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The West Bank is a Palestinian territory between Israel and Jordan that been under Israeli military occupation since 1967. For decades Israeli Jewish settlers have been creating settlements there, taking more and more of the West Bank away from Palestinians. This has the support of Israel\u2019s far right government, which faces a possible loss of power in an October election, and that\u2019s led to a frenzy of settlement activity. The government has legalized past settlements under Israeli law and approved new ones in areas that are supposed to be under Palestinian civil control.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We go to the West Bank, where Palestinian residents say they feel like they\u2019re being encircled by settlers trying to take their land, sometimes violently.<\/p>\n

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The West Bank is a Palestinian territory between Israel and Jordan that been under Israeli military occupation since 1967. For decades Israeli Jewish settlers have been creating settlements there, taking more and more of the West Bank away from Palestinians. This has the support of Israel\u2019s far right government, which faces a possible loss of power in an October election, and that\u2019s led to a frenzy of settlement activity. The government has legalized past settlements under Israeli law and approved new ones in areas that are supposed to be under Palestinian civil control.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We go to the West Bank, where Palestinian residents say they feel like they\u2019re being encircled by settlers trying to take their land, sometimes violently.<\/p>\n

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