Even before the Hamas attacks, settler violence was hitting its highest levels since the United Nations began tracking it in the mid 2000s. According to U.N. figures, there used to be one incident of settler violence a day. The West Bank, which has been rocked by major uprisings before, feels primed to explode. Gaza and the West Bank are two separate areas that Israel captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Roughly half a million Jewish settlers live in the West Bank, alongside an estimated 2.7 million Palestinians.

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Persons: ”, “, Israel, Naomi Kahn, ” “, “ I’m Organizations: West Bank, United Nations, Israel Defense Forces, Palestinian, Palestinian Authority Locations: Gaza, West, Israel