Listen 0:00 / 0:00 − 1.0x + Default ReadyThe events unfolding in the occupied West Bank can no longer be understood merely as a succession of settler attacks or isolated outbreaks of violence. READ: Israeli occupiers establish new settlement outpost in northern West BankOver recent weeks, the West Bank has witnessed a particularly alarming acceleration of this process. International organisations have documented a sharp increase in settler attacks, the destruction of Palestinian property and the displacement of entire communities, particularly in Area C of the occupied West Bank. As long as settler attacks, settlement expansion, military protection and forced displacement continue to operate in concert, the line separating episodic violence from a sustained policy of colonisation becomes increasingly blurred. Failing to recognise this dynamic risks acknowledging only in retrospect a historical process whose defining features are already visible across today’s occupied West Bank.