Emma Graham-Harrison

And Israel has elections later this year that I think are going to perhaps provide some answer to that because there are people in the current government who are in the cabinet who are very clear that they want to annex the Occupy West Bank, that a lot of what they're doing now is with the specific aim of preventing the

the creation of a Palestinian state.

They want to go back into Gaza.

They want to set up settlements there.

And, you know, in a couple of months, the elections have to be held by October.

They and other leaders are putting that vision to the Israeli public and we'll see what they decide.

But certainly at the moment, there are large sections of the Israeli establishment that support what's going on.

I mean, you can see that in the fact that

When you talk about impunity, no Israeli has been indicted for killing a Palestinian in the Occupied West Bank since an attack in 2019.

So that's this entire decade.

There's a couple of people who've been arrested, but none of them have been charged.

So every Palestinian who was killed since 2019 in the Occupied West Bank, there has been no legal accountability for any of those deaths.

So, you know, there's two sources of potential change to behavior.

There's internal domestic pressure inside Israel and external pressure.

We're seeing this really unprecedented increase in domestic pressure inside Israel over violence.

by settlers and soldiers in the occupied West Bank.

And it'll be interesting to see whether that affects what's happening there.

We saw last week when there was a soldier who attacked a statue of Jesus in Lebanon, that international pressure can be brought to bear very rapidly and with a great impact.

But unfortunately, when it comes to Gaza, that the situation in Gaza just does not seem to be a priority for governments around the world who are concerned about the war in Iran, the impact of higher oil prices on cost of living and inflation and things like that.

So certainly at the moment, we see a lot of condemnation, but very little in terms of practical steps that might mean an improvement.