Planting themselves inside trailer homes and the community’s synagogue, the protesters defied police, who carried some away. The most basic truth is that the Land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel,” including the West Bank, she said. The Palestinians want the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem — territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war — for their future state. Israel withdrew its troops and settlers from Gaza in 2005, and the territory was subsequently overrun by the Hamas militant group. A day before the evacuation, Netanyahu approved 3,000 West Bank settler homes, in addition to earlier approvals of 2,500 homes in the West Bank and 560 in east Jerusalem.

Source: thestar February 01, 2017 20:31 UTC