West Bank: Israeli settlers were hit with sanctions which left them unfazed and emboldened

As the war rages in Gaza, a less publicized conflict broils in the West Bank.

Israeli settlers continue to colonize Palestinian hilltops. Some have been hit with international sanctions over accusations of attacks and harassment against Palestinians.

23 year-old Elisha Yered is one of them. Like other targeted by the sanctions, he says the measures are at most, an annoyance. “Anyone who thinks this will break us is mistaken. We’ve survived harder things than this.”

In a makeshift clubhouse on a hilltop near the settlement of Maskiot in the northern West Bank,…