Armed, funded and openly endorsed by Israel's far-right government, settlers are terrorising Palestinians with impunityThe 50km journey from Ramallah north to Nablus in the occupied West Bank used to take an hour. Israeli checkpoints now mean it can take half a day or more.
It’s Friday morning and I’m on a bus full of students and young families going to stay with relatives for the weekend.
We swing left to join Highway 60, which runs along the ancient route from Hebron in the south to Jenin and Nazareth to the north.
In Ottoman times it was known as the “route of the thieves”, with robbers lying in wait for unwary travellers. Today the thieves are Israeli settlers.
Were Palestine to become its own state, Highway 60 would become a key piece of national infrastructure. But now every hundred metres or less is an Israeli flag.
