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The UN's Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on February 12, 2012. Presenting her preliminary findings after a tour of Israel and the Palestinian territories this month, Rolnik charged Israel is dispossessing Palestinians in east Jerusalem and the West Bank as well as its Arab minority with a 'strategy of Judaisation.'

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The State of Israel (Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל (help·info), Medinat Yisra'el; Arabic: دَوْلَةْ إِسْرَائِيل‎, Dawlat Isrā'īl) is a country in the Western Asian Levant, on the southeastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon on the north, Syria and Jordan on the east, and Egypt on the south-west. It has a population of over seven million people. Israel declared independence in 1948 and is the world's only Jewish state, although its population includes citizens of many ethnic and religious backgrounds.

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