Speaking to Al Jazeera, Bashir Abu-Manneh, a professor of post-colonial literature at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom, said an increase in violence in the occupied West Bank during the war shows larger aims of Palestinian “erasure”.
“Settler terrorism is happening in the West Bank where the Palestinian Authority is dominant, not Hamas, but the same kinds of practices are continuing – hundreds of people being killed by settler terrorism, which is dispossessing the Palestinians on an ongoing basis,” Abu Manneh said.
At least 302 Palestinians have been killed in a mix of settler and Israeli military attacks in the occupied West Bank since October 7, accounting for the majority of the 510 Palestinians killed in the territory this year.
“What Israel has managed to do in the last 74 days is to try to convince the world – to give themselves the legitimacy – to turn all Palestinians into terrorists that they can kill,” Abu-Manneh said.
“This is a fundamental part of their settler colonial project. The best way to describe what Israel is doing is in a sense a permanent war on Palestinian society in order to take over Palestinian land and territory.”
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