Israeli settlers storm West Bank village, setting cars and homes ablaze
Israeli settlers storm West Bank village, setting cars and homes ablaze
The attack by hundreds of armed Israeli settlers on Friday left at least one person dead according to local officials, and was one of the largest such attacks this year, according to Palestinian officials.
It's estimated that between 1,000 and 1,200 settlers surrounded the village, and around 500 stormed it just after midday local time on Friday, blocking all the roads in the area.
According to Abu-Alia [head of the village council], the Israeli military arrived at the scene at around 3 p.m. local time, but did not stop the settlers from attacking the village. Instead, Israeli soldiers allowed them to raid homes, prevented Palestinian residents from moving around and blocked ambulances from reaching the injured, he alleged.
Israeli security forces had informed Palestinian officials that the settlers were looking for an Israeli teenager who had gone missing earlier in the day.
Armed Israeli Settlers are terrorists. Killing innocent civilians and destroying their property to further their political agenda.
Seems like a pretty clear cut case of terrorism to me.
What does it take to drop the word Terrorists?
Terrorist means you're waging war with the West without spending a lot of money.
Damn
US would have to switch sides first for that to happen. No ally of the US is a terrorist.
important note - the west bank is not gaza and Hamas has never been in charge in the west bank. the only thing that makes this lynch mob feel justified in its violence is the race of its victims, and the only thing that makes them feel confident they'll get away with it is that the state of Israel sent armed men to protect them while they carry out their terrorism. This makes Israel an openly-racist terrorist state.
It's not a lynch mob. It is a genocidal onslaught for capturing land. This is not some emotional reaction. It is a decade lasting strategy of ethnic cleansing carried out by state supported Israeli militias, often directly aided by the formal Israel army in an occupied territory.
We only now get more attention to it, because of the 07. October, but this has been happening for decades and it only ever got worse over the years, because the US and western allies have actively endorsed this. They endorsed this by saying that this is illegal and shouldn't happen, while singing off on the next billions of military aid and arms deals.
no, this specific event is a lynch mob, the general situation is a genocide
All the people daring the MSM to call them “terrorists”…
Maybe we should just remind the public how bad the word “settler” is: These are state-armed violent militias whose explicit goal is to displace the indigenous occupants of foreign territories.
Terrorists at least tend to emerge in response to (real or perceived) political disposession. That is not the case here. The settlers are the most privileged class in Israel, rewarded for breaking international law.
And we should probably also remember that oppressors always have legitimate grievances to cite when you question what they’re doing. Nobody ever says “We’re invading this land cuz we want it” in the moment.
State sponsored terrorists? It's not like blowing up cars and burning homes bring a calm mind to the people's who own the cars and houses...
Wait, there are people upset they didn't go to terrorists? Well, of course there are, but I was shocked a CNN article even used settler, for the points you made. It specifically invokes taking from the people there to benefit themselves, which I didn't expect CNN of all places to do.
Hey now that's antisemitic
The whole Region has just been a cycle of terrorism lately
Terrorists, both the settlers and the IDF.
Why is no one talking about the last part where it all happened because a teenager got abducted? These comments are weird.
Collective punishment is a war crime.
Punishing random members of an entire ethnicity is not helpful and only screws over Israel in the long run. These extremist settlers are making coexistence impossible and that’s intentional since they are the group in Israel who are most opposed to any two state solution.
Well for starters it might be because there's zero proof that Palestinians had anything to do with it. Even if (and again it's IF) Palestinians had something to do with it, that's not justification for what happened. Finally, this is just another instance of the increased settler violence in the West Bank (not Gaza), which has seen over 460 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire since Oct. 7th.
Because this part is more shocking? I think if the last 6 months has taught us anything it's possible to retaliate to something so extremely that everybody ends up thinking you're the asshole.
To spell it out: this was a very extreme reaction to the problem, mainly harming innocent people which is playing out against the backdrop of what seems to be a genocide.
Ah yes, the best way to search for missing people: by shooting up am entire village that ended up having nothing to do with the boy!
Because it's not a valid justification for attacks like this. That's the rhetoric nazis used against jews.
Proportionality
Fuck israel.. fucking terrorists. Genocide victim descendants commiting one of their own. Fuck israel.
I'm afraid we've reached the point of no return for Gaza. Israeli settlers are exploiting Oct 7 for maximum effect and are aiming to settle all of Gaza. I really hope the US withdraws all support soon before Joe is fucked. I bet this is not the legacy he wants to leave before he retires.
You are correct, but this particular event isn't even happening in Gaza.
I think we've reached the point of no return for Palestine as a whole without serious international intervention.
Agreed. But some damage to Joe's reputation is already done in my opinion. While I must hold my nose and vote for him, I will always know him as Genocide Joe. This genocide is now his legacy in my eyes.
Honestly, this whole situation in Israel is fucked. But it's a track that's been laid down by decades of US policy and the influence of money in politics. Biden is the unlucky president who inherited a millennium of hate that has come to a head. If he tried to stop it, the Israel lobbies and Zionists would destroy him and ensure a Trump victory. This country is so strongly intertwined to Israel and its interests that we cannot separate from them. Notice how Congress is doing fuckall to stop us arming the side committing genocide while also perfectly happy to deny arms to a friendly nation that was invaded and is being destroyed.
