Situation in the West Bank

Yara Hawari

Inserted 6 hours ago

“While the Gaza ceasefire is a positive step the danger to the occupied West Bank from an Israeli invasion continues to rise. It's brought about a huge amount of relief that the bombardment will stop, but I think crucially the ceasefire does not mean an end to the occupation neither in Gaza or the West Bank. So people are under no illusion that this means an end to Israeli control over their lives. I think people are pessimistic as to whether the ceasefire will actually hold because they know the Israeli regime is already trying to sabotage it. The situation in the occupied West Bank remains as precarious as ever. We saw a year of genocide in Gaza go unchecked so the big question is could they do the same in the West Bank? I'm afraid without accountability measures the answer is yes.”

Aje

Senior analyst with Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network

20 Jan 2025 6 3

Marwan Bishara

Inserted 2 months ago

“The war in Lebanon is becoming more costly to Israel, which may be looking to draw the conflict to a close by obtaining security guarantees in southern Lebanon. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said earlier that there had been certain progress” in talks about a ceasefire in Lebanon, but Hezbollah said it hadn't received any peace proposal yet. What they mean is that in the talks with the United States and others, perhaps the Lebanese government, there were some steps forward but nothing that can yet be presented to Hezbollah. In the process of dividing and occupying the Gaza Strip, the big prize for Israel is not Gaza. It's the West Bank. The appointment of Yechiel Leiter, who lives in the Gush Etzion settlement, as the next Israeli ambassador to the US signals the Netanyahu government intends to work with President-elect Donald Trump to expand Israeli settlements. Netanyahu is dreaming of the West Bank, and he could even barter some sort of agreement in Gaza in exchange.”

Aje

Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera

11 Nov 2024 11 4

Bezalel Smotrich

Inserted 2 months ago

“The only way to remove this danger from the agenda is to apply Israeli sovereignty over the settlements in Judea and Samaria. I have directed the start of professional work to prepare the necessary infrastructure to apply Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria [the West Bank].”

Aje

Finance Minister of Israel

11 Nov 2024 4 1

Guy Shalev

Inserted 3 months ago

“There are more than 20,000 Palestinians who await medical evacuation in Gaza who can't be treated there and can't get out. Only several hundred have been allowed to leave since May. In the occupied West Bank, the organisation is working closely with Palestinians to document settler violence and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities while trying to assist prisoners. Access is very restricted. For instance, the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] has not had any access to any Israeli prison in the past year, which is a dire violation of prisoners' human rights and of international law. We're getting a lot of medical requests that we can't fully address because of the sheer amount and scale of violations. We're now trying to address the needs of people who weigh just 40kg and are in very bad health conditions after long months of not getting proper medical care and nutrition.”

Aje

Executive director of Physicians for Human Rights Israel

11 Oct 2024 9 2

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Inserted 3 months ago

“In Gaza, not only are children dying, but also the United Nations system. The values the West claims to defend are dying, the truth is dying, and the hopes of humanity to live in a more just world are dying - one by one. I am asking you bluntly here: Are those in Gaza and the occupied West Bank not human beings? Do children in Palestine have no rights? Just as Hitler was stopped by the alliance of humanity 70 years ago, Netanyahu and his murder network must be stopped by the 'alliance of humanity'.”

Aljazeera

Turkish President

24 Sep 2024 6 5

Alon Pinkas

Inserted 4 months ago

“I don't believe there is a plan for Israel to annex a wide swath of the West Bank. This government is intent on weakening the Palestinian Authority. With this [West Bank] operation, Israel is weakening the Palestinian Authority to the point that there's not going to be anyone to negotiate with, and that is the grand plan that the government has. Mr Netanyahu is doing something very problematic here, very ominous here, in that he is creating a situation, an environment in which further negotiations with the Palestinians three, four, five years from now would probably be impossible because of the weakness and fragility of the Palestinian Authority.”

Aje

Former ambassador and Consul General of Israel in New York

31 Aug 2024 3 2

Mustafa Barghouti

Inserted 4 months ago

“The ongoing Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank is not just raids … it's an act of war. What Israel is doing is conducting a war on occupied people which is a total violation of international law on how an occupying power should behave. They are using air strikes, air force, tanks, bulldozers, and what they are trying to do is to transfer the actual genocide and ethnic cleansing ongoing in Gaza into the West Bank. The amount of damage Israeli forces inflicted on the Palestinian territory's infrastructure also indicates their goal to make it uninhabitable for its citizens. They destroyed water pipelines, electricity lines, houses, schools - what do they want? They want to create a situation where we cannot live in our country and that is exactly what the settlers' plans are about. It's about Judaization of the West Bank, about annexing the West Bank and killing any opportunity for the Palestinians to be free and to have a state of their own.”

Aje

General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative

28 Aug 2024 8 2

Bezalel Smotrich

Inserted 5 months ago

“No anti-Israeli and anti-Zionist decision will stop the development of settlements. We will continue to fight against the dangerous project of creating a Palestinian state by creating facts on the ground.”

Aje

Finance Minister of Israel

14 Aug 2024 4 2

Hassan Barari

Inserted 5 months ago

“Israel is intensifying its violent raids in the occupied West Bank and attempting to shift the status quo of East Jerusalem, including Al-Aqsa Mosque, as the world's focus remains on the Gaza war, said. [Settlers] think that is a kind of a golden opportunity, that the region is in turmoil and the government is the [most] extremist in history … and they want to exploit this in order to change the status quo [of] the mosque. The international community is either complicit or indifferent to what is happening in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Western leaders issue empty condemnations with little action. Israel feels it has impunity to do whatever it wants in the West Bank.”

