Westbank rights 3272012

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West Bank settlement gets its first Israeli university

For the first time in Israel's history, a university is being created on a West Bank settlement.

Israel breaks with UN Human Rights Council over settlement inquiry

Palestinian protestors run away from tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers during clashes between Israeli soldiers and a group of Palestinian and foreign demonstrators in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah on March 23, 2012, following a protest against Palestinian land confiscation to build a Jewish settlement Hallamish nearby.

ABBAS MOMANI

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