This process of ethnic cleansing in the remote areas of the West Bank, with the forcing of impoverished unprotected shepherds out of their lands and homes by violent “hill top” Israeli settlers and Israeli youth, supported by the Israeli military, is violent ethnic cleansing on a wide scale. The attempt is to leave a vast area from east from Ramallah to the outskirts of Jericho emptied of Palestinians. With the taking of more and more land, the prospect of a two-state solution (long dead) cannot be touted by our Prime Minister Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong as a solution. It is dead, dead and the Palestinians are still there in apartheid enclaves. They surely know this to be the case but are refusing to support the possibility of peace which begins, at the very least, with a ceasefire on Gaza.

Source: With focus on Gaza there is escalation of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank – Pearls and Irritations