{"id":246862,"date":"2023-10-30T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=246862"},"modified":"2023-10-25T09:39:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T08:39:27","slug":"all-of-palestine-is-under-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/10\/all-of-palestine-is-under-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"All of Palestine Is under Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Israeli settlers violence in Palestine – The Wire – Jewish Voice for Peace<\/p><\/div>\n

24 Oct 2023<\/em> – For many of us, it\u2019s impossible to imagine the scale of death and destruction in Gaza.<\/p>\n

In just two weeks, the Israeli military has killed over 5,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Israeli warplanes have flattened entire neighborhoods. Shell-shocked children are left to search for their parents under the rubble. Millions of Palestinians have once again been made refugees, bombed as they tried to flee. Surgeons are operating by the light of their cellphones, increasingly without anesthesia.<\/p>\n

Let us be clear: This is genocide.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a war on Hamas. It\u2019s a war on the Palestinian people.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Aseel Al Bajeh writes<\/a>, \u201cAll of Palestine is under attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

While international attention is focused on Gaza, the Israeli government and extremist settler groups are taking the opportunity to accelerate the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank.<\/p>\n

Israeli settlers are being armed by the Israeli state<\/a>, and have become indistinguishable<\/a> from Israeli soldiers. Both abuse Palestinians with impunity.<\/p>\n

On October 12, as the last villagers of Wadi al-Seeq left their homes, driven out by ongoing settler terror, a group of Israeli \u201csoldiers-settlers\u201d<\/a> \u2014 some dressed in military uniform and some in civilian clothing \u2014 took three Palestinian men captive.<\/p>\n

For hours, the men were tortured: They beat them, forced them to strip down to their underwear, handcuffed and blindfolded them, urinated on them, extinguished cigarettes on their bodies, and attempted to sexually assault one of them.<\/p>\n

Settlers have carried out dozens of attacks<\/a>, setting Palestinian homes on fire, destroying their property, and shooting at them with live ammunition.<\/p>\n

Over 90 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 26 children, have been murdered<\/a> by the Israeli military and settlers since October 7.<\/p>\n

They include 16-year-old Mohammad Rafat Mohammad Edwan, who was throwing stones at Israeli soldiers when he was shot<\/a> with live ammunition. The bullet lodged itself in his lung, and four days later, on October 14, he was dead.<\/p>\n

On October 12, 62-year-old Ibrahim Wadi and his son, 24-year-old Ahmad Wadi, were killed<\/a> when Israeli settlers opened fire<\/a> on the funeral procession of four Palestinians who had been murdered the previous day \u2014 three by Israeli settlers and one by an Israeli soldier.<\/p>\n

And on October 19, 11-year-old Yousef Mohammad Omar Zaghdad was killed when the Israeli military fired a missile<\/a> at a group of civilians inside Noor Shams refugee camp. Three other children were killed in the attack.<\/p>\n

Enabled by the Israeli military and empowered by a climate of impunity and lawlessness, Israeli settlers are taking advantage of Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza to steal more Palestinian land, thereby expanding Israeli control of the West Bank. Hundreds of Palestinians from over a dozen different communities in the West Bank have been displaced<\/a> as a result.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey came into the village and destroyed houses and sheep pens, beat an 85-year-old man, scared our children. Slowly our lives became unlivable,\u201d Sliman al-Zawahri, a resident of the now-depopulated village of Ein Rashash, told<\/a> the Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s war on Gaza has also heightened the discrimination faced by Palestinian citizens of Israel and those with Jerusalem IDs, who are increasingly being arrested<\/a>, harassed, doxxed, suspended from school, and fired from their jobs for expressing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The expansion of Israel\u2019s regime of Jewish supremacy relies on the destruction of all Palestinian life. For Palestinians, there is no right way to protest their subjugation, and nowhere safe from Israeli violence.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s of the utmost importance that we keep up the fight, not only for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza \u2014 but for an end to all Israeli oppression of Palestinians.<\/p>\n

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Jewish Voice for Peace is the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world, a grassroots, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of U.S. Jews into solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. We envision a world where all people live in freedom, justice, equality, and dignity and believe that through organizing, we can and will dismantle the institutions and structures that sustain injustice.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 jewishvoiceforpeace.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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