Here's How Israel Is Continuing to Deepen Its Occupation of the West Bank

"It unfolds in three seemingly unrelated processes: financial warfare against Palestinian economic life, state-backed settler terror, and the legalization of annexation. What binds these processes together isn't simply their occurrence in the same territory at the same time, but their shared architecture: they are part of a regime of compression that doesn't outright destroy Palestinian life, but systematically constrains it."

"All of this takes place under the radar, as the world appears to be moving away from Palestine. The global movements were, after all, convoked by the horror of daily massacres, yet everything in the West Bank appears unchanging on the surface. The daily passage through checkpoints has hardened into a ritual. Over 42,000 Palestinian refugees from the camps in Jenin and Tulkarem remain displaced, inhabiting a suspended tension that refuses resolution."

A quiet transformation is advancing in the West Bank through three concurrent processes: financial warfare targeting Palestinian economic life, state-backed settler terror, and the legalization of annexation. These mechanisms form a shared architecture described as a regime of compression that systematically constrains Palestinian life without outright destruction. One mechanism operates through liquidity restrictions, another through organized violence, and a third through legal measures that normalize land seizure and settlement expansion. Daily checkpoints and routine displacements normalize restricted movement. Over 42,000 refugees from Jenin and Tulkarem remain displaced, living in prolonged uncertainty. Global attention and solidarity have waned as spectacular violence becomes less televisable.

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