As Israeli bulldozers demolish their homes, West Bank Palestinians are losing hope [Video]

Jaber Dabbaseh sits upon a pile of dust-strewn rubble.

“We feel oppressed, let down by a world that claims to be humane, while it does nothing,” the father-of-five says. The ruins once formed his family home in Khalet al-Daba’a in the West Bank, before his village was almost entirely demolished by Israeli bulldozers.

A crippling 2025 for Palestinians in the West Bank has seen 14 children among 80 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the north of the territory alone. In late May came a hammer blow when Israel announced that 22 new settlements had been approved. Far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich warned Israel would “not stop until the entire area receives its full legal status and becomes an inseparable part of the State of Israel,” a lucid illustration of the aggressive pro-settlement policies of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

On Thursday 5 June Palestinians marked Naksa Day, a commemoration of the forced displacement of around 300,000 Palestinians during the June 1967 …