While global attention remains fixed—yet helpless—by the horrors of the genocide in Gaza, a quieter but equally bedeviled Israeli plan is being implemented in the occupied West Bank. Under the fog of war, and aided by a willful placid Western media—Israel has intensified a second front of dispossession: bulldozing homes, and displacing families to reshape the demography in the West Bank. Armed Jewish settler mobs—Zionist Youth—have been unleashed, burning homes, olive groves, torching cars, and killing Palestinian, including American citizens. 

Last February, bulldozers stormed the village of Khalet Al-Dab in Masafer Yatta, razing nine homes, leaving residents searching for their belongings amidst dust and rubble. Israel claimed those structures were supposedly built in an area designated as a closed military zone.

Palestinian-owned land is routinely seized by Israel under the pretext of being closed military zones. And, nearly every Jewish-only colony is built on these same “closed military zones,” later rezoned exclusively for Jewish civilian use. This Zio deception is not about land management; it’s about “legalising” ethnic cleansing, cloaked in bureaucracy and executed by American made caterpillar bulldozers. 

In the refugee camps of Tulkarm and Jenin in the northern West Bank, the campaign is more militarized but equally destructive. Since January, Israel’s so-called “Operation Iron Wall” has turned the camps into war zones. Organized demolitions have leveled entire neighborhoods forcing people from........

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