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        Gaza, an intensifying ethnic cleansing campaign is ramping up in
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                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-top: 0;"><span>With
                        an undeclared war with Hezbollah in the north,
                        the ongoing slaughter in Gaza in the south, and
                        the anticipation of a retaliatory attack from
                        Iran, it’s easy for the accelerating seizure of
                        Palestinian land in the West Bank to be
                        overlooked. Up close, it can’t be missed. The
                        saga of Alice Qaysiya’s family and friends, who
                        are fighting to hold on to their Bethlehem home,
                        is the story of just one family and one
                        property, but it’s also so much more, as you’ll
                        find in this report below by </span><a
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">my colleague Murtaza
                        Hussain</a><span>. </span></p>
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                      Murtaza’s new article:</p>
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                      Forces Shot an American Activist Defending
                      Palestinian Land From Seizure</h4>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">By
                      Murtaza Hussain</p>
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style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-family: 'SF Pro Display', -apple-system-headline, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;">As
                      the Qaysiya family, friends, and activists walked
                      up to the family land, the IDF created a blockade
                      and ordered them to go back. They refused. The
                      army would not let them pass, declaring it a
                      closed military zone. A standoff ensued. The image
                      on the right is proof of ownership of the
                      property. Photo courtesy of Combatants for Peace
                      and the Qaysiya family.</h6>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><strong>Alice
                        Qaysiya's family</strong><span> property in the
                        West Bank city of Bethlehem once hosted not just
                        their home but a restaurant they had built. That
                        was before settlers vandalized and demolished
                        it. Now it is </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/33718628-03ba-437f-ae30-4f97ef8fd2ae?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">home to a makeshift
                        campground</a><span> the family guards fiercely.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">While
                      the world's attention drifts from the assault on
                      Gaza, the rapidly accelerating seizure of
                      Palestinian land in the West Bank continues in the
                      hidden background, reshaping conditions on the
                      ground and pushing a political settlement to the
                      conflict further away.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">The
                      Qaysiya family isn't leaving without a fight, and
                      their determined stand has drawn the support of
                      some Israelis and Western activists, who are now
                      putting their bodies on the line to slow the
                      rampage of Israeli settlers.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">The
                      Qaysiya family has gone to court numerous times to
                      try and assert legal protection over the property,
                      only to see those claims ignored on the ground by
                      settler activists guarded by Israeli soldiers. The
                      settlers recently began arriving on her family
                      property with weapons as part of the confiscation
                      effort. Drop Site News put together the following
                      account based on interviews with the Qaysiya
                      family and witnesses to the stand-off, backed up
                      by video of the resulting violence.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">“This
                      is the last green area in Bethlehem and they are
                      planning to take it. We have been sleeping here in
                      tents since they demolished our house, but we
                      cannot leave since we know that if we do they will
                      take it from us,” Qaysiya told Drop Site. “They
                      took advantage of the war, while the media was
                      busy, and they thought if they did this now it
                      would not create media pressure.”</p>
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                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">A
                      number of representatives from the group
                      Combatants for Peace, a mixed group of former
                      Israeli and Palestinian
                      combatants-turned-solidarity-activists have
                      attempted to physically block settlers from
                      displacing the Qaysiya family from their property.
                      In recent days armed soldiers have arrested
                      demonstrators or physically coerced them off the
                      site. Meanwhile, more settlers have arrived, who
                      have vandalized the Qaysiya's remaining property,
                      including a statue of the Virgin Mary owned by the
                      family that was found smashed at the site.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">In
                      videos from the property shared with Drop Site,
                      groups of settlers, guarded by IDF soldiers, can
                      be seen mocking the family and activists who have
                      come to defend them, while trying to break into a
                      gate surrounding their land.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">The
                      war in Gaza has drawn the bulk of international
                      attention in the Middle East since it began last
                      October. Yet the conflict has also triggered a
                      more intense campaign of violence and displacement
                      in the West Bank, where Israeli settlers, often
                      supported by the military, are waging a campaign
                      to drive out Palestinian landholders by force and
                      expand their footprint over territory allocated by
                      international law to a future Palestinian state.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Palestinians
                      in tents are little obstacle for Israeli settlers,
                      but the addition of Western solidarity activists
                      to the mix has heightened the global stakes of the
                      confrontation. An American passport, however, is
                      no protection from violence at the hands of the
                      IDF or its settler allies.</p>
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                      Qaysiya. Photo courtesy of Combatants for Peace
                      and the Qaysiya family.</h6>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Last
                      Friday, Amado Sison, an activist from New Jersey
                      with the solidary group Faz3a, joined fellow
                      demonstrators near the West Bank village of Beita.
