israeli initiates Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale counter-terrorism operation in the West Bank.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372652846#March", "title": "2002", "revid": 1372652846, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 2003, "year_label": "2003 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 26", "text": "September 26 – A Palestinian Arab gunman enters a home in Negohot, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank near Hebron, and murders seven-month-old Shaked Avraham and 27-year-old Eyal Yeberbaum, and wounds both of the baby girl's parents as they are celebrating the Jewish New Year. The gunman is later killed by Israeli security forces. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for the attack.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311388016#Israeli–Palestinian_conflict", "title": "2003 in Palestine", "revid": 1311388016, "section": "Events › Israeli–Palestinian conflict"}}, {"year": 2023, "year_label": "2023 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 3", "text": "July 3 – In the largest incursion by Israel into the West Bank since the Second Intifada, the Israeli military deploys ground forces and armed drones into the Jenin camp, killing 13 people and injuring more than 100. An attack claimed by Hamas as retaliation for the incursion, occurs in Tel Aviv the following day, injuring nine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372811827#July", "title": "2023", "revid": 1372811827, "section": "Events › July"}}]}