By Wikipedia Umm el-Fahm was not originally part of Israel. Jordan consented to include the strategically located community – then a town of 4,500 – on the…
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Baqa al-Gharbiyye is a city in the Haifa District in Israel, located near the Green Line. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2001 the city had a total population of 19,200. In 2003, Baqa al-Gharbiyye united with the local council Jatt to form Baqa-Jatt. Baqa al-Gharbiya is considered as the center of the arabic shopping Baqa al-Gharbiyye is separated from its West Bank sister city, Baqa ash-Sharqiyya (or Baqa East) by the Israeli West Bank barrier which in this section coincides with the Green Line. As a result, in one neighbourhood in Baqa al-Gharbiyye, the streets end abruptly with a wall of concrete and barbed wire.
