Welcome to the first in our new series, the West Bank Dispatch. This newsletter will cover the main developments you need to know about Palestinian resistance to Israeli settler-colonialism in the occupied West Bank. Each week we’ll bring you key developments, analysis from our Palestine news team, and insight into what Palestinians living under Israeli apartheid in the West Bank are reading and talking about.
Sa’diya Matar died in the Israeli prison of Damon, where she was being detained. Medical negligence in Israeli prisons is killing Palestinians prisoners.
After a year of battling for justice for her husband, Jihan Banat and her four children have found neither justice nor solace, and the Palestinian public has been left without answers.
The Palestinian Authority has reached the weakest point since its inception as angry protesters take to the streets to oppose skyrocketing food prices.
The world is justly alarmed by the treatment of Ukrainian civilians under Russian occupation. It should also pay heed to the Palestinian experience of Israeli military occupation in Hebron, where schoolchildren are detained at checkpoints and stun grenades hurled at journalists. The Campaign to Defund Racism, a broad coalition of Palestinian organizations and international allies, has called for our international supporters to challenge the laws that allow charities to underwrite our dispossession and erasure.
Palestinians in Hebron call on the international community to join in the Dismantle the Ghetto campaign and take action to evacuate Israeli settlers from the city.
A recent US military visit to the illegal Jewish settlement in occupied Hebron shows that the Biden administration is legitimizing the occupation and accepting the one-state reality that is Israel/Palestine. Palestinians were not included in the visit, and the army host was settler Noam Arnon — who has called Jewish terrorists “heroes” — and whose settler cohort are not interested in peaceful coexistence but in military domination of the occupied Palestinians.
Rabbi Michael Davis sought to further his Arabic studies by visiting his teacher in Hebron. She took him to the armed Jewish-Israeli settler encampment in the heart of the Palestinian city. “Despite the show of military force, the hospitality of my hosts reminded me: an outstretched hand provides greater security than all the guns in the world.”
Let’s hope 2022 is the year that the grassroots break down the firewall in Washington on the death of the two-state solution. Liberal Zionists are the gatekeepers, and are preventing the discourse of apartheid and a struggle for human rights of replacing the political mantra of a secure homeland for the Jewish people.
Three Palestinian young people share the tremendous challenges they face due to the Israeli occupation.