{"id":29077,"date":"2023-10-14T11:39:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T18:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=29077"},"modified":"2023-10-14T11:39:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T18:39:51","slug":"with-all-eyes-on-gaza-israeli-soldiers-and-settlers-kill-dozens-of-west-bank-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/14\/with-all-eyes-on-gaza-israeli-soldiers-and-settlers-kill-dozens-of-west-bank-palestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"With All Eyes on Gaza, Israeli Soldiers and Settlers Kill Dozens of West Bank Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Euro-Med Monitor’s Muhammad Shehada says this photo was posted by Israeli settlers who vowed there would be “no red lines, laws, or mercy” shown to West Bank Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: Muhammad Shehada\/X)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Many Israeli settlers have openly called for Palestinians to be wiped off the map,” said one advocacy group. “Now, Israel is giving them the guns to achieve that vision.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BRETT WILKINS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oct 13, 2023 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the world watches Israel’s military pulverize Gaza amid anticipation<\/a> of an imminent ground invasion of the besieged strip, Israeli soldiers and settlers\u2014who are receiving thousands of assault rifles from the government\u2014have killed dozens of Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem over the past week, officials there said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At around 5:00 pm local time, the Palestinian Health Ministry said<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response, Israeli forces bombarded Gaza by air, land, and sea, killing at least 1,799 Palestinians\u2014including at least 583 children\u2014wounding at least 7,388 more, displacing hundreds of thousands, and cutting off<\/a> water and power to the besieged strip’s 2.3 million residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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<\/a> earlier this week. “The attacks are taking place within the villages themselves, on the roads, and in agricultural lands.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Playing with fire: settlers throwing molotov cocktails on houses and damage cars in a-Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, East Jerusalem, October 8 and 10 2023 pic.twitter.com\/RvlJ27l31g<\/a><\/p>— B'Tselem \u05d1\u05e6\u05dc\u05dd \u0628\u062a\u0633\u064a\u0644\u0645 (@btselem) October 12, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>