Leila Molana-Allen:
Forty percent of the West Bank, mostly in urban areas and refugee camps, is defined as under the authority of the Palestinian government. But the other 60 percent is disputed.
The international community says it's illegal for Israelis to build there. Israeli settlers and increasingly the Israeli government reject that. Displacement is not just a humanitarian issue, but a political one. Any hope of a two-state solution relies on land in the West Bank becoming a Palestinian state.
As more and more Palestinian communities here disintegrate and are replaced by Israeli towns, that potential path to peace is closing. Israeli advocacy group B'Tselem documents human rights violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
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