West Bank settlements
A Rush To Build Settlements
The current Israeli government is the most extreme in the country’s history, and also one of its most durable. But polling numbers consistently show that Netanyahu’s coalition might not win the Oct. 27 election. Fear of losing is driving a frenzy of settlement activity in the West Bank.
How Israel Is Annexing the West Bank
For decades, West Bank Palestinians have remained determined to stay on their land, even as Israel made the region nearly uninhabitable with movement restrictions, depletion of resources, home demolitions, land seizures and army raids. Now, waves of violent attacks perpetrated by settler militias are forcibly displacing entire Palestinian communities.