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I’m tremendously grateful to Palestinian American journalist Dalia Hatuqa for coming on The Debrief today and sharing an incredible wealth of information, insight, and experience with us regarding the perverse and deteriorating situation in the occupied West Bank. Dalia splits her time between the Ramallah in the West Bank and Jordan, and spoke with us while visiting family in the US.
Trigger warning: Please be advised that we spoke about torture and sexual violence toward the end of the podcast.
The topics Dalia and I spoke about included:
Settler violence at an “all-time high”: How state-backed settler violence is spreading geographically, intensifying, and replacing demolitions as a key tool for displacement, land grabs, and annexation
Palestinian Authority being pushed to the brink of collapse: Israel’s illegal “financial stranglehold” (withholding over $5 billion of Palestinian customs duties it owes to the Palestinian Authority), its impact on the West Bank, and what could happen if the PA collapses
Largest mass displacement in the West Bank since 1967: Israel’s military operations against refugee camps in early 2025 — and how residents of camps in Nur Shams, Tulkarem, and Jenin have not been permitted to return home
Palestinian Americans in the West Bank: How their American citizenship provides no protection or privilege and the US government does not help as they suffer from settler violence and movement restrictions
Mistreatment and torture of Palestinians held in Israeli detention: Dalia shared details based on interviews with released Palestinian detainees
Outlook for change after Israeli elections: Dalia shared her own thoughts and the sense of Palestinians in the West Bank regarding whether a new Israeli government would fundamentally alter the situation in the occupied West Bank
What did you learn from this podcast about the situation in the West Bank? What struck you most about what Dalia shared? What do you wish more people knew? I’m looking forward to hearing from you in the comments.
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