"While the world's attention was fixed upon the annihilation in Gaza, settlers in the West Bank intensified their campaign of ethnic cleansing. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed there since October 2023; a fifth of them were children. Many more have been driven from their homes by relentless harassment and the destruction of infrastructure, with entire Palestinian communities erased across vast swathes of land."
"The Israeli state is not merely complicit in these acts. In addition to the economic suffocation and increased military raids in the West Bank, the Guardian reported last month that settler-only units of the army are acting as vigilante militias. Haaretz newspaper reports that the military has ordered soldiers to prevent Palestinians from ploughing their land at the behest of settlers not only threatening them with destitution, but paving the way for land seizure."
New administrative and enforcement measures in the occupied West Bank loosen constraints on land purchase and strengthen mechanisms that enable land seizure. Senior Israeli ministers declared an intent to kill the idea of a Palestinian state while settler violence and harassment intensified as international attention focused on Gaza. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023 and many communities have been emptied through destruction of infrastructure and forced displacement. Reports indicate settler-only army units operate as vigilante militias and soldiers have been ordered to stop Palestinians ploughing land, facilitating dispossession. U.S. focus remained on Iran while opposing formal annexation.
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