Last week’s encounter in the Palestinian town of Tell, in which 4 Palestinians and 2 Israelis were killed, shatters the foolish lie of wayward youth and spontaneous, isolated incidents. The Palestinians were not terrorists. This is a plan: attack Palestinian areas deeper and deeper inside the West Bank, to force them to leave.
Demolitions, colonial farms, and record colonizer violence are accelerating Israel’s de‑facto annexation of large parts of the occupied West Bank
The rebellion did not start where standard military analysts expected it to—it ignited in a small farming town among people who decided that fighting back was the only response left to quiet, gradual annihilation.
Solomon’s Pools date back to the second century BCE, and have become a source of recreation for nearby Bethlehem. Ever since an Israeli minister threatened to “erase” the agreements that confirmed Palestinian ownership more than 30 years ago, Israeli settlers & troops have stepped up their presence around the site
Israeli real estate companies are marketing land belonging to Palestinians in the West Bank to Jewish American buyers. We spoke to the Palestinians who are being displaced in order to make way for new Jewish settlement construction.
Historically, Palestinians have had high rates of literacy, far exceeding global averages. “Education is a central part of Palestinian society’s sense of itself—it’s a crucial crucible for belonging, identity, collective politics.”
We were driving between Palestinian communities, when suddenly our convoy was stopped by men armed with M4 military-grade rifles. There was nothing special about the incident, and that’s what makes it so disturbing. In the region we visited together with Rep. Khanna, there is not even a pretense of separation between the settlers and the army.
One morning, the Hathaleen family of Umm al-Khair discovered that their outhouse had fallen within the illegally expanding boundaries of the nearby Carmel settlement. Then the IDF made things even worse. The family now has to cross the road to use the neighbors’ toilet
This new, comprehensive report by two Israeli NGOs concludes that the current Israeli government has advanced de facto annexation of the West Bank at an unprecedented pace.
The Israeli settler movement and its allies in the government have submitted a plan to build 100 new outposts in Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank. The move would effectively eliminate the Oslo Accords.