Under the cover of war, the cooperation between the military and Israeli settler militias is deepening the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.
Obviously, the new war with Iran is focusing attention and everyone’s energy. It’s also physically much more difficult to go out from the vicinity of your home because you’re constantly under these barrages of missiles, so people tend to stay close to shelters. Because of that, I think fewer people are going out to the West Bank to provide a protective or solidarity presence.
But the main thing is that the settlers, the army, and the [Israeli] authorities in the West Bank are using this as another opportunity to further push out Palestinian communities throughout Area C [the part of the West Bank that is under full Israeli civil and military control under the Oslo Accords, making up about 60 percent of the territory], away from the open spaces of the West Bank to the densely populated enclaves.
And in Gaza, the US-Israeli attack on Iran has effectively frozen what little progress there had been since the so-called ceasefire — including any movement toward improvement in the humanitarian situation.
Auteur: Sarit Michaeli
