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How Israeli settlement expansion is reshaping Palestinian life in the West Bank

For Ahmad Alrajabi, distance is measured by checkpoints. Every morning the Palestinian journalist scrolls through WhatsApp groups to track disruptions, to check which roads are open and where settlers are attacking. But even so, there are no guarantees. On the afternoon he spoke to Arab News he was in a cafe in Hebron. An hour earlier he had been covering a settler attack on a family home in Masafer Yatta. His mother had called him three times, as she does whenever he leaves his home. “We cannot