Protests in the occupied West Bank as Israeli police attempt to dismantle the illegal settlement of Amona.
Israel's government says the Amona outpost is illegal, but it is referring to Israeli law. Under international law all settlements on occupied land are illegal.
Barely 300 people live in Amona, but with so much attention focused on this one, small place, is the international community losing sight of the bigger issues that surround Israel's illegal settlement programme?
Israeli settlements in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem have grown dramatically over the past few decades.
The settler population has more than doubled over the last 30 years and now stands at around 600,000. Of that, 400,000 settlers live in Palestinian territory in the West Bank and the remainder in occupied East Jerusalem.
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