A live press briefing was held Wednesday in Ras Ein al-Auja, a Palestinian community in Area C of the occupied West Bank, where community members, human rights lawyers, and humanitarian workers addressed what they describe as an escalating campaign of settler violence and military complicity that is forcibly displacing entire communities from their homes, lands, and livelihoods.

The briefing follows a series of developments highlighting the growing pressure on Palestinians across the West Bank. On Wednesday, Israeli forces placed mobile housing units in Tel Rumeida, Hebron—reportedly in the H1 area, which is officially under the Palestinian Authority’s administrative control. Issa Amro, coordinator of Youth Against Settlements, told Al Jazeera this marks the first such incursion into H1 and called it a dangerous precedent.

Settlers have been storming Palestinian neighbourhoods in H1 over recent days, further heightening tensions.

Elsewhere in the southern West Bank, Israeli forces stormed the village of Al-Tabaqa, south of Dura, arresting more than twenty Palestinians, including an elderly man.

Also on Wednesday, Israel’s military confirmed receipt of additional bulldozers from the United States. These shipments had reportedly been withheld by the Biden administration since November due to concerns that the equipment was being used to demolish homes in Gaza.

The combination of settler expansion, military infrastructure buildup, and arrests is seen by observers as part of a broader strategy to create conditions so untenable that Palestinians are compelled to leave.

Al Jazeera.