RAMALLAH, West Bank — July 27, 2026 — The notice arrived without warning, a terse military order delivered to the municipality of Deir Dibwan, a town of some 7,000 people east of Ramallah. Its language was cold and bureaucratic, but its meaning was unmistakable: the Israeli military was seizing privately owned Palestinian land to carve a new road through the hills, a road that local officials and anti-settlement watchdogs say will serve not the declared purpose of security, but the relentless expansion of nearby Israeli settlements.