Israeli leaders – including openly racist Ayelet Shaked – have been discussing strategies to slow Palestinian population growth. The Palestinian birth rate, higher than that of Israeli Jews, is a “threat” to the Jewishness of the state.
In what Palestinian officials called a “field execution,” Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians at a checkpoint Friday morning. The circumstances are unclear. In the last 5 months, Over 100 Palestinian men, women, & children and 3 Israeli soldiers have been killed.
Three recent stories from +972 Magazine contain firsthand accounts by Palestinians of their harrowing experiences at the hands of Israeli settlers – attacked while driving, harvesting olives, and protecting their own land. Israeli military complicity is a recurring theme.
On Tuesday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed 5 Palestinians and injured twenty-one, including four who suffered life-threatening wounds, during an invasion of the center of Nablus city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank… Soldiers also killed a 19-yr-old near Ramallah
Palestinian resistance leader Tamer Zeid al-Kilani, 33, was killed while walking in the occupied West Bank. He was a married father of a 2-year old son and a 5-month-old daughter…
Everyone was asleep. Israeli police pounded on the door, entered violently, beat a child who refused to undress in front of them. They took him, blindfolded and barefoot, to be interrogated for days or longer… For Palestinians, this is par for the course – even for prominent Christian families and students at the Quakers Friends School.
Israeli soldiers shot Rabi Arafa Rabi, 32, in the head. Rabi’s father says Rabi was just a construction worker trying to earn a living and was engaged to be married this coming Friday. Rabi is the 19th Palestinian killed by Israeli forces this month, half of them teens/children
An Israeli security official stated: “Older [Israeli] adults, women with children are also arriving and simply starting to go wild,” attacking Palestinians with impunity.
Israeli soldiers killed Salah al-Braiki, 19, with a bullet to the neck. His death brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israel since the beginning of 2022 to 175 – including 41 children.
Israeli settlers kidnapped & assaulted a 14-year-old girl for hours, then left her on the side of the road. When family members went to the Israeli police for help, they refused and attacked Nourhan’s uncle.