On September 1, as Israeli children began the school year, toddlers entered their new nursery in Homesh, a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank. Like many other Israeli schools and nurseries in the West Bank, it was built with government support and funding. But Homesh is different: it was one of the settlements dismantled 20 years ago under Ariel Sharon’s “disengagement” plan, when Israel withdrew from Gaza and a small part of the West Bank.
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