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West Bank or Judea and Samaria?
One area, two names. “West Bank” comes from Jordan’s 1948 control west of the river. “Judea and Samaria” is the older name, and the one Israel uses.
“West Bank” names the land after Jordan’s 1948 control: west of the Jordan River. “Judea and Samaria” names it by its older Hebrew geography. One label is from 1948. The other is from the Bible.
Neither name changes the security record. Shin Bet still counts the attacks on those roads. The blog post on the 2024–2025 numbers has the count.
Naza: The Real Story is a Gaza film. Judea and Samaria is a different front of the same wider war.