How Israel is using the war with Iran to accelerate its annexation of the West Bank – Mondoweiss

For three days, I was trapped in the area between three villages, no more than a ten-minute drive apart. At the entrance to each of the three villages, an actual iron gate blocked the road, quite literally caging in their residents. This was how Palestinians in the West Bank were informed of the new war that Israel started with Iran.

As soon as Israel launched its unprecedented attack, igniting the ongoing war between the two states, media attention shifted immediately away from…