{"id":559616,"date":"2026-07-26T00:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/559616\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:17:08","slug":"whats-behind-the-israeli-crackdown-in-the-occupied-west-bank-israel-palestine-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/559616\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s behind the Israeli crackdown in the occupied West Bank? | Israel-Palestine conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli forces intensify West Bank raids as settlers escalate attacks and settlement expansion accelerates.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military has stepped up its operations in the occupied West Bank, storming several Palestinian towns and villages. The government is also fast-tracking the expansion of illegal settlements and outposts.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Israeli settlers are intensifying their attacks on Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>This escalation is nothing new. But it comes just three months before general elections in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Opinion polls suggest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could lose power. Land grabs and accelerating the establishment of new illegal settlements sit well with his right-wing support base.<\/p>\n<p>How does the latest violence in the occupied West Bank serve Netanyahu\u2019s political ambitions?<\/p>\n<p>Presenter: Per Nyberg<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Alon Pinkas \u2013 Former Israeli ambassador and consul general in New York<\/p>\n<p>Sari Bashi \u2013 Human rights lawyer and executive director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel<\/p>\n<p>Mairav Zonszein \u2013 Senior analyst at the International Crisis Group, focused on Israel and Palestine<\/p>\n<p>Published On 25 Jul 202625 Jul 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share-nodes<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli forces intensify West Bank raids as settlers escalate attacks and settlement expansion accelerates. The Israeli military has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,44,47,43,45,48,9599,4055],"class_list":["post-559616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-occupied-west-bank","tag-palestine","tag-show-types","tag-tv-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}