According to Palestinian reports, settlers have set houses and property on fire in the village of #Duma, near the Malachi Shalom outpost, where the body of the teenager Binyamin Ahimeir was found. The reports indicate that there are several injured people at the scene. A resident of Duma released a video in which he describes the events as a "war within the village" and adds that "they are burning and setting fire to apartments and property, and no one is helping us."
Concurrently, the Palestinian Red Crescent reports a 14-year-old boy injured by gunfire in the village of Bittin near Ramallah, and additional injuries from gunfire in the village of Al-Mu'ayyir.
#Haaretz is reporting that Israeli security forces confiscated construction equipment intended for building in the outpost where the 14-year-old Benjamin Achimair, who was recently killed in the West Bank, lived.
[cont’d] Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has condemned the acts of revenge performed in the West Bank by Jewish settlers, following the finding of the body of 14-year-old Binyamin Ahimeir near the settlement where he lived.
Gallant wrote on X: "I ask the public - let the security forces act quickly in their search for the terrorists. Acts of revenge will make our forces' jobs harder, do not take the law into your own hands." Gallant added that Israel's security establishment "will get to the killer and use the full legal measures against them, as we do with any terrorist or killer.
[comt’d] Photojournalist Shaul Golan was attacked by settlers who rioted in the village of Al-Mu'ayyir
Yedioth Ahronoth photographer Shaul Golan was attacked by settlers during the clashes and riots in the village of Al-Mu'ayyir. Golan told Haaretz that he entered one of the houses that was set on fire and photographed a group of 20-30 Israelis coming out of an olive grove. "Some of them were masked, some were shirtless, and some were wearing military uniforms," he recounted. "I hid and heard them approaching and entering the house. They ran with cries of horror, grabbed me and pulled me with my bag. They shouted at me 'Aren’t you a Jew, aren't you ashamed?'" According to him, his photography equipment was taken and burned.
"Some were in #IDF uniforms and with rifles. 20-30 men beat me and I shouted 'Help' hoping soldiers would hear me, but the soldiers were them. Arabs would not have done something like this to me. I lay on the floor and each one gave a kick, to the head and stomach. They left me naked (of equipment). They also threw my motorcycle keys into the fire and I have no way to get home. I'm waiting for a tow. There was hatred in their eyes."
This is an Israeli-Jewish photojournalist reporting his experience with settlers. Imaging what Palestinians have to go through every day of their lives their own homeland.
"And I have no way to get back home. I'm waiting for a tow truck. They had hatred in their eyes."
Shaul Golan managed to photograph houses that had been set on fire by settlers before a group of masked individuals noticed him. He documented them, caught them in the act. And they did not hesitate, as mentioned, to beat him while he was pleading for his life. He remembers one of them telling his friends: "Not the face, not the face, so he won't have marks on his face." They pummeled and kicked the elderly man, the age of their grandfather, and cursed him with hatred again and again that he was a "traitor." Someone like that, they break their hands.
"I told them - 'I'm a Jew like you', 'I'm a Jew, don't hurt me, I'm a Jew', but it didn't help. There were around 30 masked individuals and they cursed me - 'Jew?! Aren't you ashamed? You're a traitor!'"
@oatmeal@israel@palestine The combination of dehumanization (of the “enemy”) & impunity makes so many humans brazenly commit heinous crimes. Rachel Corrie’s emails to her parents chronicle her despair in human nature & the world we live in. She was murdered more than 20 years ago and so little has changed. What does it say about us?
@oatmeal
It's just sickening to see the whole "civilized west" ignore these outrageous terrorists and their actions.
Even #GenocideJoe has removed the 3 militant settlers from the sanction list and they are as free and "funded" as the rest of the Israeli citizens @palestine@israel