Jewish land thieves are carrying out "pogrom" against indigenous Christians and Muslims!
In 2 months, the Jews have killed at least 64 Palestinians (one last night); Palestinians freedom fighters have killed 11 Jews in retaliation (2 yesterday).
On Sunday night gangs of Jews invaded the Palestinian town of Huwara and nearby villages, burning homes, destroying cars, and attacking residents. Several Palestinians were shot, one was stabbed, and another was beaten with an iron bar.
UPDATE: Another Jew was killed today in West Bank mega concentration camp, while Jews protected by Jewish Green Shirts continue to attack Palestinians
On Sunday night, hundreds of Jews (some sites report “dozens”) invaded the Palestinian town of Huwara and nearby villages, burning homes, destroying cars, and attacking residents. One Palestinian man was killed.
The rampage lasted for hours before the Jewish Green Shirts arrived, and has been called the worst settler violence in years.
The immediate cause of the attack was apparently the shooting deaths earlier Sunday of two Jews near Huwara, which was preceded by daily Jewish violence against Palestinians that included 11 Palestinians killed in a Jewish Green Shirts raid in Nablus. The larger picture includes at least 64 Palestinian deaths and 11 Jewish deaths so far in 2023, and decades of Jewish oppression of Palestinians.
NBC reports:
Images from the streets of Hawara showed the destruction, with the charred gray skeletons of dozens of cars near to two-story buildings with their windows smashed.
One video shared widely on social media Sunday and geolocated by NBC News appeared to show a crowd of Israeli settlers praying while standing in front of a burning building.
Several Palestinians were shot, one was stabbed, and another was beaten with an iron bar. Reports say that somewhere between 100 and 350 others suffered from tear gas inhalation.
37-year-old Palestinian Sameh Hamdallah Mahmoud Aqtash, was shot and killed by Israeli fire, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. According to IMEMC, Aqtash had been in Turkey just two weeks ago, volunteering on an earthquake rescue team.
Most sources indicate that Israeli settlers shot and killed Aqtash; however, according to AFP, the Palestinian’s brother insists that the Israeli military did it.
A military spokesperson denies this.
One Huwara resident stated, “Whenever we started to push the settlers back, the army was firing tear gas at us.”
The Israeli military were in the midst of a manhunt for a Palestinian gunman who had killed two Israeli soldiers in the area earlier on Sunday, when the settler rampage began.
It is unclear why, with hundreds of military personnel nearby, none intervened to stop the attack for several hours.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking of the slain Israelis, said, “May God avenge them. I ask even when the blood is boiling, not to take the law in one’s hands.”
Former Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz declared that the revenge attacks in Hawara “should shame every person and every Jew in particular…This is not our way.” [NOTE: Israeli settler violence is quite commonplace, often with Israeli military complicity or even assistance.]
NBC reports:
While some denounced the rampage, other members of the ruling coalition — seen as perhaps the most right-wing in Israel’s history —appeared to praise Sunday’s violence as a deterrence against Palestinian attacks.
“I look favorably on what happened in Hawara,” Tzvika Foghel, a lawmaker from the ultranationalist Jewish Power party, said in an interview with IDF radio. “The result is deterrence, the army should do it and not the civilians. I want to see every place where terrorists come out burning.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas holds the Israeli government accountable for “the terrorist acts carried out by settlers under the protection of the occupation forces.”
US State Department spokesman Ned Price commented that both the shooting of the Israelis and the settler rampage “underscore the imperative to immediately de-escalate tensions in words and deeds.” [NOTE: the State Department rarely criticizes Israel’s actions – see other recent State Department comments here and here.]
The Israeli military has announced that ten Israelis were arrested following the Hawara rampage.
Less than a week ago, Israeli soldiers killed eleven Palestinians, injured more than 100, and caused more than 250 Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation and other minor wounds.
US ambassador to Israel Tom Nides issued a statement saying, "Sadly, I can confirm that a U.S. citizen was killed in one of the terror attacks in the West Bank tonight. I pray for his family."
Israeli reports describe that gunmen drove up beside the man’s car and shot at him while also opening fire on other cars, and subsequently the gunmen abandoned their car, setting it on fire. No others in nearby vehicles were injured.
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