It is particularly alarmed by the intention of the Israeli Government to expand large settlement blocks in the West Bank, which would separate East Jerusalem from the West Bank and the southern West Bank from its northern part.

C. Jordan's waiver of claims to the West Bank territories

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Three settlements Beitar Illit west of Bethlehem, Tal Zion near Ramallah and Modi'in Illit west of Ramallah were the fastest growing in the West Bank.

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Similar steps must be taken in all parts of the West Bank.

The Allenby bridge remained the only international crossing for West Bank Palestinians.

The next challenge is to address the situation in the West Bank.

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However, further progress is necessary, in particular the opening of the Gaza airport and seaport and freedom of movement both between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and within the West Bank.

Its effective length will be twice the length of the 1949 contours of the West Bank, since a major part intrudes into the West Bank to a depth of 22 kilometres in some areas.

Stating that the West Bank checkpoints were sources of humiliation was also partial.

The Gaza initiative must be followed by similar steps in the West Bank.

Settler planning zones had absorbed 41.9 per cent of land in the West Bank.

The Committee noted that settlement construction and expansion in the West Bank continued apace.

Secondly, Israel still maintains 200 settlements in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem.

We welcome Israel's withdrawal from settlements in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

Israel has also continued and accelerated construction of its barrier in the West Bank.

The decision to extend the wall to the settlement at Ariel, about 22 km into the West Bank, meant that about 16 percent of the West Bank would end up between the wall and the Green Line.

The evacuation of approximately 8,500 Gaza Strip and West Bank settlers had been completed by 23 August the Israeli military withdrew from the Gaza Strip on 12 September and from the four West Bank settlements on 20 September.

We remain extremely concerned about the continued construction of Israel's barrier in the West Bank.

The Israeli army also conducted large scale search and arrest operations in the West Bank.

It must be followed by withdrawal from the West Bank to pre September 2000 positions.

We observe with concern the division of the territory of the West Bank as a result of the construction of the barrier, continued settlement expansion and the increasing isolation of East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank.

Israel does not recognize a distinction between Hamas planned attacks from the West Bank and from Gaza. However, a large scale Israeli assault on Hamas s Gaza redoubt in response to the West Bank killings could bring the negotiations to a halt.

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At the same time, there were attempts to cut off East Jerusalem from the West Bank.

We also welcome the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.

Unresolved issues included that of Israeli settlements and the separation wall in the occupied West Bank.

The immediate trigger for the current conflict was the murder of three Jewish teenagers in Hebron, on the West Bank. Israel, blaming Hamas, arrested hundreds of its members in the West Bank, though it has never explained the basis of its accusation.

Palestinian leaders who are seeking election on a platform of peaceful negotiation with Israel, but also efforts to achieve a viable two State solution, with a contiguous West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and meaningful linkages between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

They are, first, border crossings and trade corridors secondly, connecting Gaza with the West Bank thirdly, movement within the West Bank fourthly, the Gaza airport and seaport fifthly, the houses in Israeli settlements and sixthly, the greenhouses and dairy industry in the settlements.

The West African Regional Transit Facilitation Programme was being implemented with the support of the World Bank.

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The Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the northern West Bank marks an important landmark in Israeli Palestinian relations.

The State of Israel took a bold move by disengaging from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank.

The Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and parts of the northern West Bank does, indeed, constitute an important milestone.

In general, there is greater dependence on external aid in the Gaza Strip than in the West Bank.

The electoral dynamics both in Israel and in Gaza and the West Bank may also create positive momentum.

Israeli forces have continued to operate in the West Bank city and have arrested large numbers of Palestinians.

Colonists removed from Gaza would simply be relocated to settlements in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.

Since the Oslo Accords of 1993, which envisaged a Palestinian state on the West Bank and in Gaza, facts on the ground have whittled down the putative Palestinian state still further. Part of the West Bank has been annexed outright by Israel or seized by Israeli settlers.

The resistance in Budrus has since spread to villages across the West Bank and to Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem.

The Secretariat continues to welcome and support the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and parts of the northern West Bank.