Olive Harvest Season Marked with Assault by Jewish Settlers

Olive harvest season marked with assault by Jewish settlers

Settlers emboldened by government with ambitions for annexation.

UN Human Rights Office Warns Israeli Settler Violence in West Bank Is ‘Surging’

The Trump administration insisted last week that it would not allow Israel to annex the occupied West Bank.

UN Human Rights Office Warns Israeli Settler Violence in West Bank Is “Surging”

The UN Human Rights office for Palestine has warned that Israel is rapidly accelerating its campaign to annex the occupied West Bank, with settlers adding outposts at a pace 10 times higher than the previous average rate just in the past year. Recent settler attacks on the olive harvest have underscored the danger faced by Palestinian communities, the office noted, with this season alone… Source

David Hearst - As Israel devours the West Bank, Abbas clings on to a sinking PA

The status quo – a decrepit PA policing a West Bank that is being over-run by Israeli-state backed settler violence – can’t go on forever. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region and analyst on Saudi Arabia. He was the Guardian’s foreign leader writer, and was correspondent in Russia, Europe, and Belfast. He joined the Guardian from The Scotsman, where he was education corr…

West Bank Faces Unprecedented Israeli Violence Amidst Ceasefire

Israeli settler militias, backed by soldiers, are laying waste to Palestinian communities – beating residents, torching crops, smashing cars, slaughtering animals.