A total of six Palestinians were killed by Israeli settler and military violence in the occupied West Bank on Monday.
Five Palestinians were killed by an Israeli military strike on a house in the Nur Shams refugee camp near the city of Tulkarm. The Israeli military claimed it targeted a militant camp, but the Palestinian news agency WAFA described the slain as civilians.
WAFA reported that two minors were killed in the Israeli strike: Adnan Jaber, 15, and Mohammed Ahmad ‘Elayyan, 16. The news agency said the killing brings the total number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli military and settlers since October 7, 2023, to 650.
Early Tuesday morning, the Palestinian Health Ministry said that Israeli settlers shot dead one Palestinian and wounded three others in Bethlehem.
Jewish settler violence in the West Bank has skyrocketed in the wake of October 7 as most of the attention has been on the slaughter in Gaza. Settlers have also been emboldened by the Israeli government, which includes extremist settlers who are committed to annexing the West Bank.
Settlers often attack and terrorize Palestinians with the goal of forcing them off their land with the tacit backing of the Israeli military, which rarely intervenes to stop the violence.
The settler violence has been so bad that some members of the Israeli government and security establishment have strongly denounced the attacks, including Ronen Bar, the head of the Israeli security agency Shin Bet.
Last week, Bar sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and focused his criticism on a group of Jewish extremists known as the Hilltop Youth. He said the actions of the settlers should be described as terrorism. “It isn’t crime because it’s the use of violence to create intimidation, to spread fear. That is terror.”
How do you say EXTERMINATION. The plan is to excise the West Bank, then work in toward Gaza, killing Palestinian men, women, children, babies, with survivors driven into the Sinai to live in tents and die.
Truly sad, indeed…
At one point, they wanted to make artificial islands and push Palestinians out to sea. I kid you not.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/artificial-island-plan-israel-katz_n_65af9e75e4b0d65b024def80
I found where the Israelis are learning all this evil. Somebody please delete this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_genocide_in_the_United_States
What is he number Israelis that have been killed by Palestinians terrorists coming from the West Bank area in 2024 alone?
You said 30 in another comment. And once again you called the Palestinians terrorists. Never mind the staggering numbers that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the real terrorists are the Israelis, you continue to side with them.
Good to see you read and learn from by comments.
Tim, it is you who does not learn.
Yes, I do. I learned that you're a moron who condones genocide.
Tim all the IDF killers fight civilians, mostly women and children. There are no military installations to bomb in Gaza,
only hospitals, schools, museums and basic infrastructure. Gazans have no army, only civilian resistance with limited weapons, they have no tanks, helicopters airplanes and 2000 pound bombs. Only Israeli IDF TERRORISTS in uniform and military weapons KILL PALESTINIANS. There is no real war, only the massacre of a nation by Israeli terrorists. On the WB the killers of Palestinians, are criminal settlers from NY.
Even main stream media is reporting these basic facts.
Not settlers… rather true Terrorists…!
It works both ways. The West Bank based Palestinians terrorists have killed 30 innocent Israelis this year alone.
Where were those Israelis at — in Israel, or elsewhere (for example, in the illegal occupation squats, aka “settlements”)?
The article did not give a breakdown. Are you saying that it is OK for Palestinians to kill Israelis if they are not on Israel soil? And of course you and I have a different definition of what is Israel. Is Jerusalem part of your definition of what is Israel?
The borders of Israel as recognized by the international community are those defined in UNR 181.
The Hague Court also recently opined that all areas occupied “pre-1949”need to be vacated as soon as possible.
just the facts Tim.
The 181 borders were obsolete the day the Arabs nations invaded the new nation of Israel, which was the first day. Once that invasion occurred things on the ground changed. The idea that somehow a 76 old resolution which has been ignore by all sides is going to magically become reality is just silly.
And that is the facts of life Peace.
The new nation of Israel was illegal from day one, the land did not belong to the UK & US to give away to anyone including the Zionist Israeli terrorists.
The new nation of Israel was illegal from day one, the land did not belong to the UK & US to give away to anyone including the Zionist Israeli terrorists.
Pluz – the widespread ethnic cleansing began long before the Arab militias countered. Might want to study these documents:
https://www.plands.org/en/home
I don’t think it’s OK for anyone to kill anyone else — but occupiers/trespassers are hardly blameless when they run into legitimate owners having already conducted themselves in a criminal and violent manner.
Israel’s borders were set in UNR 181 and remain the only internationally recognized borders to this day. Anything outside those borders is occupied territory — where war crimes are still impermissible, but resistance is entirely legal.
Holy shit, a whole 30! So, since Oct 7th, Israel has killed almost as many in the West Bank as Hamas killed on that day. Of course, Israel killed a good many of those on Oct 7th since they were using the same rules of engagement, kill anything that moves, at the music festival as they have used in Gaza. Now, add that ongoing genocide in Gaza and you have the unmitigated gall to call the Palestinians the terrorists. You are one sickening individual.
Somebody buys all the propaganda that the terrorists put out. The best one is that almost all the deaths on Oct 7 were caused by the IDF. You are so easily fooled.
You mean like the Israeli newspaper The Haaretz?
Haaretz: Israeli Officials OK’d Using Hannibal Directive to Turn Border Area on Oct. 7 into “Extermination Zone”
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/8/headlines/haaretz_israeli_officials_okd_using_hannibal_directive_to_turn_border_area_on_oct_7_into_extermination_zone
So, are you calling The Haaretz a terrorist organization? You are so easily a moron.
This latest, "30 innocent Israelis", is a bit of a ho-hum compared to your usual atrocity porn. Tell us more about the "40 beheaded babies" and "systematic mass rape", and beautiful little Liel Hetzroni'', burned so bad it took the forensic team weeks to identify the remains, and … .
The overwhelming attitude and policy in Israel is that, 'all Palestinians are terrorists by birth', due to the belief in collective and inherited sins as specified in the Torah and Rabbinical texts. If untrue, why the ongoing genocide supported by the majority of Israelis? There are none innocent in that belief system, so it's fair game in the minds who hold those beliefs.