Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article did not substantiate the claim that the escalation of armed drones in the West Bank is due to the specific influence of settlers; statements making this link, including in the headline text, have been removed.
NABLUS, West Bank—The drones made it hard to hear Dr. Abdel Rahman Musameh when he spoke to Foreign Policy at his office last November. Musameh, a psychologist at a Doctors Without Borders-run mental health clinic in this Palestinian city of 160,000, said his patients had been complaining about the noise ever since Israeli forces laid siege a month prior, instating a three-week blockade to crack down on a burgeoning militant movement in the northern West Bank.
