Israeli campaign of West Bank destruction moves on to region’s food basket

Arraba, occupied West Bank – As Kamal al-Uraidi drove a beat-up Volkswagen down the Arraba-Ya’bad road, an otherwise pleasant early September day was disrupted by the whirring clang of bulldozers and the snapping cracks of olive trees being ripped from the ground on both sides of the road.

The destruction stretched for kilometres: Whole fields of olive groves razed, structures r...