The Nawajas saved for 15 years to build their house. Now it is razed, along with over 2,000 more since 7 October, under a huge expansion of illegal Israeli settlements
When Israeli security forces suddenly arrived with bulldozers and a demolition team to tear down Mahmoud Mahmud Jibril Nawaja’s house, they came with little explanation.
“These demolitions are equal to death. They are killing us, but just in a different way,” said Nawaja.across the West Bank in the aftermath of the 7 October attacks, when Hamas militants attacked towns and kibbutzim around Gaza, killing 1,200 people and taking almost 250 hostage.has suffered another form of sweeping violence, including mass displacement, settler attacks and a marked land grab by the Israeli government.
Peace Now, which tracks settlement expansion, said Netanyahu’s government “has invested immense resources in creating facts on the ground” in the aftermath of the 7 October attacks. “This includes expanding settlements in the West Bank and accelerating annexation processes, with the aim of eliminating the possibility of a two-state solution and peace between Israelis and Palestinians,” they said.
Yonatan Mizrahi, a researcher with Peace Now, said: “It’s clear that the Israeli civil administration doesn’t want Palestinians to be there.” The difference in the number of building permits that the civil administration issues to Israeli settlers versus Palestinians over decades makes this plain. “You can count the number of permits that Palestinians have received in the last two decades, it’s very little,” he said.
“Until today, the settlements are not a viable economic project – about 60% of the workforce there commutes daily to Israel,” he said. “So highway networks are the most important thing for the settlement project in that sense ... it normalises this project to the average Israeli, and the way to do that is to suburbanise.
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