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Palestinian-Americans who returned to their ancestral home find themselves in a worsening conflict with Israeli settlers and soldiers.
Last week, Israel's far-right Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, announced the creation of thousands of new housing units in a large West Bank settlement bloc further south, saying it would "bury the idea of a Palestinian state".
Extremists are carrying out one of the most violent campaigns against Palestinian villages since the U.N. began keeping records.
If the process moves quickly, infrastructure work could begin in the next few months and construction of homes could start in around a year.
Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, will exclude another six Israeli companies with connections to the West Bank and Gaza from its portfolio following an ethics review, it said on Monday.
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Footage shows Fatah summer camp in West Bank urging kids to be martyrs and prisoners
A Fatah summer camp in Nablus calls on children “to follow the path of the martyrs and prisoners.” The Nablus branch of Fatah in the West Bank organized a three-day camp in the beginning of August for 200 Palestinian children under the slogan “Fatah Army.”
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