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Who are Israeli settlers, and why do they live on Palestinian lands?

Israeli settlers hold a march from Tapuach junction to the Israeli settler outpost of Evyatar, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, April 10, 2023 [Nir Elias/Reuters]

Since Israel unleashed its brutal bombing campaign in Gaza on October 7 in the wake of a deadly Hamas attack, settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem have more than doubled from an average of three to eight incidents a day, according to the United Nations.

The spike in settler attacks have forced hundreds of Palestinians to flee their homes in the past three weeks amid the Israeli bombardment of Gaza that has killed more than 9,500 people.

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