How Israel’s ‘Blue Line’ team seizes Palestinian land in the West Bank

Al-Mughayyir, occupied West Bank – As the October olive harvest approaches, Bilal Abu Alia stands near his home, gazing at his family’s land – territory he says Israeli authorities have taken from his family in the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah.

Of their original 0.4sq km (100 acres) of land, Bilal explains that his family can now only access a small...