The video leaves no room for doubt: Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives, smashing their cars and beating a 53-year-old woman with a club.
Eyewitnesses say Muhammad al-Halaq stood with his arms folded, posing no threat, when a single, deadly shot was fired. The soldiers later appeared to celebrate. The IDF said the incident is under review
Israeli military restrictions and over 150 settler attacks in the past two weeks have prevented many Palestinians from harvesting this year’s crop.
‘The army stood by,’ write journalists who see themselves as opponents of the occupation, saying the IDF ‘has the legal and moral duty to protect Palestinians,’ but the army cannot protect those whom it is oppressing.
Israeli settler militias, backed by soldiers, are laying waste to Palestinian communities – beating residents, torching crops, smashing cars, slaughtering animals.
The rapid increase in illegal Israeli settlers, along with Israel-induced economic collapse have brought the occupied West Bank to its knees in the past two years.
Netanyahu officially approved a settlement plan last week, and announced his intentions to greenlight other settlements just like it. Together, these plans would end the West Bank as a geographic and political entity.
Armed settlers, backed by the Israeli military, forcibly took over 50 acres of privately-owned Palestinian land in Masafer Yatta in the West Bank – an area featured in the Oscar-winning documentary ‘No Other Land’
As far as Major General Bluth is concerned, he has no obligation to defend anyone in the West Bank other than the thugs from the settlement outposts.
More than 100 organizations advocate for the freedom of a 16-year-old dual Palestinian-American citizen detained by Israel for more than six months.