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Attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians have also ramped up significantly.

So does the presence of more than 700,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, on land the UK and others now call the state of Palestine.

Jewish settlers have ramped up attacks against Palestinians, and established scores of new outposts without Israeli government authorisation.

In the West Bank, the presence of the Israeli military and Jewish settlers means the Palestinian Authority, established after the Oslo Accords peace deals of the 1990s, administers only around 40% of the territory.

"There will be no Palestinian state," Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, told settlers in the West Bank last week.