Loui Ridi, from Ohio, whose home has been besieged for more than a week, demanded Israeli forces remove them from his property. But on his first day back at his home, he was told to go back inside because the area was a closed military zone.
If the podcaster Hasan Piker had tweeted this, with Israelis as the subject rather than Palestinians, it would be front-page news.
A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society behaves this way,” one said, “that society is doomed.”
The pressure that displaced Konah’s family reflects a broader pattern affecting Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian-American Loui Ridi speaks to Prem from his home in the occupied West Bank, which has been surrounded by settlers for weeks while Israeli soldiers and the U.S. government largely sit by.
Killing continues in Gaza – both slowly and quickly ■ Settlers wreak even more havoc in West Bank, Netanyahu forced to condemn it when Americans are attacked
Israeli forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank early Wednesday, breaking into homes, damaging property, and abducting many Palestinians, including a woman and a person with a disability. An illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizer also abducted two siblings near Nablus.
If Americans knew how Israel treats Palestinians (and sometimes American citizens) on a daily basis – with our tax dollars – they would not stand for it. Here is a brief summary of Saturday’s news.
“Settlers shoot, attack, and expel Palestinians from their land, and the state provides the weapons, the legal cover, and the budget to do it.”
Israeli police reportedly allowed settlers raiding the site on Sunday to perform group prayers. The decision to officially permit such a provocative act marks a significant shift.