Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for launching a “defensive war” on the West Bank in the same way that Israel has done in Gaza. The minister wields administrative power over the West Bank.
Maybe they’ll be deterred when Biden tells them to ‘cut it out.’
"Smotrich has called for launching a “defensive war” on the West Bank in the same way that Israel has done in Gaza. The minister wields administrative power over the West Bank."
Statement by Richard Goldstone on behalf of the Members of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict before the Human Rights Council
Human Rights Council 12th Session – 29 September 2009 #gaza#westbank@palestine
The Israeli military has lifted a ban on the sale of food to Gaza from Israel & the occupied #WestBank as its battlefield offensive chokes international aid, acc/to #Palestinian officials, businessmen (sic) & international aid workers.
The far-right Israeli security minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has threatened that Israel will destroy cities and towns in the occupied West Bank in the same way it has in Gaza.
Addressing residents of the Palestinian areas of Tulkarem, Nur Shams, Qalqilya and Shuweika, Smotrich wrote on X: “We will turn you into ruins like in the Gaza Strip if the terror you are perpetrating on the settlements continues.”
Israeli forces have carried out violent, near daily raids throughout these West Bank areas and others since October 7, regularly storming into homes, rounding up Palestinians en masse and bulldozing roads. During these raids, at least 519 Palestinians have been killed and more than 5,000 injured.
The war the media doesn't show us: The #IDF's General Staff lost control over the units, especially reserve units, months ago. In Gaza, in the #WestBank and in bases in Israel, soldiers record themselves destroying Palestinian property and civilian infrastructure | Amos Harel
🔶️ Blowing up homes without permission and spreading political messages identified with the far right. What is photographed and distributed is only the tip of the iceberg
🔶️ The vast majority of offenses are committed beyond the range of cameras, and in the vast majority of these cases, the army responds weakly if at all. Some of the incidents are serving #ICJ prosecutors as proof of the allegations against Israel
“There is no distinction on the ground between the IOF and the settlers, who often attack while wearing army fatigues and are part of the reserves...in some places, settlers have set up roadblocks and checkpoints, much like the Israeli army"
Ben-Gvir, symbol of Israel’s violent far right, has made this possible.
“Of course, the real problem is not Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, but Israel’s existence as a settler colonial state,”
Peter Oborne on the Israeli war on the Palestinians in the West Bank. 11 min video. Oborne compares the brutality of the Israeli settlers to scenes out of Mad Max. It is unbelievably violent and unjust and illegal ... And the international community is quiet.
Nearly 1,500 Palestinians have been unlawfully killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in the past 16 years – 98 percent of them civilians, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Each of them, like Taha and Ibrahim, has a story and loved ones who mourn them.
Another brown jounalist loses their job for daring to challenge genocidal Israeli propagandists.
LBC have taken Sangita Myska off the air for her questions regarding Israel's acts of aggression against Iran.
Any news organisation that attempts to protect Israel is actively participating in genocide, and every employee, willingly or not, becomes a party to said genocide.
If you choose to stay silent as a journalist, you're the problem #Gaza#WestBank