Beatings, threats at gunpoint and fleeing in terror: Inside the most aggressive West Bank land grab in 50 years

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3. If you try to use Google maps to find this, you need to go to a goofball transliteration.

"Wadi as-seeq". (I agree with the "as-" part, that's just a clearcut assimilation rule; but "seeq" is odd.)

Bedouins are their own special issue in Israel. They pick up and settle where they like. They're like Irish Travelers, except they figure any unoccupied territory is a fine place to move to--perhaps for a month, perhaps for a decade.

The guy shown in a 'tent' is in an olive grove ... one that he probably didn't plant.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/West_Bank_Access_Restrictions_June_2020.pdf says it's in a "nature preserve," which just means that the land is subject to use limitations (which are well defined but completely unknown to me).

The Guardian article compares summer 2023 to summer 2021. I'm more curious about '22. Lion's Den was founded then and really engaged in some serious stirring of the proverbial fecal stew. I've half a mind to consider it the "cause" that prompts an "effect." Then again, that Lion's Den had pups.