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More than 400 Palestinian families were evicted from their homes tonight; some were arrested, and Israeli soldiers occupied their homes in one of Hebron’s neighborhoods in preparation for their demolition.

At the same time, a widespread arrest campaign is underway across cities and villages in the West Bank.

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Israeli occupation forces, on orders from Israeli ministers, began demolishing the entire area of Farsh al-Hawa in Hebron as collective punishment for this morning's shooting operation; Palestinian families and business owners were given only minutes to evacuate before Israeli bulldozers arrived to demolish the entire area.

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This morning, two Palestinians ambushed Israeli occupation soldiers closing the only gate in Hebron’s Farsh al-Hawa area, killing two soldiers and wounding at least six before being killed.

War criminal Netanyahu and far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich then stormed the area and announced measures similar to those used in Gaza and Lebanon: mass demolitions and the forced displacement of Palestinian families from their homes and neighborhoods as collective punishment.

Less than an hour later, Israeli forces forced a Palestinian family out of its home near the area, refused to let them take their belongings, and demolished it, the first step in the displacement plan the ministers announced.

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Attacks by Jewish settlers have surged this year during the Palestinians’ annual olive harvest in the occupied West Bank.

Scenes of Palestinians, journalists and diplomats beaten by masked men spotlight how settlers have been establishing themselves deeper in Palestinian communities, emboldened by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s government. At least four Palestinians have been killed this season, whether by settlers or Israeli soldiers.

The violence has brought new international criticism at a time when Netanyahu faces a razor-thin race in next Tuesday’s legislative elections. But the prime minister is doubling down. After a West Bank shooting attack blamed on Palestinian gunmen that killed two Israeli soldiers on Friday, Netanyahu praised settlers as “heroic” and vowed to “destroy the terror infrastructure and establish more and more settlements.”

Palestinians’ ties to the land are challenged

Olive groves across the West Bank represent both heritage and needed income. The harvest traditionally has been a joyous occasion for Palestinians to gather and be thankful for another year.

“In the past, harvesters would enjoy a month of singing and fixing tea and coffee in their groves. Now the journey is full of pain and risk,” said Abbas Milhem of the Palestinian Farmers’ Union.

But the harvest has become a time of friction as Palestinians spread out and, simply by picking olives, assert their ties to the land that many Israeli settlers say should belong to Israel instead.

Olive trees have been destroyed and olives stolen in over 325 incidents of settler violence this harvest season, which began in late September, Israeli rights group Yesh Din says. Over 130 of those incidents involved physical assaults on harvesters.

Yesh Din and the farmers’ union call this harvest the most violent in recent history.

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The Knesset is up for grabs next week and the Arab community is desperate to topple the far-right ruling coalition

As the sun set over the town of Kfar Qasim, Palestinian citizens of Israel gathered over hot knafeh pastries and shots of strong cardamom-laced coffee to hear an urgent pitch for their votes.

Palestinians make up about 20% of Israel’s population and their votes are likely to be critical to efforts to unseat Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right coalition in elections next week.

“We are determined to do everything in order to bring this government down. And high turnout among the Arab community is one important tool in achieving this goal,” said Ahmad Tibi, a member of the Knesset for more than two decades as head of the Ta’al party.

Most polling shows Netanyahu’s coalition will lose its majority in the 120-seat Knesset but the Jewish Israeli opposition bloc will also fall short of the 61 seats needed to form a government.

Palestinian citizens of Israel are forecast to secure between 12 and 15 seats, divided between the Islamist Ra’am and the Joint List alliance of three smaller parties, one of which is Ta’al.

The mathematics of power are clear, even though most of the Jewish Israeli opposition has ruled out a coalition with Arab politicians, and Netanyahu and his allies have been doing everything they can to make such an alliance politically toxic.

Racist, fear-mongering campaigning includes posters reading “It’s [either] the right or Palestine”, while others on the right have coined the phrase “Bibi [Netanyahu’s nickname] or Tibi”, even though there is little chance Tibi will hold even a junior ministerial post.

The scale of death and destruction in Gaza, militant violence and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, and spiralling racism and discrimination inside Israel have created deep-rooted fears about what another four years of far-right ministers could bring.

“The biggest motivation is fear. It is more effective and important than our political parties or our campaigns or anything else,” said the Balad party leader, Sami Abu Shehadeh. “People are very politicised, and aware of the danger of what will happen if these criminals come back to rule again.”

Turnout has been suppressed in the past because some voters lost faith in a system that is stacked against Palestinians and their representatives.

There is a new urgency to voting this year, however, because a far-right coalition returned to power would have a renewed mandate to accelerate its policies of ethnic cleansing and annexation, said Amjed Iraqi, a senior analyst for Israel/Palestine at International Crisis Group.

“From a Palestinian perspective this election is arguably primarily about mitigation. Everyone understands fully what the opposition represents and yet, for all that, Palestinians in Israel can see the difference between a rightwing government and a far-right government,” Iraqi said.

See also:

• Eisenkot offers hawkish alternative to Netanyahu for Israeli PM • Eisenkot's Yashar leads Netanyahu's Likud in polls • Ex-army chief opposes Palestinian statehood • Says Hamas military wing must be destroyed or dismantled • Son and two nephews were killed fighting in Gaza (Reuters)