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Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin will visit Israel and the Israeli occupied West Bank

on his latest trip to the region which begins tomorrow.

He will meet with both Israeli and Palestinian officials.

The West Bank is where the Palestinian Authority is based.

It's only about the size of the state of Delaware.

For those of you who never really looked at a map of the region,

the population these days is usually reported

as around 3 million Palestinians and around 700,000 Israeli settlers.

A headline in the Israeli newspaper Haarats says,

with all eyes on Gaza, West Bank Palestinians are facing unprecedented violence.

Harit said since October 7th, more than 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli security forces in the West Bank.

Reuter says, killed by Israeli security forces or settlers.

Aharet says the security forces have allowed settlers to threaten and attack West Bank residents without consequence.

The New York Times adds that as of late October, more than 2,000 Palestinians in the West Bank

had been injured and nearly 1,000 forcibly displaced by Israeli forces and settlers that from the New York Times.

Haritz also reports that Israeli security forces, the IDF, have detained a huge number of people

in mass arrests of Palestinians suspected of being part of Hamas.

The Times of Israel quotes the IDF saying

troops have arrested some 2,000 wanted Palestinians

across the West Bank, including more than 1,100 affiliated with Hamas since October 7th.

The Jerusalem Post reports that Hamas too has a post-October 7th game plan in the West Bank.

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