“It’s like another Nakba”: Notes from the West Bank: “The settlers rule everything since 7 October. Now the soldiers take orders from the settlers, not the other way around.” (Julie M. Norman | The

“It’s like another Nakba”: Notes from the West Bank: “The settlers rule everything since 7 October. Now the soldiers take orders from the settlers, not the other way around.” (Julie M. Norman | The New Humanitarian, 2025-11-04)

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2025/11/04/another-nakba-notes-west-bank-palestine-expansion-settlements———

During my most recent visit, in summer 2025, the tribulations of the past two decades were still there, but all have been exacerbated in the period following 7 October 2023. The Israeli military has imposed severe movement restrictions and launched deadly raids throughout the territory, settlers have been allowed to rampage with impunity and even encouragement from the government, ...

… Even as conditions in the West Bank deteriorated, … an inescapable sense of guilt that, whatever they were experiencing, it didn’t compare to #Gaza.

Now though, with the fragile ceasefire in place, there is … also growing fear. What will this next phase mean for the #WestBank ?

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