Factbox-The West Bank settlements at the heart of the Middle East conflict

By Tala Ramadan and Ali Sawafta

(Reuters) -Israeli settlement building, a point of contention at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has come back into focus after Israel’s far-right finance minister revived a plan that would divide the West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem.

WHAT IS A SETTLEMENT?

An Israeli settlement is made up of housing units built for Jewish Israelis on land captured by Israel from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war, primarily in the West Bank and East…