* 2005 – Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.

Plans were also made for a new retractable-roof ballpark, Bank One Ballpark, nicknamed the BOB, ( renamed in 2005 to Chase Field ) to be built in an industrial / warehouse district on the southeast edge of downtown Phoenix, one block from the Suns ' America West Arena ( now US Airways Center ).

The Central Bank of the West African States ( BCEAO ) reports that about 41 microfinance institutions ( MFIs ) operate in the country, serving a total of 800, 000 customers.

Bethlehem ( or, lit " House of Meat ";,,, lit " House of Bread ;", Vithleém ) is a city located in the central West Bank and approximately south of Jerusalem, with a population of about 30, 000 people.

Jordan retained control of the city until the Six-Day War in 1967, when Bethlehem was occupied by Israel, along with the rest of the West Bank.

On December 21, 1995, Israeli troops withdrew from Bethlehem, and three days later the city came under the complete administration and military control of the Palestinian National Authority in conformance with the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1995.

In June 2009, the US National Public Radio ( NPR ), relying on information obtained from the CIA World Factbook, put the number of Israeli Jews living in settlements in the West Bank and Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem at 250, 000.

In 1991 the DFLP split, with a minority faction led by Yasser Abd Rabbo ( who had become increasingly close to Yasser Arafat ) favouring the Madrid negotiations that led initially to limited Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Essentially the Damascus-headquartered DFLP under Hawatmeh was able to retain its external branches, whereas the majority of the organization within Palestine, mainly on the West Bank, was taken over by FIDA.

The Dead Sea (,,, " Sea of Salt ", also,, " The Sea of Death "), also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, hundreds of religious documents dated between 150 BCE and 70 CE were found in caves near the ancient settlement of Qumran, about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea ( presently in the West Bank ).

The world's lowest road, Highway 90, runs along the Israeli and West Bank shores of the Dead Sea at below sea level.

File: Deadsea_sign_diagram_jordan. jpg | Located in Jordan, this sign diagrams the topography of Jordan, the West Bank, Israel, and the Mediterranean Sea.

* 1987 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

West of The Village, Downtown contains the two tallest buildings in the Quad Cities: the Wells Fargo Bank Building, which is 255 feet tall, and the Mid-American Energy Building, which is 220 feet tall.

* 2004 – A gang of thieves steal £ 26. 5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, one of the largest bank robberies in UK history.

In 1960, Frank Drake conducted the first search for radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia.

On April 6, 1972 the Egyptian government severed relations in protest for a Jordanian plan for federation with the West Bank, which didn't take PLO interests unto considerations.

* 1994 – Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.

However, the Hamas legislative victory led to a split between the two main Palestinian political parties, with Fatah retaining control of the Palestinian National Authority in the West Bank.

Fatah's internal conflicts have also, due to the creation of the Palestinian Authority, merged with the turf wars between different PA security services, e. g., a longstanding rivalry between the West Bank ( Jibril Rajoub ) and Gaza ( Muhammad Dahlan ) branches of the powerful Preventive Security Service.

The younger generations of Fatah, especially within the militant al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades, have been more prone to splits, and a number of lesser networks in Gaza and the West Bank have established themselves as either independent organizations or joined Hamas.

The Sixth General Assembly of the Fatah Movement, nearly 16 years after the Oslo Conference and 20 years since the last Fatah convention began on 4 August 2009, in Bethlehem, West Bank after being repeatedly postponed over conflicts ranging from who would be represented, to what venue would be acceptable.

Some 400 Fatah members from the Gaza Strip were unable to attend the conference in Bethlehem after Hamas barred them from traveling to the West Bank.

* West Bank

A little further west, a narrow road closely lined with high walls, Shore Road, leads down to the West Sands and the Harbour.

A narrow definition would take in roughly the same area as the modern states of Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jordan, while a wider definition would include Syria.

