What happened to the Green Line?
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The Green Line and the Palestinian National Movement
The number of settlement units and the settler population have grown so much that it no longer really makes sense to talk about the occupied West Bank as a separate or somehow peripheral territory. And this crossing of the green line hasn't just been one-way traffic, has it? No. Coming in the opposite direction are increasing militarisation, securitised surveillance policies and a settler-like mentality to judising different parts of the country. These developments were made painfully obvious in May 2021 when bands of settlers, often accompanied by Israeli security forces, terrorised Palestinian citizens of Israel. But May 2021 also shed light on a parallel undercutting of thegreen line by Palestinians, who during what's
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