Description
Israeli settler violence in the West Bank has become a defining feature of life under occupation, particularly in Hebron, where settlers live inside the urban core under heavy military protection. Palestinians in Hebron face daily intimidation, movement restrictions, and property destruction that gradually force displacement. This study aims to examine how Palestinians experience and interpret this systemic violence and how it functions as a mechanism of ongoing dispossession. Using settler colonial theory, the study conceptualizes settler violence as a structural instrument of domination rooted in a persistent logic of elimination. The research builds on recent scholarship suggesting that everyday harassment, spatial fragmentation, and military–settler coordination accelerate Indigenous removal. The project employs a qualitative, document-based approach, analyzing Palestinian testimonies from human rights organizations and spatial investigations from visual research collectives to identify recurring patterns of coordination, spatial control, and lived resistance. We aim to find that settler violence in Hebron is not an aberration but an infrastructure of elimination, an everyday machinery that rebuilds the city around absence, ensuring Palestinian displacement while normalizing colonial permanence. The study hopes to contribute to a deeper understanding of how spatial domination and daily violence sustain settler colonial control in occupied Palestine.
