Israel has rejected claims that Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are violate international law.PHOTO: DANIEL BEREHULAK/NYTIMES

How Israel’s settlement surge in the West Bank is displacing Palestinians

· The Straits Times

RAMALLAH, West Bank – For two decades, Mr Muhammad Abdulrahman, 58, lived with his wife and his beehives on a remote hillside in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

But in May, Israeli settlers set up camp about 183m away and took control of the road leading to Mr Abdulrahman’s home, blocking him from returning, he said. Israeli soldiers then evicted him and his wife, Ms Suha Abdulrahman, the couple said.