Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
How Israeli settler colonial violence forces Palestinians to flee in terror
This is despite the mounting difficulties posed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers there to ethnically cleanse them and steal their land for illegal Israeli settlers, on the one hand, and radical government-armed Israeli settlers on the other hand. Between a rock and a hard place, how do they survive? God must be laughing. Which god? Both.
But after weeks of intense Jewish settler colonial violence against Arab landowners in the aftermath of the Hamas retaliation against Israeli oppression on October 7th – and despite the decades-long struggle to remain in their homes – these communities are now being forced off their land.
IDF: Killing kids in Gaza? Don't blame us
Some have described it as “a new Nakba,” a new "Catastrophe" of displacement and dispossession as Israel steals neighboring land to grow itself into an unwelcome state in the region.
The Guardian’s Bethan McKernan travelled to Masafer Yatta to hear from Palestinian families on how armed Jewish settlers -- some in military reservist uniforms, others covering their faces like terrorists -- have begun breaking into their homes at night, beating up adults, destroying and stealing belongings, and terrifying children with their assault rifles, weapons, and violence committed with impunity backed by the IDF and an apartheid kangaroo court system built by Jews for Jews.
These West Bank Jewish settlements are illegal under international law, but Israel does not mind since the US and other Western military powers like England and France back this settler colonial project to take all of Palestine then Lebanon, Jordan, parts of Egypt, Yemen, Syria, and push up against Iran before deploying US-supplied nuclear weapons to threaten former-Persia and bombing them back a few centuries.
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"I had to carry a decapitated body": Gazan child after Israeli air strike on Jabalia
An Israeli air strike on a UN-run school sheltering displaced Palestinian (noncombatant) civilians at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza slaughtered at least 15 people and injured dozens more, traumatizing countless here and elsewhere, according to a doctor at al-Shifa Hospital.
According to CNN, the Israeli Defense Forces allege their militant Central Jabalya Battalion took control of civilian buildings, adding collapsed tunnels were partly a reason for the destruction caused by the strike on Tuesday.
"I carried a body and another decapitated body with my own hands," a Gazan boy said at the site. At least 9,488 Palestinians including 3,900 children have been slaughtered by Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7, the health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza said on Saturday.
"There are 15 martyrs [murdered victims], and the number is expected to increase," Mohammad Abu Selmeyah, who is also an official in the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave, said.
During the conflict, Israel has consistently claimed it's [not] targeting [children with heads, women, elderly, or civilians but just trying to murder or maim] Hamas militants [and anyone who looks like they might be one] following the Oct. 7 attack on the Israeli Be'eri kibbutz [civilian military outpost] next to their concentration camp called "Gaza," a massive open-air prison controlled by Israel.
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