US policy is fucked by the greedy bastards at the top who pull the strings.
You do not need to vote for Genocide Joe. There are several candidates who have condemned the genocide from the beginning. No issue is more important than genocide.
Joe is fucked. I bet this is not the legacy he wants to leave before he retires.
probably too late for that
This year I learned that Israelis are inhumane genocidal monsters and should be treated as such.
The settlers, yes. Generic Israelis, no. The settlers have all but shed their "innocent civilian" status. But there are legitimately a lot of innocent civilians still that are not the enemy.
The IDF and settlers are absolutely genocidal monsters that should be treated as terrorists and dealt with accordingly though, I totally agree.
Generic Israelis are largely in full support of this. The settler terror has been going on for decades. It was continued by every Israeli government. It doesn't matter if Likud and other fascists, or centre or centre-left. Every Israeli government in the past 30 years was voted to continue this.
The Israeli people as a whole bear full responsibility for this. As is always pointed out, Israel is "the only democracy in the Middle East". If that is true, then the majority of voting aged Israeli citizens is fully responsible for the settler terrorism.
Only those that speak out against it showed that they do not want to be complicit in this. And these are the Israeli people belittled, systematically silenced and accused of being "antisemitic" in western countries. They deserve our full support and highest respect.
Not all of them, but the IDF and government are abominable.
I genuinely have no problem with people who fight back against their oppressors by any means necessary.
I agree with everything except the last four words. The ends do not always justify the means.
Yeah there's a reason that we have Geneva conventions. Some things are unacceptable, even in war
Nah, we stop at rape and killing babies. That goes for both sides.
And they wonder what sparked attacks from Iran, why people in Jordan keep trying to burn down their embassy. Israel as a whole needs to oust Netanyahu or else they will deserve what is coming to them.
Who's to say he doesn't have support? I'm genuinely not sure he can be removed.
He's already demonstrated very clearly that he cannot be peacefully removed, he went to trial for corruption starting in 2016 and decided he was immune in 2020-2021.
Protest by Israelites are not uncommon by any means. Israel markets it's ability to control narratives online to other countries, but news of dissent has still spread far and wide. Here is an image of Israelites holding up signs comparing Netanyahu to Pablo Escobar
Even some of the Irsaeli military officials are distraught over the situation
Anat Arbel, a reservist in the Israeli army who holds the rank of major, came down hard on Netanyahu.
“This government is fighting us,” he said.
Many blame the current government admin for refusing to reach a ceasefire or hostage negotiation for the 129 known hostages, and 12 hostages have been killed in Isreali Strikes. I say all of this because there is some, however small, opposition in Israel and there is a potential future where Israelites take back control of this situation and walk away minimally scathed.
UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/38/17 (22/11/1983), page 186:
"2. *Reaffirms *the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for their independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, *apartheid *and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;
3. *Reaffirms *the inalienable right of the Namibian people, the Palestinian people and all peoples under foreign and colonial domination to self-determination, national unity and sovereignty without foreign interference;"
Source: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/un-general-assembly-resolution-38-17-november-1983
You know what this sounds like? Anyone ever heard of the Tulsa massacre?
Waiting outside the prison just foaming at the mouth at the chance to kill those they think of as lesser. Those that can be easily blamed for any and all issues.
I am so fucking done with humanity.
Whoa lets hope the people in the West Bank don't do anything back that would be terrorism and gives israel the right to defend themselves! Get ready to condemn everyone in the West Bank!
I wonder why we can't just decode the term 'settler' for what it is:
"terrorist", but with state aegis and pliant media cooking up anodyne narrative cover
Israel clearly chose the Policy Card that gives Settler units an Attack value of 5.
Thats one entitlement program that can definitely go
fucking rats
Gaza should announce they plan to launch air strikes and demand that israelli civilians move to southern israel, where they also plan to bomb. If assholes are going to murder you anyway, at least remind them they’re assholes.
It's a yearly tradition.
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Quo vadis Israel? Like what the actual fuck?
It's especially sickening that the IDF not only just let's this happen, but participates/helps it along. If it was just a civilian mob that would be bad enough, but official support makes it functionally official policy. Breaking the Silence, a site that collects testimonials from IDF vets about what really happens in OPT, has one testimony that says, "The mission there is not to maintain order; the mission there is to enforce Jewish supremacy in the city of Hebron. It’s not that we soldiers are between a hammer and an anvil, [but rather] we are the hammer being hurled at the Palestinians by the settlers."
Genocide Joe supports this
It makes almost zero sense to call him genocide joe on its own, but in this case it's obvious there is no thought behind it at all and this has just become the knee jerk response any time Israelis do anything.
finally a actually good source and not the ever-same aljazeera propaganda
thank you, OP
Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that they found that teenaged Israeli lad dead, could it?
Oh they found him dead, and was there a speedy trial of the entire village in absentia that afternoon? Dark parallels to mass lynching of black people in the Jim Crow south.
I know right? Only a few months ago, a teenager from down the street was found dead, so we went to the neighborhood over and burned it to the ground, killing every man woman and child, and the cops came and just kind of watched. now we sit around drinking coors light and and talking about how cool its going to be to go to hevean where the coors light never gets cold
Did the whole town kill the kid? Then maybe you could word that differently.
