I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I was shocked by how much worse it is today
I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I was shocked by how much worse it is today
I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I was shocked by how much worse it is today
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40232005
Thu 11 Dec 2025 00.00 EST
I had not planned to write anything about my trip to the West Bank last month. But I changed my mind when I witnessed how much daily life for Palestinians had deteriorated, how dispirited they have become and how much control Israel and its settlers now exercise over the Palestinian population. I had expected conditions for Palestinians would be worse, but not this much worse.
At the end of the second intifada, there were, according to the UN, 376 checkpoints and barriers in the West Bank. Today there are an estimated 849, many of them erected in the last two years.