Palestinian families brace for expulsion as settlers erect outpost near West Bank village

Mohammed* sips coffee outside his small concrete home in the al-Shuneh cluster, framed by the sprawling Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank. But the energy abruptly shifts when a pickup truck kicks up dust and hurtles down the hillside: it’s Israeli settlers. He quickly ushers his guests toward the door, watching anxiously until the car passes into the distance. “The attacks are escalating,” the Palestinian man says, his young children cautiously peering out of the doorway of his family home. “There's this feeling of insecurity, living in this constant limbo.” Around 80 Palestinian families rely on the remote rocky hillside on the eastern slopes of the West Bank, overlooking the Jordan River.