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Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike at a residential building in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, January 14, 2024
THE Palestinian Authority accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today of sponsoring and supporting settler violence in the West Bank to deliver the final blow to signed peace agreements.
The authority’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned systematic Israeli crimes against the civilian population of the West Bank and their property and land.
With the attention of the world fixed on the brutal Israeli military campaign in Gaza, continued attacks by Israeli settlers on the West Bank has slipped beneath the radar.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
The people of Palestine need our solidarity in actions not words – trade unionists must give them our full support in their darkest hour, writes DANIEL KEBEDE