The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is also increasingly about human rights. In order to ensure their own security, Israel has built large segregation walls around sections of the West Bank occupied territories. This funnels Palestinian workers through heavily guarded checkpoints that are slow, and closed or open at random. Most of the hospitals are on the Israeli side, so its difficult for Palestinians to get access to health care. They have had two separate, long-running uprisings in the occupied territories called intifadahs.
Many diplomats and regional experts say that one of the only obvious solutions is the Palestinians getting their own country.
On the Israeli side, they suffer terror bombings from a group called Hamas, based in the Palestinian territories, especially the Gaza Strip. They claim they have the right to protect their citizens and their borders. Unfortunately, they also rely on Palestinian workers for their economy to function, much as our economy relies on immigrants for the lower paying jobs.
Some of the issues at stake for a solution are the fate of Jerusalem, and the Right of Return, as argued above. Israel also demands formal recognition of its right to exist as a country, which Palestinians have steadfastly refused to do.
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