Violence surge in West Bank as Israeli settlers target Palestinians
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The West Bank, so called due to its relation to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two Palestinian territories. A landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the Levant region of West Asia, it is bordered by Jordan and the Dead Sea to the east and by Israel to the south, west, and north. The territory has been under Israeli occupation since 1967.
Israeli airstrikes killed at least six aid workers delivering food into the West Bank, according to verified footage. It comes as..