Samaria

On Sunday, Israel's Defence Minister, Israel Katz, said the army was "at war with Islamic terrorism in Judea and Samaria" - the term Israel uses to describe the West Bank.

"I'm living in a place where my ancestors lived thousands of years ago. I do not live in occupied territory; I live in Biblical Judea and Samaria."

Huckabee, who denies the existence of a Palestinian identity, has vowed to keep sending weapons to Israel and support their occupation of the West Bank, which he refers to as Judea and Samaria.

The fact that he is a devout religious Jew infuriates the settlers, who believe the West Bank - the ancient lands of Judea and Samaria - belong to the Jewish people.

Combinations of these dynamics have been observed across historical contexts, from the biblical siege of Samaria to the Great Irish Famine of the late 1840s to the more recent crisis in Somalia.