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.
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.
Lots of tankies/leftists in the Fediverse :(
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.
I don’t understand? Didn’t someone go missing?
That’s the most recent case that provoked this latest pogrom, but Settlers have been attacking Palestinian towns for years. The Israeli Supreme Court ruled that settlers don’t have to be punished equally as Palestinians for the same crimes.
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.
This isn’t Gaza and the people who did 10/07 do not have a presence here. Call it what it is - ethnic cleansing.
20% of Israeli citizens are Palestinian Arabs and practicing Muslims. Your comment makes no sense.
Yes and the ruling government openly is racist to them and excludes them from government jobs. It’s called apartheid.
False. A significant number of these Palestinian Arabs are members of the IDF, and there is no second-class citizenship in Israel. The Israeli government also does not prohibit employment based on race, ethnicity, or religious affiliation. Calling Israel “apartheid” is a tankie talking point and is observably and patently false. Do better.
Where did all those other Palestinians go?
What does it take to drop the word Terrorists?
A violent riot is not the same as terrorism.
That’s interesting that a thousand “settlers” are rioters but those on Oct 7th are terrorists.
Oct 7th was an organized invasion of Israel by Hamas, a known terrorist organization. They also entered Israel with the express and sole purpose of killing as many Jews/Israelis as possible. The rioters in the West Bank didn’t go there to kill people by all accounts. If they had, there would be more than just a single death.
The settler rioters were not terrorists by that definition, because they were not trying to accomplish a political aim, they were angry and lashing out because islamic terrorists from the West Bank kidnapped and killed (?) a 14 year old child.
Terrorist means you’re waging war with the West without spending a lot of money.
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.
They are state sponsored terrorists.
So you would call the Black Lives Matter/George Floyd rioters terrorists then?
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.
It’s more attacks from shills and foreign powers who want Trump to win.
I want Jill Stein to win. Also to be able to sleep at night knowing I did not consent to genocide.
You’re consenting with all 3 choices, that’s the fun part
Join a radical militia if you actually give a fuck
Not true, I’m expressing democracy by voting for a candidate that has decent polices.
You’re being a useful idiot without a long term plan.
Its the opposite, nice projection. You’re a useful idiot for capitalist Dems and have no plan to change that because you consent to it.
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!
