B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights group, said in a 249-page report published on Tuesday that Tel Aviv is working to erase Palestinian life in the West Bank far more obviously than before the Hamas attack in 2023, and said its effort relies heavily on “cooperation between official state authorities and settler militias operating in the West Bank with state backing and support,” according to a report in Haaretz.
A group of ‘rogue’ Israeli ‘settlers’ (land-stealers) have been harassing Palestinians living in the West Bank and have been using rudimentary intimidation tactics to get these residents to the point where they decide to pick up and move, according to a report last week in The Wall Street Journal.
The IDF was once considered a secular institution in Israel, but in recent years, religious fanatics have gained a foothold in the Israeli military, according to a report in the Financial Times.
Israel has killed at least 73,789 Palestinians inside Gaza since 7 October 2023, and another 174,798 people have been injured.
About a week and a half before Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the group was planning a “major operation” and that Tel Aviv should be prepared, but the Israeli leader “did nothing,” Haaretz reported, citing a new book “Hostages: 843 Days of Abandonment.”
Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese president, called out Israel for its “repeated violations” of the ceasefire that was announced in June and warned that Tel Aviv’s latest attack on a government building and hospital inside the country could lead to a “dangerous escalation,” according to the Financial Times.
Israel killed about 73,431 Palestinians and injured another 174,437 since the genocidal war started in October 2023.
Israel’s decision last week to launch an airstrike on a base in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province angered Turkey, which called the strike another example of Tel Aviv’s “expansionist and destabilizing policies,” according to a report.
The IDF has destroyed or damaged most of Gaza’s water infrastructure during the genocide that started in October 2023, which means Palestinians inside the enclave must search for water, often relying on children as young as four years old to carry gallons of water to their tent camps.
Top countries in Europe lashed out last week against Israel’s “concerning” decision to issue a tender for more than 1,200 new homes in the West Bank under the so-called E1 project that focuses on a roughly 12-square-kilometer patch of land between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, an Israeli settlement.