The Jordan Valley, lying in the lee of high ground on the West Bank, forms a narrow climatic zone that annually receives up to of rain in the northern reaches ; rain dwindles to less than at the head of the Dead Sea.

West Bengal's narrow Siliguri Corridor or Chicken's Neck separate Nepal and Bangladesh.

Part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, the majority of the metropolitan area of Perth is located on the Swan Coastal Plain, a narrow strip between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp, a low coastal escarpment.

** Twenty-three men and thirty-one women escape to West Berlin through a narrow tunnel under the Berlin Wall.

More recently freight traffic has returned with the carriage of aggregates from Denham to West Drayton in barges and narrow boats, and the opening of a new wharf for re-cyclables and aggregates at Old Oak Common.

The terra Australis is therefore the southernmost of all other lands, directly beneath the antarctic circle ; extending beyond the tropic of Capricorn to the West, it ends almost at the equator itself, and separated by a narrow strait lies on the East opposite to New Guinea, only known so far by a few shores because after one voyage and another that route has been given up and unless sailors are forced and driven by stress of winds it is seldom visited.

The main street, Carroll Avenue, and the main state highway, Route 410 / East West Highway, narrow to two lanes within city limits.

Liverpool supporters were allocated the North and West ends ( Leppings Lane ), holding 24, 256 fans, accessed by 23 turnstiles from a narrow concourse.

The narrow, westernmost stretch of the current Houston Street, from Sixth Avenue to the West Side Highway, was known as " Hammersley Street " ( also spelled " Hamersly Street ") until the middle 19th century and was inside Greenwich Village.

West of these hills is a narrow, wet coastal plain located between the cities of Chittagong in the north and Cox's Bazar in the south.

Benin, a narrow, key-shaped, north-south strip of land in West Africa, lies between the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer.

Canada: Named for the tall ridges, narrow valleys, and sharp peaks of this part of the county, the main waterway is the East Fork of the Tuckasegee River which flows into the River Township before joining the West Fork, becoming the Tuckasegee River.

The South Devon Railway was completed in 1849, extending the broad gauge to Plymouth, whence the Cornwall Railway took it over the Royal Albert Bridge and into Cornwall in 1859 and, in 1867, it reached over the West Cornwall Railway which originally had been laid with the standard gauge or " narrow gauge " as it was known at the time.

The FV was originally Irish gauge but in 1892 it merged with the narrow gauge West Donegal Railway ( WD ) to form the Donegal Railway and was reduced to the same narrow gauge for through running.

This consists of first, a narrow stretch of land lying east of I-59 and second, of an irregularly-shaped extension into West Hattiesburg.

However some traffic continued into the 1980s and beyond including over 2 million tonnes of aggregate carried on the Grand Union ( River Soar ) from 1976 to 1996, latterly using wide beam barges however, and aggregate currently carried by narrow boats ( and wide barges ) between Denham and West Drayton on the Grand Union Canal.

A lone surviving structure that dates from the time this area was open farmland and suburban villas is the carriage house ( pre-1800 ) that once belonged to a villa owned by ex-Vice President and New York State governor George Clinton, now in a narrow court behind 422 West 46th Street.

The last regular long distance narrow boat carrying contract, to a jam factory near London, ended in 1971, although lime juice continued to be carried between Brentford and Boxmoor until 1981, substantial tonnages of aggregates were carried by narrow boat subsequently on the Grand Union ( River Soar ) until 1996 and more recently between Denham and West Drayton.

South down Dongsi Jie, past another mosque, the entrance to the West Pagoda is along a narrow lane on the right.

Light gets in through the rose windows of the West façade and transept, the narrow windows of the lateral aisles of the nave as well as the windows of the lantern tower of the transept.

It became widely known in Russia, and the West outside the narrow confines of the intelligence community, during perestroika, in part thanks to the writings of " Viktor Suvorov " ( Vladimir Rezun ), a GRU agent who defected to Britain in 1978, and wrote about his experiences in the Soviet military and intelligence services.