Words and photos by Anna Blackshaw 

​As the eyes of the world have been on Gaza, violence in the West Bank has been escalating to near record levels.

According to a report by the United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNWRA), 40,000 Palestinians in the West Bank have been displaced by Israeli forces in just the first two months of 2025, making this the largest displacement of civilians since 1967. These forced removals occur alongside the highest rates of Israeli settler terrorism in the West Bank in over two decades.

Palestinian shepherds are attacked while grazing their sheep, families are chased out of their homes at gunpoint, homes and cars are set on fire, sewage is dumped into wells and springs, olive trees are burned down (at a rate of 25,000 trees in 2024 alone), and rampages through villages keep families on alert day and night.

by Micki Luckey 
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Microsoft has been a major partner in the genocide in Palestine, confirmed by documents leaked on January 23 that show it stepped up its supply of cloud support and AI for the Israeli military.

U.S. tech’s support for Israel is nothing new. But a new application of tech came to public attention on September 17 last year with the simultaneous explosion of thousands of pagers owned by Hezbollah fighters. They and the explosions in hand-held radios the next day were targeted by Israeli intelligence to decapitate Hezbollah, the only organized force that had defeated them in battle. Deployment of exploding personal communication devices can only be described as an act of terrorism.