Israeli Military Joins In on Settlers’ War to Displace Palestinian Bedouins
| | | | | | | | | | | Israeli Military Joins In on Settlers’ War to Displace Palestinian Bedouins Dalia Hatuqa With the Israeli military standing by or, increasingly, joining settler attacks, Bedouin communities are especia... | | | With the Israeli military standing by or, increasingly, joining settler attacks, Bedouin communities are especially vulnerable. AL-MUARAJAT, WEST BANK — It was early on a mid-September day when a group of Israeli settlers arrived at a small Palestinian Bedouin school in the occupied West Bank. In short order, they stormed the building. Armed and emboldened, the settlers threw rocks, broke windows, and injured several students and teachers. Children scrambled for safety while their teachers tried to shield them. When the Israeli military arrived, however, it wasn’t to intervene and stop the attack. Instead, the soldiers had come only to arrest the school’s headmaster, who had been taken to a hospital for his injuries. In the past year, another, less-remarked-upon war against the Palestinians has intensified in the West Bank. Settler violence surged and the military has responded with increasing, and more brazen, complicity. Instead of maintaining order in its occupation, the army acts as an enforcer for the settlers. With figures like Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich — a staunch advocate for the annexation of the West Bank — gaining power, settler aggression has transformed into an overt strategy aimed at pushing Palestinians off their land. “The military, rather than serving as a neutral arbiter, has become an enforcer of this strategy, shielding settlers and punishing the victims.” Since October 7, there has been a sharp rise in settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, which has resulted in numerous casualties, mass displacement, and significant property damage. According to Human Rights Watch and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, more than 700 settler attacks have been recorded, with over 1,200 Palestinians displaced, including 600 children, from rural herding communities. In nearly half of these incidents, Israeli soldiers were present in uniform, either participating in or failing to intervene in the violence. | | | | | | | | | | | West Bank: Israel Responsible for Rising Settler Violence The Israeli military either took part in or did not protect Palestinians from violent settler attacks in the Wes... | | | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33063): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33063 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109123604/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
