‘There are no dreams here’: How Israel’s outgoing gov’t remade the West Bank
from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Nov. 1, 2026
Among the outgoing government’s most consequential feats over the past four years has been its transformation of the West Bank — the subject of a new report by Shatha Yaish, Oren Ziv, and Basel Adra. Expanded land seizures, military restrictions, mass displacement, and over 100 new Jewish settlements have reshaped an already fragmented territory, and the very fabric of Palestinian life.
Nowhere was this transformation clearer in recent days than in the West Bank city of Hebron, where Netanyahu has been turning displacement into an election spectacle. As resident Issa Amro wrote, after an attack on Israeli soldiers on Oct. 23, Israel expelled 4,000 Palestinians from the city in four days — destroying many of their homes and engineering a new reality that locals fear will become permanent.
