There are 77 Israeli farms and shepherding outposts across the West Bank, part of an explosion in settlement growth in recent years
, the west side of the highway is full of straw-like grass despite the summer heat. To the east of the road, what can be eaten by sheep and goats is gone.
What was once seen as a pioneer lifestyle is now often very comfortable: some early settlements are now well established and wealthy, with security guards at the entrance and fences topped with cameras and barbed wire. TheA shelter on the Haroe Haiviri settler farm.According to Dror Etkes, a leading expert on Israeli land policy over the Green Line and founder of the NGO
Etkes spent three years interviewing Palestinian herders, observing changes over time in the grazing areas visited by Palestinians and settlers, and using aerial photographs to map out geographical features such as deep valleys and roads, which now often form the de facto boundaries of land appropriated by settler shepherds.
A block of cement with the inscription ‘Dangerous, firing zone’ near the Malachei Hashalom farm in the West Bank.“They are initially very violent in pushing the Palestinians out, but once they’ve established dominance, they are usually less violent. They feel entitled to the land, like they don’t need numbers or the army to keep them safe.”, with 450 attacks by settlers against Palestinians, and 160 attacks by Palestinians against settlers, recorded by the UN in 2021.
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