The Refugee Camp in the West Bank

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Janine is the northernmost Palestinian city in the West Bank. It's not near many other towns or villages and there are no Israeli settlements close by either. The refugee camp has always been a place where Israeli forces have had difficulty operating. But why is it that Israeli forces have felt the need to operate now? So in the last couple of years, a new local organization called the Janine Brigades started up.

The so-called refugee camp in the city of Jenin has been subject to raids for months—and a hotspot for militants for decades. We ask what set things off so violently this week. Now that Jair Bolsonaro is barred from Brazilian office for eight years, what happens to his brand of politics (11:17)? And how America got a new king of beers (19:17).

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