LA Times by Noga Tarnopolsky, Laura King 6/28/2020
JERICHO, West Bank —
In this sunbaked biblical oasis, Palestinians are bracing for what they fear will be Israel’s boldest territorial claim ever outside of war.
“We will stay here whatever they do — we are not leaving our land,†said Ahmad Yagi, a teacher in his 50s in Aqabat Jaber, a nearby Palestinian refugee camp.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that as soon as Wednesday, Israel may move to annex up to 30% of the West Bank, home to sites sacred to the major monotheistic religions and the heartland of what many Palestinians and much of the rest of the world have long hoped will someday be a Palestinian state.
In the more than half a century since seizing the territory in the 1967 Middle East War, Israel has maintained a military occupation and built an archipelago of Jewish settlements, some hilltop hamlets, others the size of cities.
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