The fractured connections between Palestinian communities impede a contiguous Palestinian state in the West Bank. “There will never be a Palestinian state,” Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in September. Israeli settlements have grown in size and number since Israel captured the West Bank in a 1967 war. Some Israeli ministers are now pressing for formal annexation of the West Bank in response to allies recognising Palestine. Read more: How Israel’s West Bank strategy aims to bury Palestinian statehoodSource: Reuters