GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: the Near/Middle East
March 21, 2000: Israel hands over some of the West Bank territory to the Palestinians.

The West Bank land handed over in a transfer from Israeli to Palestinian control amounts to 6.1 percent of the total Occupied Territories. This completes the transfer agreement made at Wye River in 1998.

NPR Hamas Threatens Palestinian Authority
http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/segment_display .cfm?segID=24014

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's council of ministers and the PLO executive committee approved the Wye River Agreement at a meeting Friday. (November 1998)
PBS Promises - A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2001/promises/timeline4.html

This timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict spans the years between 1991 and 2001.