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.