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Surging Israeli settler violence puts West Bank Palestinians on edge
France 24 ^

Posted on 11/15/2023 9:50:43 AM PST by FarCenter

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In the West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967, 490,000 settlers live among three million Palestinians.

Their settlements are considered illegal under international law by the United Nations.

Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7, the UN's humanitarian agency (OCHA) has recorded an average of more than six incidents per day between settlers and Palestinians, including everything from livestock theft to direct physical violence.

Before the war, the average was three a day.

"They use the war as a pretext to expel us from our homes and to expropriate our lands," Jaber Dababsi, a 35-year-old farmer and militant in the village of Khallet al-Dabaa, told AFP.

European and US diplomats have repeatedly condemned the rise in violence by settlers that has followed the war, triggered by Hamas's bloody attack on southern Israel.

Around 1,200 people were killed, mostly civilians and 239 taken hostage during the attack, Israeli officials say.

Israel's retaliation in Gaza, aimed at destroying Hamas, has killed more than 11,300 people, also mostly civilians, including more than 4,650 children, the Hamas-run health ministry says.

'Act like soldiers'

Some settlers "even wear military uniforms", said Musaab Rabbe, 36, a farmer and construction worker.

"They were given weapons and the right to act like soldiers, they arrest people and we think they are soldiers," said Rabbe, speaking in one of the hamlets of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.

In 235 attacks by settlers against Palestinians recorded by OCHA since October 7, including several deadly incidents, more than a third involved "using firearms to threaten Palestinians, including by opening fire".

And in close to half of cases, Israeli security forces "accompanied or actively supported the attackers", OCHA said.

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: Gaza; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; fakenews; judeasamaria; ocha; packoflies; rop; un; westbabk
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1 posted on 11/15/2023 9:50:43 AM PST by FarCenter
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To: FarCenter

“”European and US diplomats have repeatedly condemned the rise in violence by settlers that has followed the war,””

I’m assuming that “settlers” are Israelis...If such VIOLENCE is taking place, it must be reported somewhere else as I haven’t seen it in the US press. Nice that the UN is keeping track of incidents. They’re good at that and not much of anything else. Let’s see the stats side by side with Palestinian violence against the “settlers” over the years!


2 posted on 11/15/2023 9:57:49 AM PST by Thank You Rush ( )
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To: FarCenter

Jaber Dababsi, a 35-year-old farmer and militant...


Obviously a credible source. /s
And yet despite the evil Nazi-like apartheid Israeli occupation, Jaber is walking about free to give interviews to France 24.


3 posted on 11/15/2023 10:00:34 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: FarCenter

Maybe all the Palestinians can move back to their homeland Jordan, where they got kicked out of?


4 posted on 11/15/2023 10:02:16 AM PST by davidb56
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To: FarCenter

From the River to the River! The occupation by Arabs must end!


5 posted on 11/15/2023 10:03:55 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Rebuild the Temple.)
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To: FarCenter

Too bad.


6 posted on 11/15/2023 10:05:21 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: FarCenter

Consider the source. The Sons of Rousseau have wet their pants, as they try to placate the radical Muslims who are raping their daughters. It is interesting that the spiritual prodigy of the guillotine find sympathy for the religion that has made decapitation a sacrament. France has lost its faith, and it has nothing to put in its place. It will be dragged to hell if it does not repent.


7 posted on 11/15/2023 10:13:02 AM PST by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees )
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To: Thank You Rush

France24 is the French equivalent of The Guardian, both are worthless cesspools.


8 posted on 11/15/2023 10:15:34 AM PST by gibsonguy ( )
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To: FarCenter
I saw where mainstream was complaining about the rapid weapons sales to Israel citizens this morning.
Israelis are lining up to buy guns

I thank God daily for our rights to bear arms.
9 posted on 11/15/2023 10:28:09 AM PST by DEPcom (DC is not my Capitol after Jan 6th lock downs.)
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To: FarCenter

Fancy that! I thought I recognised his name:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2020-12-25/ty-article-magazine/.premium/a-palestinian-tried-to-resist-when-israeli-cops-razed-his-home-so-they-took-revenge/0000017f-e2fd-d38f-a57f-e6ff95090000

https://www.rfi.fr/en/middle-east/20231115-surging-israeli-settler-violence-puts-west-bank-palestinians-on-edge

https://theintercept.com/2023/04/01/israel-palestine-apartheid-settlements/

http://www.hic-mena.org/news.php?id=p29naw==

https://time.news/video-hamas-israel-war-palestinian-killed-by-israeli-settler-in-west-bank/

https://www.laluce.news/2021/01/07/palestinese-resiste-alla-demolizione-della-casa-la-polizia-israeliana-si-vendica-pestandolo/

And on and on... Mr Jaber Dababsi has been a favorite of the MSM since 2019 or so.


10 posted on 11/15/2023 10:41:01 AM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: DEPcom
I saw where mainstream was complaining about the rapid weapons sales to Israel citizens this morning. Israelis are lining up to buy guns

Having your family slaughtered, raped, and kidnapped will generally show a spike in buying guns.

11 posted on 11/15/2023 10:46:28 AM PST by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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To: FarCenter
Jaber Dababsi, a 35-year-old farmer and militant (i.e. HamAsser) in the village of Khallet al-Dabaa
12 posted on 11/15/2023 10:49:40 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: davidb56

That is what should happen. Jordan IS the two state solution.

But Jordan doesn’t want them because they are violent toward the nation of Jordon.


13 posted on 11/15/2023 10:51:59 AM PST by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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To: FarCenter

The “surging settler violence” headline tells you a lot about where their head is at. These guys are as bad as MSNBC and the BBC.


14 posted on 11/15/2023 10:55:48 AM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: gitmo

No, because even Jordan sees Israel as “Palestine”.


15 posted on 11/15/2023 11:25:47 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: LuxAerterna

Six incidents a day....on a per capita basis that’s far more peaceful than your typical Democrat-run city in the USA.


16 posted on 11/15/2023 11:45:00 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: ConservativeInPA

From the river
To thesea
Israel will beHamas free!


17 posted on 11/15/2023 11:45:39 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Thank You Rush

Illegal under UN international law??
apparently (hopefully) NOT recognised by Israel.

JEWs are outnumbered 6 to 1
and most are unarmed.

hummm


18 posted on 11/15/2023 11:46:16 AM PST by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives )
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To: sheik yerbouty

My quote refers to the Abrahamic covenant. The two rivers are the Nile and the Euphrates.


19 posted on 11/15/2023 11:59:03 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Rebuild the Temple.)
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To: FarCenter

the Hamas-run health ministry says.

Well, that’s enough for me...


20 posted on 11/15/2023 12:43:39 PM PST by Paisan
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