In one week, a new settler outpost erases a Palestinian community

On the morning of May 18, Israeli settlers established an illegal outpost inside the Palestinian shepherding community of Maghayer Al-Dir in Area C of the West Bank, just 100 meters from residents’ homes.

By midweek, before any violent confrontations or incidents of livestock theft, about half the Palestinian villagers had packed up their belongings and fled, with the rest preparing to do the…