‘If you sleep, settlers will burn your house’: fear in the West Bank
The Palestinian village of Ras Ein al-Auja has held out against violent Israeli settlers – until now.

The Palestinian village of Ras Ein al-Auja has held out against violent Israeli settlers – until now.







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Israeli forces have injured dozens of people and carried out mass arrests as they carry out raids in Jerusalem.
Commercial premises among buildings facing demolition as military incursions intensify near Qalandiya and Kafr Aqab.
Israel’s approval of 19 new settlements stands to redraw occupied West Bank, undermining prospect of two-state solution.
Palestinian officials condemn the actions as part of a ‘systematic policy of displacement’.
The agency’s commissioner-general condemns raid as a direct violation of international law.

Seventy-six Palestinian patients and their attendants have returned to Gaza after being stranded for two years.

Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian villagers, activists, and journalists near Nablus.

Palestinian farmers are being blocked, harassed and arrested as they try to undertake the annual olive harvest.

Israel’s parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill to impose Israeli sovereignty on the occupied West Bank.

Israel’s foreign minister recently said Israeli settlers are “the most law-keeping people on earth”.