Introduction: Israeli Settlements in the West Bank

Abstract

This special issue of Omran brings together contributions produced within a joint research project between the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) and the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS). The project was carried out by MAS’s research team, in collaboration with external scholars, under the academic supervision of the ACRPS. The issue responds to the urgent need to move beyond fragmented treatments of Israeli settlement policies by advancing original, in-depth Palestinian analytical approaches. Collectively, the contributions seek to offer a comprehensive understanding of settlement expansion, its interconnected dimensions, and its multifaceted costs across the economic and social spheres of Palestinian life.