what you need to know about the
Israeli-palestinian conflict
the region is experiencing some of the worst violence it's seen in years it's escalated from clashes in the streets to deadly rocket attacks and airstrikes what's happening is the result of a number of different recent events palestinians have accused israeli police of heavy-handed policing during ramadan also there have been viral social media posts of palestinians attacking jewish people anti-arab slogans being chanted by israeli nationalists had a march through the streets and a general increase in cases of harassment of palestinians and violence by both sides all of this is happening against the backdrop of a high-profile court case surrounding the potential eviction of palestinian families from their homesin the east jerusalem neighborhood of shek jarrah none of these events on their own may seem big enough to cause this level of violence but the anger that we're seeing now is fueled by more than a century of tensions war oppression and trauma so to properly understand what's going on now you need to look back let's start with the basics when we talk about israel and palestinian territories we mean these areas this is israel and this is gaza and the west bank which are also known as occupied territories most of the people who live in gaza and the west bank call themselves palestinians they have their own governing bodies and speak mostly arabic whereas the official language of israel is hebrew within the u.n more than 130 nations
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