Since the beginning of 2012, Israeli occupation forces have demolished 465 Palestinian-owned structures in the West Bank and displaced about 676 Palestinians in the process, bringing the average rate of Palestinians displaced up to 18 per week, according to a new United Nations report.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Jerusalem found that up to 2,618 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli forces during demonstrations protesting this constant dispossession of Palestinian land and the general brutality of military occupation.
There has not only been an increase in Palestinian displacement of late, but also an increase in the number of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.
The number of Jewish settlers that the Israeli government has incentivized to live on Palestinian land has tripled since 1993 to more than 342,000 at the end of 2011, according to the Associated Press. That number does not include some 200,000 Jews living in East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed from the Palestinians in 1967.
All of this settlement building is illegal under international law, which prohibits the forced transfer of civilian populations and forbids military occupiers from transferring any of its population to settle into the occupied area.
Another recent report by the United Nations concluded the Gaza Strip will be unlivable by 2020 unless measures are taken to alleviate its suffering economy and people, which is primarily a result of a harsh Israeli blockade and successive Israeli military attacks on the strip.
Despite these severe violations of international law and human rights, the Obama administration continues to be supportive of Israel. The US has provided Israel with almost $17 billion in direct aid since Obama was elected in 2008 and the US is consistently blocking resolutions in the United Nations which call on Israel to abide by the law.
I cannot understand how the world can allow this to happen "america" whoever called it the great satan knew what they are saying who allows the zionist to inflict such savagery on other humans.
Just imagine for a moment that the US government were patriotic and nationalist and that it actually defended our borders and expelled the illegal invaders in our midst. Just imagine that scenario and think about who the loudest defenders of the invaders would be. I'll bet they would be the same people who are Israel's chief apologists and defenders.
History and our descendants will wonder in shock how we did nothing in the face of these inhumane acts by two inhumane countries.
Only 18? I honestly thought it was worse based on the way them Zionist pigs are demolishing, stealing, pushing, grabbing and terrorizing those poor people. But at least that's a tangible figure with which to demonstrate who wants to wipe whom off the map and push them into the ocean.