Anas Samir, a 42-year-old father of four, cuts a dejected figure as he sits smoking outside the shop where he sells groceries in the Palestinian town of Al-Eizariya, just outside Jerusalem.

He has spent years watching bits of land Palestinians had hoped might one day be part of an independent state being lopped off in service of Israel's decades-old settlement enterprise.

The latest impacts him personally.

Last month, he and dozens of others along the main entrance to the town were notified by the Israeli military that demolition orders would soon be enforced.

"All this will go," he said, referring to plans recently approved by the Israeli government to expand the neighbouring Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Adumim in the direction of Jerusalem.

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