A history of the Israeli settler movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

This will be the cornerstone of Netanyahu’s refusal to accept a Palestinian State – Peter

Since the October 7 attacks on Israel, much of the world’s attention has been focused on the war in Gaza.

But another kind of conflict has also been flaring nearby.Listen to the podcast Rear Vision puts contemporary events in their historical context, answering the question: “How did it come to this?”

For more than 50 years, Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory have grown in both size and number, especially in the West Bank.

Many Palestinians there now live alongside Israeli settlements and the relationship between these two groups is fraught.

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, instances of settler violence — violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied territory — have been on the rise.