For today, links to two reports: from Middle East Eye and the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (Scroll down for WEST BANK 12-2-25 — and for today’s GAZA, UKRAINE and LEBANON entries.) — MCM

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Israel to build wall deep inside West Bank that ‘accelerates annexation,’ by Lubna Masarwa and Huthifa Fayyad | Middle East Eye  JERUSALEM —  The Israeli army is preparing to erect a new separation wall deep inside the occupied West Bank, in what experts warn is a dangerous redesign of Palestinian geography to advance de facto annexation. Haaretz first reported on the planned barrier. READ MORE . . .

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FROM DEC. 2  Photos capture olive harvest as villagers fear more violence by Israeli settlers, by Leo Correa | AP  TURMUS AYYA, West Bank — The olive harvest that was marked by violence is complete in the West Bank, but fear still hangs over many Palestinian villages, where residents keep constant watch for armed Israeli settlers. In recent months . . . Click HERE for more text and a dozen or so photographs by Correa.

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