More than 100 Palestinians have been killed, more than 2,000 injured and nearly 1,000 forcibly displaced by Israeli settlers since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, the United Nations said.

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    8 months ago

    They are not “settlers”

    It obvious we need to call things what things are in these situations. What Hamas did/doing is a war crime. What Israel is doing is genicide. All illegal settlements need to be removed.

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      8 months ago

      They aren’t settlers. They are fucking bullies picking on helpless people.

      Hamas are terrorists, but most Palestinians aren’t Hamas.

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        8 months ago

        According to the United Nations they are settlers. [link - March 2022]

        “There is today in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967 a deeply discriminatory dual legal and political system, that privileges the 700,000 Israeli Jewish settlers living in the 300 illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank,” said Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967

        Also, even though english is not my first language, I would argue that picking on helpless people is not synonym to killing people and/or dispossessing them of their homes and land.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    “We’ve observed more incidents where armed settlers have threatened Palestinians,” Andrea De Domenico, the head of the U.N. humanitarian affairs office, told The New York Times.

    The settlements cut into land Palestinians have title to and also undermine the territory needed for any two-state solution, fanning tensions in the region.

    In the days after the Oct. 7 attacks, Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, announced that his ministry was purchasing 10,000 rifles in order to arm civilians, specifying among the intended recipients those in West Bank settlements.

    The U.N. said those Palestinians have faced physical violence and intimidation and also been denied access to their lands, a particular hardship given that many are farmers.

    Israeli settlers from a nearby outpost began to close roads leading to the hamlet on Oct. 14, according to Palestinians who lived there.

    On the night of Oct. 14, “they returned to attack us, pointing their guns at us while forcing us all into one room,” said Amir Abdullah Hamdan al-Maharak, a 50-year-old farmer who has seven children.


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