In the afternoon of the second day we landed upon the
west bank of the river, and, leaving Snider and Thirty-six to guard Victory and the launch, Delcarte, Taylor, and I set out after game.
Scarcely had the horde of Torn passed out of sight down the east edge of the valley ere a party of richly dressed knights, coming from the south by another road along the
west bank of the river, crossed over and drew rein before the cottage of Father Claude.
Later she had been warned from this road by word that a strong British patrol had come down the
west bank of the Pangani, effected a crossing south of her, and was even then marching on the railway at Tonda.
Authority (PA) in the
West Bank led by President Mahmoud Abbas (who also
The
West Bank and Gaza lie on either side of Israel.
"Donors do need to act urgently in the face of a serious fiscal crisis facing the PA (Palestinian Authority) in the short term," Mariam Sherman, the World Bank's country director for the
West Bank and Gaza Strip, said in a statement.
NABLUS: Occupied
West Bank: Around 150 olive trees in the occupied
West Bank were cut down overnight in an attack blamed by Palestinians on Jewish settlers.
Transport Ministry spokesman Avner Ovadiah said planning has begun on an extension that would connect Gaza with the city of Ramallah, the
West Bank's center of commerce and government.
Israel is concerned that Islamist Palestinian group Hamas might manage to renew its military capacities in the
West Bank and is thus preparing for such a possibility, the Jordanian daily AD DUSTOUR reported Tuesday.
Abbas said the orders, which target
West Bank residents without proper IDs, amounted to a "provocation," following a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh.
In a statement, the army played down any notion of mass deportation, saying the orders simply amended existing Israeli regulations to assure military "judicial oversight" in the extradition of anyone "residing illegally" in the
West Bank.