Perspectives
4 Questions for an Expert: Israel’s De Facto Annexation of the West Bank
Expert: Amjad Iraqi, International Crisis Group Senior Analyst for Israel/Palestine. Question: In recent weeks, the Israeli government has taken several steps to further entrench Israel’s nearly six-decade-old military occupation and settlement enterprise in the Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem. Many observers - and senior Israeli officials themselves - say these measures amount to…
Israel is Destroying My Entire Community and the World is Doing Nothing to Stop It
Every night, I go to sleep with my camera next to me, prepared to be awakened at any moment by the sound of Israeli military bulldozers coming to destroy my home. I’ve already photographed soldiers forcing dozens of families out of their homes in Masafer Yatta over the past month, part of the largest forced displacement of Palestinians carried out by Israel in decades. If the international…
Expert Q&A: Israel’s Expulsion of Palestinians from Masafer Yatta
Expert: Basel Adra, journalist and activist from Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank. On May 4, 2022, the Israeli supreme court ruled that Israel could expel more than 1,000 Palestinians from their homes in the Masafer Yatta region of the occupied West Bank, ostensibly to make way for a training zone for Israel’s occupying army. While Israel routinely destroys the homes of Palestinians,…
Expert Q&A: On Israel’s Displacement of the Palestinian Bedouin
Expert Suhad Bishara, Attorney and Director of Land and Planning Rights Unit for Adalah: The Legal Center for Minority Rights in Israel. Q&A Q - On September 16, Haaretz newspaper reported that the Israeli government is advancing plans to forcibly relocate 12,500 Bedouin Palestinians from lands just east of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank to planned communities in the Jordan Valley. Why does…