On 17 October 2017, Israel announced plans to build more than three-thousand new settlement units throughout the West Bank, including in Hebron as well as the establishment of a new settlement to accommodate the settlers evacuated from the Amona outpost in February 2017. This past week also marked the establishment of a unity government between Fatah and Hamas brokered by Egypt. In this segment, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat joins I24 to discuss these latest developments. In response to the correspondent’s suggestion that Israel is building settlements in the West Bank to protect itself from Hamas, Noura explains, “That makes absolutely zero sense. Settlements endanger the lives of the settlers themselves and is actually a violation of international law because you cannot use civilians as human shields.”
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