Beyond the West Bank: the New Frontier of Israel’s Settlement Expansion

Beyond the West Bank: the new frontier of Israel’s settlement expansion

Our special report takes us right into the middle of one of these settler attacks, this time in a Bedouin village in the south of the West Bank. But as the filmmaker Katie Arnold has found, Bedouin citizens of Israel are also being forcibly displaced from their homes amid a recent spate of demolitions to make space for new settlements. Even soldiers who’ve fought with the IDF in Gaza have come home to find their villages gone.

JFJFPStop the bulldozers, stop the propaganda: Israel’s Bedouin citizens are not a ‘planning problem’ – JFJFP

Israeli authorities demolishing houses in Qasr al-Sir, a Bedouin village in southern Israel’s Negev desert, May 2025 The lead Haaretz editorial on 3 June 2025: Since it was sworn in 17 months ago, the Netanyahu government has left hundreds of Bedouin citizens – including children, older people and people with disabilities or chronic illness – without roofs over their heads. Some have lived in tents for a year, others have managed, with great dif…