UNDER ATTACK - 2000 years of Christianity in Jerusalem, Israel | CNN
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For 2,000 years, Christians have called the Holy Land home. CNN’s Clarissa Ward travels from Jerusalem to the occupied West Bank to examine how Israeli ultranationalist extremism is reshaping that
reality.
0:00 Losing Ground: Christians in the Holy Land
3:32 Anti-Christian Incidents in Jerusalem are rising
8:01 Christian Palestininans are leaving faster than most
13:24 A confrontation with the Israeli army
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Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East. Located on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea. It has land borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan on the east, the Palestinian territories of the
West Bank and Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively, and Egypt to the southwest.
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Palestinian Authority claim Jerusalem as their capital, as Israel maintains its primary governmental institutions there and the State of Palestine ultimately foresees it as its seat of power; however, neither claim is widely recognized internationally.
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