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Earlier this week, Israel launched a particularly large military operation involving ground forces

against Palestinian militants in the town of Janine in the occupied West Bank.

The troops have now withdrawn leaving 13 dead, 12 of them Palestinians. It's 30 years since the Oslo Accords were signed in

Washington, D.C., a process aimed at establishing an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty. Since the turn

of the millennium,

the process has stuttered and stumbled.

There have been uprisings or intifadas,

rockets, airstrikes and incursions,

and in recent years,

the process has apparently stopped altogether.

Why?

And what are the chances of it ever being resurrected? Step inside the briefing

room and together we'll find out. First, what happened in Janine and why? Joining me in the

briefing room from Jerusalem is Yuland Nell, the BBC's Middle East correspondent, who's just back from the town.

Yelan, where exactly is Janine and what kind of place is it?

Janine is basically a rural market town. It's far north in the West Bank, a bit off the beaten track.

It's about three miles from the Green Line, which is based on the 1948 ceasefire line.

So that means that some of those

Palestinian refugees who live there in its big refugee camp can look across to the fields that now

lie in Israel, where their parents, their grandparents came from. You see their high poverty

rates and high unemployment compared to other parts of the West Bank. A lot of people still work in

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