Heartbreaking photographs, videos, and on-the-scene accounts keep undermining Israel’s massive propaganda complex. From Cara Marianna at thefloutist.substack.com:
The starvation siege has begun.
Best behavior. Zionist boys threaten a Palestinian woman, al–Mughayyir, West Bank, 15 May. (Screenshot, with permission.)
14 JUNE—What follows is a series of alerts on settler and I.O.F. violence that arrived by text beginning in the second week of May. In photographs and videos, they document incidents near the villages of Kisan and al–Mughayyir, where I have contacts and friends. These events merit witness. The Palestinians who suffer as settlers and soldiers lay violent siege to the West Bank deserve the world’s attention.
The West Bank is being strangled by an ever-tightening noose. Zionist settlers rapidly steal more land while encircling rural communities and villages with outposts and new settlements. They burn wheat fields, cut down olive groves, and destroy greenhouses. They kill or steal herds of sheep and goats and drive Palestinian shepherds off their ancestral grazing land. Any remote families or family groups are attacked and forced from their homes. All of this under the protective watch of I.O.F. soldiers and in violation of international law.
In the meantime, the I.O.F. accelerates home demolitions and has erected metal gates and barriers at the entrances of every single village, town, and city—without exception. Palestinian communities are frequently and randomly locked down, often for days. People are unable to travel to work, school, or for medical care. No one can get in. No one can get out. The Zionist state has turned every Palestinian community into a small version of Gaza. Should there be any resistance—or should the Zionist entity claim there is a threat of resistance—any community can easily be reduced to rubble.
Watching video of Iranian hypersonic missiles striking Israel with people screaming and freaking out.
What you don’t want to play anymore?
That’s not how that works.