Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has acknowledged that Israeli occupation forces had forcibly displaced around 2,000 Palestinians from their homes in Hebron (Al-Khalil), awhile the assault on the city continued. Speaking to Israeli public broadcaster KAN, Katz said residents would not be permitted to return until what he called “Hamas infrastructure” in the city had been dismantled. According to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, Israeli troops took over homes in Khallat Manna and Dahiyat Al-Zaytoun in southern Hebron, converting them into barracks. Occupation forces also expelled residents from homes in other neighbourhoods and used the properties as observation posts.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has officially proposed eliminating the national Roadless Rule. If finalized, the repeal would strip protections from 44.7 million acres of wild forest, The rule, passed in 2001, protects it from road building, logging, fossil fuel extraction, and other development. The current protections include 9.3 million acres of the Tongass rainforest in Alaska. The Tongass contains incredible landscape and is a vital carbon sink for curbing climate change. Opening it up would be yet one more crime against indigenous peoples, specifically the Tlingit and Haida Indigenous peoples whose homeland it is.
In India Maharashtra’s Western Ghats, Indigenous peoples say that Adani Green Energy and state-owned THDC India failed to secure consent for two proposed pumped storage projects. The developments could reportedly affect four villages and threaten forest rights and biodiversity. Elsewhere, villagers in Odisha have accused, an Adani Enterprises subsidiary, Kalinga Alumina, of using forged signatures and invalid village council resolutions to secure land for a bauxite mine. Residents allege that official documents falsely recorded unanimous consent, and included signatures attributed to deceased or fictitious individuals. These allegations reflect a broader pattern of land acquisition controversies by the Adani oligopoly as reported in this column GRAB.07.10.2026
Jewish settlers -an arm of the Israeli state in the West Bank, use sheep as a weapon of land theft and dispossession. The settlers send the sheep to graze on Palestinian land and then claim ownership of the land. Ownership that they enforce with violence. Extremely intimate bodily violence is administered by the settlers against Palestinians, who deliberately keep their hands behind their backs so as not to be accused of inciting or instigating violence. When the military finally intervenes to stop violence the Palestinians are still denied entry to houses that are legally theirs and that they were living in just a few months ago. The use of sheep In land grabbing has history. Brought to the Americas by Columbus sheep destroyed indigenous agricultural eco-systems causing massive indigenous peoples depopulation. In 19th century Scotland they were consciously used in the violent evictions of crofters and smallholders in the interests of capitalist aristocrats.