Israeli settlers have been targeting villages on the eastern slopes of Ramallah for months, with the latest attacks turning deadly. Villagers say it’s all part of Israel’s plans to drive Palestinians out of the area and pave the way for annexation.
The Trump administration is calling on Israel to investigate the killing of Sayfollah Musallet, but Israel rarely holds soldiers or settlers accountable for violence against Palestinians.
The villagers of Taybeh have lived in harmony with the nearby Bedouins for generations. Israeli colonization and the shrinking land available to these communities are now straining social relations, as Israeli settler violence threatens both.
Israeli settlers went on a rampage in the town of Kufr Malek, northeast of Ramallah, killing three Palestinians. The attack is the latest in an escalating wave of settler pogroms against Palestinian communities between the Jordan Valley and Ramallah.
After being forced out of their homes by violent Israeli settlers, the Bedouin community of Maghayer al-Deir joins a growing list of Palestinian Bedouins whose villages have been taken over by settlers since October 7, 2023.
What is regarded as “calm” in the West Bank is a daily reality of settler and army violence, home demolitions, and arrests. It is as if for Palestinians to exist in the media, they have to be killed.
The Israeli army is launching offensives in the northern West Bank as Israeli politicians, emboldened by Donald Trump, seek to realize their dreams of annexation.
Budget documents obtained by Mondoweiss show how the JNF supports the same violent Israeli settlers who were recently sanctioned by the Biden administration. Advocates say the organization itself should come under U.S. government scrutiny as well.
Congressional Democrats led by Rep. Summer Lee and Sen. Peter Welch have introduced legislation to sanction Israeli settlers that commit acts of violence in the West Bank.
Despite being the victims of an attack on our own land, we now face the possibility of imprisonment. It’s not a normal way of life, but it has become the normalized reality under Israeli occupation.