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cbabe

(4,125 posts)
Tue Oct 17, 2023, 10:48 AM Oct 2023

Israeli soldiers and settlers kill dozens of West Bank Palestinians

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218371900

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Israeli soldiers and settlers kill dozens of West Bank Palestinians

https://www.salon.com/2023/10/17/with-all-eyes-on-gaza-israeli-soldiers-and-settlers-dozens-of-west-palestinians_partner/

With all eyes on Gaza, Israeli soldiers and settlers kill dozens of West Bank Palestinians

"Israeli settlers are shooting, injuring, setting fires, and damaging property," human rights group says

By BRETT WILKINS
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 17, 2023 5:00AM (EDT)

While the world watches Israel's military pulverize Gaza amid anticipation of an imminent ground invasion of the besieged strip, Israeli soldiers and settlers—who are receiving thousands of assault rifles from the government—have killed dozens of Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem over the past week, officials there said on Friday.

At around 5:00 pm local time, the Palestinian Health Ministry said that 11 people were killed by Israeli occupation forces and settler-colonists in the West Bank and East Jerusalem so far on Friday, raising the death toll there to 46 and the number of wounded to over 700 since Hamas and other Gaza-based militants launched a massive cross-border attack on southern Israel last weekend, killing more than 1,300 Israeli soldiers and civilians.

"Amidst the war and horrors in the south, away from the public eye, Israeli soldiers and settlers are engaging in deadly violence against Palestinians in the West Bank," the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din noted earlier this week. "The attacks are taking place within the villages themselves, on the roads, and in agricultural lands."

"Israeli settlers are shooting, injuring, setting fires, and damaging property and trees," the group added. "There is evidence that soldiers are allowing the violence to continue, sometimes joining in."

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Israeli soldiers and settlers kill dozens of West Bank Palestinians (Original Post) cbabe Oct 2023 OP
And, yet claudette Oct 2023 #1
Joe, say something to Bibi, no_hypocrisy Oct 2023 #2

claudette

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1. And, yet
Tue Oct 17, 2023, 10:49 AM
Oct 2023

Last edited Tue Oct 17, 2023, 12:11 PM - Edit history (1)

more unnecessary deaths. When will this end?

more war crimes

Edited to add another war crime:

https://www.bbc.com/news

Another?

https://www.reuters.com/

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