Aljazeera

International affairs professor at Qatar University

13 Aug 2024 5 3

Israel Katz

Inserted 5 months ago

“We must address a terrorist hub like the Jenin refugee camp by temporarily evacuating its residents to a secure location and thoroughly dismantling the terrorist infrastructure within the camp, as was done in Gaza.”

Aje

Israeli Foreign Minister

11 Aug 2024 2 2

Bezalel Smotrich

Inserted 5 months ago

“Stopping the Arab takeover of the open areas, fighting the terrorist financing of the Palestinian Authority and its leaders and complete Israeli control of the territory [the occupied West Bank]. This is the only way.”

Aje

Finance Minister of Israel

05 Aug 2024 3 1

Jeff Halper

Inserted 6 months ago

“Palestinians, when they get a demolition order, which is approved by the court, they can go to the court but they lose 100 percent of the time. [But] their houses will be demolished and so they have a draconian choice: either the Israelis will demolish their house which means bringing out police, bringing out bulldozers and so on which costs a lot of money, or the court will make a deal of so called self-demolition with the family and they'll say look, if we don't have this expenditure your house is going to be demolished, you're going to get a fine. The fine can be about $20,000, but the courts argue that if the family demolishes their house, the fine will be reduced by half. There are thousands of cases like these. It's routine oppression.”

Aje

Director of the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions

20 Jul 2024 3 1

William Schabas

Inserted 6 months ago

“This is an extremely strong ruling. It includes Western judges, judges from the United States, judges from Germany, judges from Australia. [The US and UK] love lecturing other countries about - one of their favourite phrases is the 'rules based international legal order' … Now the International Court of Justice, by an extremely compelling majority, has said what the rules are, and they're going to have to start respecting them. [The advisory ruling] is not just directed against Israel. It's directed against Israel's friends, and it's telling them that they cannot contribute in any way to the settlement policy, to the continued acts of violence and persecution in the occupied territories.”

Aje

Expert in international law

19 Jul 2024 9 2

Volker Türk

Inserted 7 months ago

“The situation in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is dramatically deteriorating. 528 Palestinians, 133 of them children, were killed by Israeli military forces or settlers from the start of the current war on Gaza in October to June 15, in many cases raising serious concerns of unlawful killings.”

Aljazeera

UN high commissioner for human rights

18 Jun 2024 6 3

Bezalel Smotrich

Inserted 7 months ago

“We will turn you [residents of the Palestinian areas of Tulkarem, Nur Shams, Qalqilya and Shuweika] into ruins like in the Gaza Strip if the terror you are perpetrating on the settlements continues.”

Aje

Finance Minister of Israel

30 May 2024 6 1

Christian Wagner

Inserted 8 months ago

“We view the latest outbreaks of violence with great concern. Of course, this also applies above all to the violence that comes from extremist settlers. Israel, as the occupying power in the West Bank, has of course the duty and task to ensure security there, within the framework of the applicable law.”

Aje

German Deputy Foreign Ministry spokesman

22 Apr 2024 6 3

Jamal Rushdi

Inserted 9 months ago

“War crimes committed by the Israeli occupation on a daily basis in Gaza should not cover up what is happening in the West Bank. The imposition of sanctions by some countries on a number of colonists represents a small, late step that is insufficient to halt such attacks.”

Aje

Spokesperson for the Arab League Council’s Secretary-General

15 Apr 2024 6 2

Itamar Ben-Gvir

Inserted 9 months ago

“Defence Minister Gallant's decision to evacuate and destroy buildings on the Gal Yosef farm, where 14-year old Benjamin Achimeir was murdered, even during the week of shiva [mourning], represents terrible obtuseness, moral confusion, security folly and a violation of the dignity of the dead. Instead of establishing and approving more farms and expanding Jewish settlements, we surrender to the enemy. The time has come for the prime minister to consider replacing Minister Gallant.”

Aje

Minister of National Security of Israel

15 Apr 2024 4 1

Dalal Salamah

Inserted 10 months ago

“All Israeli violations in the West Bank and East Jerusalem must also cease, and a political framework that leads to an end to the occupation must be reached. This framework must be based on a two-state solution, and this requires coordinating with Arab and regional powers as well as the international community, including the US and the European Union.”

Aje

Member of Fatah’s Central Committee

10 Mar 2024 4 2

Volker Türk

Inserted 10 months ago

“The West Bank is already in crisis. Yet settler violence and settlement-related violations have reached shocking new levels, and risk eliminating any practical possibility of establishing a viable Palestinian state.”

Aje

UN high commissioner for human rights

08 Mar 2024 3 2

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“The only way to remove this danger from the agenda is to apply Israeli sovereignty over the settlements in Judea and Samaria. I have directed the start of professional work to prepare the necessary infrastructure to apply Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria [the West Bank].”

“No anti-Israeli and anti-Zionist decision will stop the development of settlements. We will continue to fight against the dangerous project of creating a Palestinian state by creating facts on the ground.”

“We must address a terrorist hub like the Jenin refugee camp by temporarily evacuating its residents to a secure location and thoroughly dismantling the terrorist infrastructure within the camp, as was done in Gaza.”

“Stopping the Arab takeover of the open areas, fighting the terrorist financing of the Palestinian Authority and its leaders and complete Israeli control of the territory [the occupied West Bank]. This is the only way.”

“We will turn you [residents of the Palestinian areas of Tulkarem, Nur Shams, Qalqilya and Shuweika] into ruins like in the Gaza Strip if the terror you are perpetrating on the settlements continues.”

“War crimes committed by the Israeli occupation on a daily basis in Gaza should not cover up what is happening in the West Bank. The imposition of sanctions by some countries on a number of colonists represents a small, late step that is insufficient to halt such attacks.”

“The West Bank is already in crisis. Yet settler violence and settlement-related violations have reached shocking new levels, and risk eliminating any practical possibility of establishing a viable Palestinian state.”

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