Ramallah, occupied West Bank – “Either arm us or protect us,” an elderly man fervently told Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh in the village of Turmus Aya in the occupied West Bank hours after hundreds of Israeli settlers carried out a vicious attack there last week. The same day, another resident of Turmus Aya interrupted an Al Jazeera Arabic live …
GIVAT HAREL, West Bank — One day in the fall of 1998, Shivi Drori, a young farmer fresh out of the Israeli army, brought three trailers to a rugged hilltop deep in the occupied West Bank and began to plant raspberries. It was an unauthorized settlement in the heart of territory claimed by the Palestinians, but Drori, now 49, said …