                      In an interview with Drop Site after being
                      discharged from the hospital, Sison said he was
                      taking part in a “protective presence” exercise
                      aimed at defending Palestinian citizens living in
                      the West Bank from settler and military violence.
                      “The Palestinians were holding a rally and doing
                      chants, when Israeli soldiers at a nearby outpost
                      started shooting tear gas and aiming weapons at
                      us," said Sison. "This was only my second
                      demonstration, but some of the more experienced
                      demonstrators shouted that live rounds were being
                      fired and everyone began to run."</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Sison
                      and others ran from the gunfire into a nearby
                      olive grove. It was then that he felt a “blunt
                      impact” in the back of his leg. He initially
                      thought he had been hit by a tear gas canister. It
                      turned out to have been a live bullet, which
                      entered his thigh and exited from the front of his
                      leg. In video of the incident taken by Anthony C.,
                      an activist with Faz3a, and provided to Drop Site,
                      a group of protesters and local Palestinians can
                      be seen screaming as they attempt to carry a
                      wounded Sison to safety after the shooting.</p>
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                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Jonathan
                      Pollak, an Israeli volunteer who was at the scene
                      of the shooting, described it as an unprovoked
                      attack on fleeing protesters by IDF soldiers. “The
                      soldiers attacked with tear gas and concussion
                      grenades, before moving on to live ammunition,”
                      Pollak said. “They chased the demonstrators into a
                      nearby olive grove, which is where Amado was shot.
                      He was hit in the back of the thigh. He was shot
                      while his back was to the soldiers.”</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Pollak
                      and another group of activists carried Sison over
                      500 yards to a pickup truck which evacuated him to
                      a hospital in the West Bank city of Nablus.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The
                        shooting incident was just one of many violent
                        attacks in Beita, where where Pollak says that
                        over 17 people have been killed since 2020. This
                        June, the Israeli government reportedly </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/b4f9c5b5-5be8-45cd-be96-4145aba7e8cf?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        to settlers to repopulate an illegal settlement
                        outpost on the territory under protection of the
                        IDF after it had been evacuated in 2021.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>“It’s
                        an awful thing to happen to anyone,” Pollak said
                        about the shooting of Sison. “He’s also an
                        American citizen. If he is shot like that just
                        imagine the level of violence being employed
                        against Palestinians.” Since October 7, over 500
                        Palestinians have been </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/696a22b2-68ac-4f29-82e7-8b5abec20926?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">killed in the West Bank</a><span>,
                        with thousands more wounded, as a campaign by
                        Israeli settlers to seize territory there
                        accelerates against the backdrop of the war in
                        Gaza.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">"We
                      are aware of these reports involving a U.S.
                      citizen in the West Bank and are in contact with
                      local authorities to gather more information," a
                      State Department spokesperson told Drop Site in
                      respond to a request for comment on Sison's
                      shooting. "We are greatly concerned when any U.S.
                      citizen is harmed overseas and work to provide
                      consular assistance. We reiterate our advice to
                      U.S. citizens to reconsider travel to the West
                      Bank. Over the past few months, there has been an
                      increase in extremist violence and military
                      activity. Due to privacy considerations, we have
                      no further comment."</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">After
                      being shot, Sison was treated and discharged from
                      the hospital in Nablus. He was lucky: The bullet
                      that struck his thigh, a dangerous place to be
                      shot, did not hit any major arteries or bone.
                      While unable to put pressure on his leg, he is
                      able to walk with the aid of crutches and is
                      expected to recover from the incident.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>In
                        a </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/5728d461-b2f6-4550-b9b7-6b813086174e?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">statement</a><span> about
                        the shooting reported in the Israeli press, a
                        spokesperson for the IDF stated that troops had
                        “used riot dispersal means and fired live rounds
                        in the air to disperse” a “gathering” in the
                        area near the settlement outpost. The statement
                        added that,“a report was received regarding a
                        foreign national who was accidentally injured by
                        the riot dispersal means and was evacuated to
                        the hospital.”</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>A
                        number of Americans have been killed or wounded
                        by the IDF in recent years, including both
                        Palestinian citizens living in or visiting the
                        West Bank, and U.S. activists like Sison.
                        Earlier this month, the U.S. government
                        announced that it </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/b4be9a91-5ac5-466e-9ae6-f7c35b1c1a18?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">would not pursue</a><span>
                        Leahy Act sanctions against an Israeli military
                        unit, the Netzah Yehudah battalion, implicated
                        in the death of an elderly Palestinian-American
                        man, Omar Assad, who died after being bound and
                        left exposed to the elements by soldiers from
                        the unit. Two Palestinian-American teenagers,
                        Mohammad Ahmad al-Khdour and Tawfic Abdel
                        Jabbar, have also been killed in separate
                        shooting incidents by the IDF in the West Bank
                        since the start of this year.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The
                        U.S. government has taken some halting steps in
                        recent months to sanction particularly violent
                        settler leaders. The sanctions </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/759763ad-787a-4f21-82b0-2df7e41aca7f?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">stop some individuals and
                        groups</a><span> associated with the most
                        extreme fringe of the settler movement from
                        accessing the U.S. financial system, while also
                        targeting selected "outposts" in the West Bank
                        for blacklisting by banks. The Biden
                        administration, which is </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/d717d610-ee0b-44f9-9289-7f5bb224eb3e?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">being sued</a><span> over
                        the sanctions by pro-settler groups in the U.S.,
                        has hinted that these limited sanctions measures
                        could theoretically expand in the future to
                        target more of the settlement enterprise.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">But
                      analysts say that at present these polices are not
                      nearly enough – especially as the settler movement
                      is no longer a fringe but now backed directly by
                      powerful Israeli government officials, including
                      the current Israeli Minister of National Security,
                      Itamar Ben-Gvir.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">"The
                      permission structure that allows these kinds of
                      attacks comes from the most senior ranks of the
                      Israeli government. Ministers like Itamar Ben-Gvir
                      and [Finance Minister] Bezalel Smotrich have made
                      no secret of their support for annexing the West
                      Bank and their backing of settlers who aim to do
                      so through piecemeal violence, home by home," said
                      Sara Haghdoosti, Executive Director of Win Without
                      War, a DC-based foreign policy advocacy group. "It
                      is good that the Biden administration has created
                      and used tools to sanction people responsible for
                      settler violence in the West Bank, but it is not
                      enough. The longer Ben-Gvir and Smotrich continue
                      receiving tacit US support, the more right wing
                      settlers will see their attacks as being well
                      worth the small cost they’ve paid thus far."</p>
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                    <h6
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                      courtesy of Combatants for Peace and the Qaysiya
                      family.</h6>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>For
                        his part, Sison says that despite being shot by
                        the IDF while attempting to resist the
                        settlement project, he will not be deterred from
                        participating in future protective presence
                        actions aimed at defending Palestinians from
                        violence. He brought up numerous recent cases
                        where Palestinian children have been able to use
                        playgrounds and farmers have been able cultivate
                        their lands thanks to the presence of foreign
                        and Israeli volunteers acting as a buffer
                        between Palestinians, settlers, and IDF
                        soldiers. These efforts have often come at great
                        personal risk to the activists themselves, who
                        are frequently </span><a
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                        soldiers and settlers operating under their
                        protection.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>While
                        President Biden has </span><a
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">promised</a><span> U.S.
                        retaliation for violent attacks targeting
                        Americans elsewhere in the region, there has
                        been near radio silence over a steady drumbeat
                        of violence incidents that have affected U.S.
                        citizens in the West Bank at the hands of the
                        Israeli military or settler groups. That
                        selective interest and concern by the U.S.
                        government over violence targeting its own
                        citizens has frustrated Sison.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">“Biden
                      has said that if any U.S. citizen is attacked, we
                      will respond,” he said. “Yet there have been
                      multiple times now where this hasn’t been the
                      case.”</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">The
                      violence in the West Bank looks set to escalate,
                      as international attention remains focused on the
                      war in Gaza and fear of the conflict spreading to
                      Lebanon and Iran. That distraction has proven to
                      be a boon for the settler movement, which has also
                      been emboldened by support from powerful members
                      of the Israeli government.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Qaysiya,
                      the Bethlehem resident under threat from settlers,
                      said she fears that it is only a matter time
                      before they are forced to give up property that
                      they have held in their family for years. Even
                      children have gotten involved.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-bottom: 0;">“There
                      are young settler kids also coming who are only
                      around 12 years old with knives and guns,” Qaysiya
                      said. “It is really something shameful that these
                      settler organizations are using these kids,
                      telling them they will be rewarded and taking
                      advantage of them.”</p>
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