The U.N. humanitarian affairs office has recorded 650 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since Oct. 7, harming residents and property. It says settlers have killed at least nine Palestinians in the territory and Israeli security forces have killed more than 400 Palestinians in that time.

  • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.socialEnglish
    454·
    8 months ago

    Reminder: Hamas does not have a presence in the West Bank. Mass killings of Palestinians have never been about containing or defeating Hamas. The killing, destruction of property/seizure of land, and creation of fear are the point.

    • Billy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      515·
      8 months ago

      That’s false.
      Hamas does have a presence, and it has grown over the years of people being dissatisfied with Fatah. And the support of Hamas there is even greater than in Gaza.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
        123·
        8 months ago

        Doesn’t start to explain the

        destruction of property/seizure of land,

        parts

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    21·
    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The villagers fled at the end of November, chased away by violent Israeli settlers living in outposts that Israel hasn’t authorized, according to groups documenting violence in the West Bank.

    “Levi led a group of settlers who engaged in actions creating an atmosphere of fear in the West Bank,” the State Department said in a Feb. 1 fact sheet about the new sanctions.

    The United Kingdom and France have also recently slapped sanctions on Israeli settlers committing violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, and the European Union is set to follow suit.

    As Weiman and NPR’s reporting team leave Zanuta, the drive winds through rocky hillsides covered in olive groves and flowering almond trees.

    Under the 1993 Oslo accords, some parts of the West Bank are administered by the Palestinian Authority, while the largest contiguous area is under Israeli security forces’ control.

    After the U.S. sanctions in February, Israel’s settler-finance minister, Smotrich, blasted the measure, telling reporters the government would not allow for Israeli citizens to be harmed in that way.

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