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☆ Palestinians Abandon Villages Following West Bank Settler Violence
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Palestinians Abandon Villages Following West Bank Settler ViolenceThe U.N. said Israeli settler attacks in the West Bank have doubled since the Israel-Hamas war began, prompting many Palestinians to abandon their homes. WSJ’s Margherita Stancati visited the village of Zanuta to find out more. Photo Illustration: Marina Costa/Tanya Habjouqa

Persons: Margherita Stancati, Marina Costa, Tanya Habjouqa Organizations: Bank Settler, West Bank, Hamas Locations: Israel, Zanuta

ZANUTA, West Bank—Hanaa Abul-Kbash was home with her children in this tiny village in the occupied West Bank when she says an Israeli settler, armed with a military-style rifle, barged in telling her she had to go. “I told him this has been my home for 21 years and that I would not leave,” recalls 43-year-old Abul-Kbash of the encounter in late-October. The man grabbed her by the collar, shook her violently, cocked his weapon and left, Abul-Kbash says. Days later, on Oct. 28, she and the roughly 250 other residents of Zanuta abandoned the Palestinian village.

Persons: West Bank — Hanaa Abul, Kbash, “, ” Organizations: West Bank —, West Bank Locations: Zanuta

BEITUNIA, West Bank—After more than a year of detention, Azhar Assaf has finally returned to her home in the occupied West Bank. Although she doesn’t consider herself to be political, she says she owes her freedom to Hamas. Assaf and other freed prisoners, many of whom have been held without trial, are attributing their release to Hamas, with some openly praising the group. That is helping to boost Hamas’s public image among Palestinians amid a war with Israel that has left more than 15,000 dead in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to authorities in the enclave. The numbers don’t distinguish between militants and civilians.

Persons: Azhar Assaf, doesn’t, Assaf Organizations: West Bank —, West Bank Locations: Israel, Gaza

☆ For Israelis Living at Gaza’s Edge, Fear Pervades Daily Life
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Dov Lieber | Photographs Tanya Habjouqa Noor Images For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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IKSAL, Israel—As Hamas launched its deadly assault on Israel nearly a month ago, the mastermind of the Islamist militant group’s attacks incited Arab citizens of Israel to “kill, burn and destroy” their Jewish neighbors. Instead, Awad Darawshe helped those wounded in Hamas’s violent rampage. “It cost him his life,” said his sister, Raya Darawshe.

Persons: Israel —, “, Awad Darawshe, ”, Raya Darawshe Organizations: Hamas Locations: IKSAL, Israel

☆ Scenes From the Israel-Hamas War, Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial, Storm Ciaran and More: Photos of the Week
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Gilad Gur, a 27-year-old paramedic, gets help from area boys as he builds a sandbag barrier to strengthen security at the Israeli settlement of Shiloh. Gilad Gur, a 27-year-old paramedic, gets help from area boys as he builds a sandbag barrier to strengthen security at the Israeli settlement of Shiloh. Tanya Habjouqa/NOOR Images for The Wall Street JournalTanya Habjouqa/NOOR Images for The Wall Street Journal

Persons: Gilad Gur, Tanya Habjouqa Organizations: Wall, Wall Street Locations: Shiloh

TEL AVIV—The body bags arrive by the dozen in a refrigerated truck first thing every morning. Some contain corpses, some only fragmentary remains, burned almost to ash. Another shipment usually comes before noon. Three weeks after the bloody massacre that killed 1,400 people in southern Israel, the cramped yellow building that houses Israel’s government forensic laboratory is still inundated with unidentified remains. The bags line the morgue hallway, on gurneys and the floor, spilling into an outdoor courtyard.

Locations: TEL AVIV, Israel, gurneys

QUSRA, West Bank—On the morning of Oct. 12, Hani Odeh was considering a problem: how to get the bodies of four Palestinians shot dead during an attack by Israeli settlers to the cemetery in Qusra, where he is mayor. The four men had been killed the day before. Israeli police are still investigating the circumstances of the deaths, which came after Hamas’s massacre of over 1,400 people a few days earlier, and the Israeli military had instructed the mayor to change the route of the cortege from the hospital to avoid inflaming the situation further. Odeh, smoking cigarettes in his office, the customary portrait of Yasser Arafat hanging above his desk, said he complied.

Persons: Hani Odeh, Yasser Arafat Organizations: West Bank — Locations: Qusra

☆ How Israel Is Preparing to Dismantle Hamas by Invading Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

How Israel Is Preparing to Dismantle Hamas by Invading GazaIsrael has vowed to kill everyone involved in the Oct. 7 surprise attack by Hamas, from its top leaders on down. Ben C. Solomon reports from a mock Palestinian village, where soldiers are training for a widely-anticipated ground assault in Gaza. Photo: Tanya Habjouqa/NOOR Images for The Wall Street Journal

Persons: Ben C, Solomon, Tanya Habjouqa Organizations: Wall Street Locations: Israel, Gaza Israel, Gaza

TZE’ELIM, Israel—In the sun-torched plains of southern Israel, thousands of soldiers wait for the go-ahead from politicians and commanders to do what the Israeli military has trained for years to do: fight in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military has built a replica of a generic Palestinian village nicknamed “Little Gaza” at a base in the Negev Desert, where soldiers train for combat against armed terrorists in narrow streets and a labyrinth of tunnels.

Persons: Israel — Organizations: Gaza Locations: TZE’ELIM, Israel, Gaza

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Persons: Dow Jones Locations: palestinian

HUWARA, West Bank—The smell of burning tires hung in the air as father of four Ziad Dmeidi on Wednesday surveyed the damage to his home which was set ablaze by a group of Jewish settlers that stormed this small West Bank town last weekend. “We’re just glad to be alive,” he said. The attack by the settlers—which left one Palestinian dead and 390 injured, according to Palestinian health officials—was part of an escalating wave of tit-for-tat violence in the West Bank as a new, right-wing Israeli government moves to expand Israeli settlements and continue a prolonged counterterrorism campaign that began last spring.

NABLUS, West Bank—For young Palestinians in the Balata refugee camp, sleep begins after dawn. Rising in the afternoon, they wolf down a meal, grab their rifles and disperse to hide-outs down narrow alleys to wait for the arrival of Israeli troops. After sunset, the gunfights begin. It is a routine that both Israeli military forces and the Palestinian Authority see as a growing danger—young, armed militants in the West Bank who have no affiliation with known groups such as Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Leaderless and angry, they have proved difficult for Israeli and Palestinian authorities to suppress, resulting in one of the bloodiest years in the West Bank in a decade and threatening to undermine the fragile Western-backed Palestinian rulers.

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