Settler Attacks (also see West Bank)
Updated 2024-07-30
The Shepherds Of The West Bank – Documentary Inside the settlers’ war on Palestine. Since October 7, 2023, with all eyes on Gaza, in the occupied West Bank the situation has tragically worsened. Over 400 Palestinians have been killed by security forces or Israeli settlers. Over 1,300 people belonging to herding communities have been expelled from their homes, while the Netanyahu government has proposed building over three thousand new homes in the West Bank settlements. The United States and Europe have sanctioned some of the most violent settlers. Reporting from the West Bank, RSI met Palestinian shepherds, Israeli peace activists and Israeli settlers, all protagonists of this other, painful chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. https://www.journeyman.tv/film/8650
Israel: Before The War – Documentary Support for Hamas soars in West Bank amid increase in violence. Settler violence in the West Bank is increasing in tandem with the war in Gaza. Yet before the latest war broke out between Israel and Hamas, 2023 had been the deadliest year for the occupied West Bank in 15 years. This recent ABC report investigates the escalating tensions of the past 12 months that form the backdrop to the current war. https://www.journeyman.tv/film/8556
The Settlers’ Billionaire Backer – Documentary The Israeli settler organization ELAD has been accused of evicting Arab families in Jerusalem. The Israeli settler organization ELAD has been accused of evicting Arab families in Jerusalem. With Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich unmasked as ELAD’s largest donor, this report investigates settlement funding. https://www.journeyman.tv/film/7930
2023-12-20 Palestinians flee villages as settler violence surges in West Bank amid war A Palestinian village school had been ransacked and a dozen houses nearby were abandoned. In some, a few belongings remained: a mattress and children’s shoes. This was Khirbet Zanutah in the West Bank which has been under Israeli military occupation for decades. In late October, its roughly 250 residents fled, packing up their homes, saying attacks and threats from Israeli settlers had become intolerable, according to villagers. “They said to us, ‘If you don’t leave, we will come in the night and shoot you all,” Faris Samara, who had lived in Khirbet Zanutah, told ABC News. “We had no choice but to leave.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/palestinians-flee-villages-as-settler-violence-surges-in-west-bank-amid-war/ar-AA1lKvxH
2023-12-14 How Israeli settler violence forces Palestinians to flee their homes Masafer Yatta, the most rural and desolate area in the West Bank, is home to about 1,000 Palestinians. The community are mostly herders who raise goats and sheep, and have steadfastly refused to leave their homes despite the mounting difficulties posed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers on the one hand and radical Israeli settlers on the other. But after weeks of intense settler violence in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October – and despite the decades-long fight to remain in their homes – these communities are now being forced off their land. Some have described it as “a new Nakba.” The Guardian’s Bethan McKernan travelled to Masafer Yatta and heard from Palestinian families how armed settlers – some in reservist uniforms, others covering their faces – have begun breaking into their homes at night, beating up adults, destroying and stealing belongings, and terrifying children. These West Bank settlements are illegal under international law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMYEHhCkedo
2023-11-15 This Is How AWFUL Israeli Settlers Really Are Comments from Viewers: Vaush is right, they just think non-Jews (or in this case, specifically the Palestinian people) are inferior and an obstacle in the way of their greater goal. It’s much easier to justify one’s behavior when you invoke divine right and vague ancestral claims. This woman is the embodiment of “I don’t consider you to be human so I won’t be guilty of murder if I kill you,” It‘s fascinating how you can belong to a people that has gone through some of the worst oppression and persecution… and still think oppression is ok, as long as SHE does it! This is genuinely the most shocking article I think I’ve ever heard. Discussing Israeli settlement activity in person is always such a chore because anyone taking the pro-israeli stance in a western nation will without fail default on antisemitism as a defense. Principled positions don’t exist, it’s such a black and white issue of “yes these people were subject to the most horrific genocide in human history, but under no circumstances, for any reason, does that mean they’re given a ‘one free genocide’ pass as recuperation.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx1o2MTEwWg
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