As U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a plan to end the Gaza war and floated a path to Palestinian statehood, Ashraf Samara watched bulldozers near his West Bank village erase his hopes for the future.

Surrounded by armed security guards, the Israeli machinery shoved aside earth to create new routes for Jewish settlements, carving up the land around Samara’s village of Beit Ur al-Fauqa and creating new barriers to movement for Palestinians.

“This is to prevent the residents from reaching and using this land,” said Samara, a member of his village council.

He told Reuters the move would “trap the villages and the residential communities” by confining them exclusively to the areas they live in.

With each new road that makes movement for Jewish settlers easier, Palestinians in the We

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