2022 was the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank since the United Nations started keeping records in 2005. As many as146 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank last year. But already this year, we are only half way through the second month of 2023 and Israel has already killed around 50 Palestinians in the West Bank.
Israel has also regularly bombed Gaza and now, with a right-wing cabinet in place, the situation is only expected to get worse. Israel’s far-right cabinet has approved the legislation for nine settler outposts in the occupied West Bank. All settlements are illegal according to international law, but who pays attention to international law in this occupied land?