Land Grab: Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank (NYT, 2025-12-20)
Land Grab: Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank (NYT, 2025-12-20)
Land Grab: Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank (NYT, 2025-12-20)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/20/world/middleeast/west-bank-settlements.html?unlocked%5C_article%5C_code=1.-U8.R5RM.EG-QMd8t24e9(Gift Link copied from 🙏https://mastodon.social/@JapanProf/115757650872932977 )———
Every Saturday, sheep owned by Jewish settlers march through the olive groves that Rezeq Abu Naim and his family have tended for generations, crushing tree limbs and damaging roots. The extremist settlers, armed and sometimes masked, lead their herds to drink from the family’s scant water supplies …
… since the Oct. 7., 2023, … Israel’s far-right government has embraced a playbook of expanding settlements across the West Bank, transforming the region, piece by piece, from a patchwork of connected Palestinian villages into a collection of Israeli neighborhoods…
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