On the West Bank, Israeli “settlers” are stealing Palestinians’ land and homes, which isn’t as bad as saturation bombing, but is still pretty bad. From Amira Hass at Haaretz via archive.ph:
Damage after settlers attacked the village of Wadi al-Siq in the West Bank a week ago. Such incidents are part of a planned, calculated and well-financed program.Credit: Thomas Coex/AFP
Under cover of the collective shock and horror at Hamas’ pogrom on October 7, under cover of bereavement, mourning, pain and the anxiety over the hostages’ fate, settler militias are accelerating and expanding their attacks on Palestinian shepherd communities in large parts of the West Bank. They’re also chasing Palestinian farmers from the lands, orchards and olive groves – often with backing from the army.
A gradual three-decade process has received its window of opportunity to near its logical conclusion: expulsion in broad daylight in preparation for the full “cleansing” of around 60 percent of the West Bank of its indigenous people.
It’s happening at every house, tent and road that the Israeli Civil Administration’s discriminatory bureaucracy failed to destroy, and wherever military orders have failed to prevent people from remaining in their villages that existed before 1948, or from cultivating their land. Settlers are now coming armed and committing acts of violence to fulfill the official goal: expanding living space for Jews at the expense of the Palestinians.
