Palestinians Displaced Despite Israeli Citizenship
Jillian Kestler-D'Amours writes on the latest developments on Palestinian residents of Susiya and Al-Araqib.
SUSIYA, West Bank — Dozens of beige tents built of wooden planks and aluminum siding are affixed to the hilltop. Children play on a plastic slide set up haphazardly next to one of the tents amid water tanks and tractors, tires and discarded toys on the rocky ground.
Across the valley, the unmistakable red roofs of an Israeli settlement with a gated entrance and tree-lined streets stand in stark contrast. The only thing the two neighboring communities — one a Palestinian-Bedouin village, and the other an illegal Israeli settlement — share is a name: Susiya.
What’s even more striking is that less than an hour away, on the Israeli side of the Green Line, which separates the occupied West Bank from Israel proper, the landscape looks eerily familiar.
