PALESTINIANS have condemned an Israeli court decision that paves the way for the mass eviction of thousands of residents of a rural community in the occupied West Bank.
On Wednesday a judge ruled that eight villages in Masafer Yatta, a rocky, arid area near Hebron, could be demolished after more than 20 years of legal wrangling.
The court said that the Palestinians were not permanent residents when the Israeli army first declared it a firing zone in 1981.
A small Palestinian village is under attack from illegal settlers and the Israeli state to forcibly extend their illegal settlements. It is a template for the future, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
Labour's Emily Thornberry calls on PM to ban goods from Israel-held Palestinian territory
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES



