Long before the war between Israel and Hamas erupted on October 7th, the inhabitants of Zanuta, a Palestinian village in the arid hills of the occupied West Bank, had grown used to attacks by Jewish settlers. But in the weeks after the outbreak of the war, the violence hit such levels that the 140 villagers decided they had no option but to leave. “Life became hell,” says Faris Samamri, a 57-year-old farmer who fled to nearby Shuweika, recounting how settlers beat members of the isolated herding community, burst their water tanks, blocked their roads, and terrorised their livestock. “We were...