Israeli forces have forced 407 Palestinian families, nearly 2,650 people, from their homes in Hebron, sealing the city’s entrances and closing the Ibrahimi Mosque to Muslim worshipers. Displaced residents describe being given one hour and one bag.

Covering Israeli settler attacks on the Palestinian olive harvest, Mondoweiss’ Palestine Staff Writer asks how to tell a story when you and the subject are one and the same.

Israeli settlers are blocking, assaulting, and robbing Palestinian olive harvesters. For some 100,000 families in the West Bank who rely on the harvest for income, this season may decide whether the olive harvest survives at all.

Israel is detaining international observers for one simple reason: to prevent us from reporting on its ethnic cleansing project in Palestine.

Since August, Israeli settlers have blocked Palestinians from Umm Safa from reaching the village’s only cemetery. Residents say it’s the latest in a series of escalations by settlers — backed by the Israeli army — who are trying to expel them.

Can a temporary consensus government advance Palestinian self-determination in the homeland and the diaspora?

Settler attacks in the West Bank are ongoing with the enthusiastic approval of the Israeli army, as Palestinians are barred from accessing their own land, and their olive groves, for the fourth year in a row.

From my uncle’s exasperated sighs over olive groves we can no longer reach, to the iron gates the Israeli army has erected at the edge of my village, there is one word we use to cope: ‘aadi’, or, “normal” in Arabic. But this reality is anything but.

Israel is preparing to give settlers access to a main Palestinian thoroughfare in Ramallah, a move that would bring checkpoints and gates to one of the West Bank’s last spaces of free Palestinian movement and affordable urban growth.

The Senate blocked Van Hollen’s resolution seeking a State Department report on the killing of nine Americans in the West Bank, despite 84% public support. Meanwhile, Troy Jackson’s Maine Senate campaign faces scrutiny over its handling of Gaza.