On an evening stroll down HaGefen Street you could easily imagine you were in an American suburb of Los Angeles or Philadelphia.

Young parents push their strollers past big modern houses and greet their neighbours in American English. Children shriek during games of street basketball and clamber in and out of minivans on the way to after school activities.

There are only small jolting reminders – like the black handguns tucked into men’s waistbands or the Muslim call to prayer lilting from a nearby Palestinian village – that you are in fact in an Israeli settlement in the middle of the occupied West Bank.

It is here in the Neve Aliza neighbourhood of Karnei Shomron, a settlement that is home to many American-Israelis, that Donald Trump supporters are attempting something never before tried in US election history.

They are actively campaigning for the votes of American citizens living in Jewish settlements considered illegitimate by the US government.

A group known as Republicans Overseas Israel (ROI), which has close ties to the Republican Party and the Trump campaign but is independent from both, is pushing to win over US voters living in both Israel and the West Bank settlements.

They have hired a team of Israeli political operatives and are opening small field offices to mobilise Right-wing Americans ahead of November’s election.