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Kedumim road and seizures
On January 28, a woman in a rental car sits in the Kedumim settlement as gunshots from Kufr Qaddum ring out and the rumble of army vehicles comes from the Palestinian village a few hundred meters to the west of the settlement.
The article traces Kedumim’s origins to 1975, when the Gush Emunim settlers reached an agreement with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Defense Minister Shimon Peres to found a new settlement in compensation for marginalization from the territory they had invested in at the Sebastia railway station.
It says the road Nahlah Street was used by Palestinian residents of Kufr Qaddum to access Nablus, but that a stretch of the road about two kilometers long has been closed to Palestinian residents of Kufr Qaddum for two decades.
The piece also describes how the cumulative area of seven allocated enclaves and noncontiguous zones is 3,300 dunams [330 hectares], while settlers claim the community sits on about 6,000 dunams [600 hectares].
It adds that Kedumim today lies entirely on Kufr Qaddum lands that the army has 'donated' to the settlers, beginning with Israeli army publishing 'temporary military seizure orders for security needs' between 1970 and 1978 that expropriated more than 450 dunams [45 hectares].
West Bank war and displacement
In the occupied West Bank, Chronique de Palestine says Israel has intensified its 'counter-insurgency operations' over the past two years to 'fight Palestinian terrorism,' and argues that the violence of settler militias, demolitions, and roadblocks and checkpoints aims to create conditions modeled on Gaza.
The article says that in 2025 the Israeli military offensive has driven the largest campaign of mass displacement since 1967, with nearly 50,000 Palestinians forcibly expelled from their homes.
It adds that at least 70 percent of Jenin’s roads were bulldozed and that the majority of water pipes and sewage networks were destroyed in Jenin and Tulkarm within a few weeks, resulting in economic losses of several million dollars.
The piece describes a large-scale operation in al-Khalil (Hebron) under a pretext of restoring public order, with the entire city placed under curfew and Israeli tanks patrolling the streets.
It also says each week, on average, nine Palestinians are killed, 88 others wounded, 180 arrested, about a dozen tortured during on-site interrogations, and about 100 attacks by Israeli settlers, 300 raids and military assaults, and 10 demolitions of Palestinian homes and property.
Road blocks and attacks
WAFA reports that Israeli colonists on Sunday evening blocked Al-Mu'arrajat Road, which links the cities of Jericho and Ramallah, and attacked Palestinian vehicles traveling through the area.
“In the occupied West Bank, Israel has mobilized all its military and colonial means to make life impossible for Palestinians”
The agency says local sources told WAFA that colonists closed the road to traffic and assaulted a number of passing vehicles, disrupting movement and causing fear and concern among residents who rely on the route on a daily basis.
It adds that the attack disrupted traffic flow on one of the main roads connecting the central West Bank with the Jordan Valley, amid ongoing assaults by colonists against Palestinian citizens and their property.
The article frames the incidents as part of an escalation in colonist attacks, including road closures and assaults on vehicles and residents, often carried out under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
It concludes that the Al-Mu'arrajat area and its surroundings have witnessed an escalation in colonist attacks, with the incidents coming amid a broader increase in colonist violence across various governorates of the occupied West Bank.
