Gaza has been destroyed and Trump and Netanyahu want to get rid of all the Palestinians left! With no right or return, and nowhere to go.
And in the meantime, the West Bank is slowly being cleared of Palestinians and Bedouins tribes- little by little, violently, with many killed like rabbits.
“What’s happening around Tko’a is what is happening elsewhere,” said Shaul. “New areas being cleansed by settler violence.”
Shaul said that in the 12 months before 7 October 2023 “we saw something like 100 Palestinians displaced” but in the months after the Hamas attack it was 1,400. He added that the acceleration of settler activity in the Tko’a area was being accommodated by the current Israeli political climate.
“Three and a half years ago there were around 240,000 dunums Palestinians could not access because of settler violence,” he said. “Today that figure is close to 800,000. That’s 12% of the West Bank.”
What was important now, Shaul said, was how Israeli settlers who had long behaved with impunity in Area C were now shifting their tactics to new parts of the West Bank with the aim of completely fragmenting the territory intended for a future Palestinian state.
“Now the settlers have become increasingly emboldened, the language being used is about the ‘battle over open space’, avoiding talking about Area B or C,” he said. “Because saying that, in their view, reinforces the Oslo paradigm which they reject.
“It’s now not good enough that Palestinians are contained in Areas A and B. Now the goal is that they must be contained in the built-up areas. The open spaces – they say – are ours. They are trying to put the last nail in the coffin [of a meaningful Palestinian state.]”
