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‘Underreported silent war’ on the occupied West Bank: UNRWA chief

The occupied West Bank is experiencing its most severe displacement since 1967 with more than 1,000 Palestinians – almost one-quarter of them children – having been killed since October 2023.

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), said tens of thousands of people remain displaced a year after the launch of Israel’s “Iron Wall” military assault.

“Attacks by Israeli settlers continue unabated with Palestinian communities being constantly intimidated, uprooted + their livelihoods ruined,” said Lazzarini.

“While global attention has been focused on Gaza, the flagrant disregard for international humanitarian law in the West Bank has been normalized.”

Since beginning its genocide in the Gaza Strip in October 2023, the Israeli authorities have intensified their crimes in the occupied West Bank particularly through demolitions, forced displacement, and settlement expansion.



‘Israeli Society Has Become Completely Genocidal' - B'Tselem Head Yuli Novak


In this latest episode of Beyond Israelism, Simone Zimmerman sits down with Yuli Novak, Executive Director of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, and one of the most uncompromising dissident voices within Israel. Yuli reflects on her journey from an upbringing shaped by patriotism and belief in Israeli democracy to a painful reckoning with what she now calls an apartheid regime — and with the conditions that enabled mass complicity with genocide.

Yuli revisits her years leading Breaking the Silence — a group of former Israeli soldiers that documented abuses under occupation — which became the target of an all-out smear campaign involving government officials, mainstream media, legal harassment, and infiltration by right-wing groups. Today, as head of B’Tselem, Yuli explains why the organization chose to name Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide in its report ‘Our Genocide’.

Beyond Israelism with Simone Zimmerman is a provocative new video podcast series from Tikkun Olam Productions, the team behind the viral and award-winning 2023 film Israelism. In this series, Simone hosts bold and inspiring conversations that face, head on, the growing global reckoning with Zionism, the debates over Jewish identity, and the urgent struggle for Palestinian freedom.