“The village we had been protecting has already been destroyed, and the 120 families who lived there for the past 60 years have scattered in all directions. But the ethnic cleansing does not stop, and we are needed elsewhere. I spent the night at the home of a family that posts guards every single night in case settlers come to burn their houses down, and I spent the day at another family’s home that is suffering abuse. Their neighbors have already fled. Not far from there, on Tuesday, settlers arrived with a bulldozer to a neighborhood on the outskirts of Jericho and began dismantling 13 homes, some of which were completely destroyed. Just like that, in the middle of the day—a residential neighborhood, dozens of settlers, a bulldozer—demolishing the homes of Palestinians who have no idea where this is coming from and are afraid to resist,” wrote human rights activist Yair Oren in a Facebook post. Another day in the occupied West Bank. | Editorial | Weekly Summary | Feb 15, 2026