New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- Annexation theatrics collide with daily survival from Jenin to Hebron as Washington tries to hold a shaky line.

Ramallah, West Bank - On Day 688 of the Israel Palestine Conflict, a tentative quiet settled over Jenin's battered alleys while lawmakers in Jerusalem weighed maps that could follow a Gaza ceasefire. Across Washington, officials sharpened their language. In the span of hours on Friday, October 24, 2025, warnings, walk-backs, and late-night votes converged into a single message for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank: the next phase may be decided elsewhere, even as their towns brace for what many fear could be a new campaign of raids and arrests.

In conversations from Jenin to Nablus, residents describ...