Three years of Israel’s mass dispossession of West Bank Palestinians

Al-Awsaj, occupied West Bank – On September 23, weeks before Israel’s parliamentary elections, ministers and lawmakers gathered on an occupied West Bank hilltop to inaugurate a new settlement, Metzoke Eretz, illegal under international law. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich used the ceremony to salute the settler outpost that made the eventual settlement possible.“The first pioneering settlers who were here on the farm… we will lift them up as our greatest joy,” Smotrich said. “It shows that the method works: establish a farm, seize the land, prepare it, turn it into a community, move to the next point. There are many, many such heroes – those who prove they are not doing real estate. They are doing Zionism.”Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Birzeit University memorial destruction aims to crush Palestinian memorylist 2 of 3‘Not the act of a friend’: Israel’s deadline to close UK consulate nearslist 3 of 3How Palestinian reporters defied Israel’s genocide to redefine journalismend of listMetzoke Eretz was previously an outpost – the name given to the Jewish settlements illegal even under Israeli law – called Netzah Harel, established in 2023 in the middle of al-Muarrajat...