"The "one of the most criminal armies in the world" is also profoundly immoral. No need to be a spiritual authority to arrive at this conclusion, considering the low standards to which they (and many illegal settlers) have descended."
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine
Israeli settlers’ attacks on Palestinians took place across the region on Tuesday, including in Burin, south of Nablus, and Yasouf, northeast of Salfit, where they destroyed crops and demolished a well.
In Burqa, east of Ramallah, they set olive trees on fire.
On average, there are four such attacks witnessed daily.
The UN has documented 962 settler attacks since October 7, which have led to the destruction of 43,000 Palestinian-owned trees and saplings.
"In a scathing editorial, Haaretz has criticised the Israeli government’s proposal to restrict the use of administrative detention to cases involving “terrorist activity against the state or its citizens”, describing it as yet another example of Israel’s discriminatory policy towards Palestinians...“The result is very clear: Jewish terrorism in the West Bank will be immune to such measures.”"
Israeli settlers paint an Israeli flag on a Palestinian home after its residents were forced to flee, in the Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank on March 11, 2024 [File: Atef Safadi/EPA]
"Itay Epshtain, special advisor for the Norwegian Refugee Council, condemned the group ahead of its upcoming meeting, highlighting the group’s plans.
"Leaders of the settlement movement to share "success stories and best practice" from Israeli settlements of the West Bank, in the hope of committing additional grave breaches of international law and fuelling a regional war...It is abhorrent as much as a demonstration of lunacy."
Agricultural lands planted with olives and almonds have been burned following an attack by illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency, Wafa.
‘Solidarity over hatred’: the small band of Israelis stopping settlers obstructing aid trucks
Israeli #Peace activists confronting settlers acknowledge they are ‘a minority within a minority’
At approximately 10.30am on a scorching Monday, a group of five young Israeli #settlers arrived at the Tarqumiya #checkpoint, west of Hebron in the West Bank, where dozens of aid trucks bound for Gaza were expected.
The settlers had received detailed information about the timing, location, and number of trucks that would pass through the checkpoint that morning. What they had not anticipated was that dozens of peace activists had also gathered in Tarqumiya with a specific mission: to prevent the settlers from blocking the vehicles and ensure that the aid continued its journey to Gaza.
♲ @faab64@diasp.org:> ### ‘Solidarity over hatred’: the small band of Israelis stopping settlers obstructing aid trucks
Israeli #Peace activists confronting settlers acknowledge they are ‘a minority within a minority’
At approximately 10.30am on a scorching Monday, a group of five young Israeli #settlers arrived at the Tarqumiya #checkpoint, west of Hebron in the West Bank, where dozens of aid trucks bound for Gaza were expected.
The settlers had received detailed information about the timing, location, and number of trucks that would pass through the checkpoint that morning. What they had not anticipated was that dozens of peace activists had also gathered in Tarqumiya with a specific mission: to prevent the settlers from blocking the vehicles and ensure that the aid continued its journey to Gaza.
"Israeli soldiers and police tipping off groups that attack Gaza aid trucks" ...
"Individual members of Israel’s security forces are tipping off far-right activists and settlers to the location of #aid trucks delivering vital supplies to #Gaza, enabling the groups to block and vandalise the convoys, according to multiple sources.
#Settlers intercepting the vital #humanitarian supplies to the strip are receiving information about the location of the aid trucks from members of the Israeli police and military, a spokesperson from the main Israeli activist group behind the blockades told the #Guardian.
The claim of collusion by members of the security forces is supported by messages from internal internet chat groups reviewed by the Guardian as well as accounts from a number of witnesses and human rights activists."
Israeli settlers have entirely uprooted seven communities and displaced many more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 2023, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW).
“Settlers and soldiers have displaced entire Palestinian communities, destroying every home, with the apparent backing of higher Israeli authorities,” said Bill Van Esveld, associate children’s rights director at HRW.
#Israeli#settlers entered the northern #Gaza Strip to establish a #settlement. At least 10 settlers managed to pass through Erez Crossing, while others were erecting structures between the two walls surrounding the Strip. The settlers posted videos of themselves eating strawberries from inside Gaza. They are part of a movement supported by several Israeli #politicians and #lawmakers, aiming to rebuild #settlements in Gaza.
Israeli right wing #settlers enter Eretz crossing an try to build an illegal structure near the border wall with Gaza. They are calling the government to allow them to settle in #Gaza
They are trying to do the same they have been doing with the occupied West Bank in northern Gaza.
"Palestinians across the West Bank describe how Israeli settlers, with military backing, are intensifying their takeover of land for illegal construction."
"Armed Israeli settlers raided more than a dozen Palestinian communities under the army’s guard, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake"
"Despite their narrow focus, recent international sanctions against settlers are laying the foundations to turn verbal condemnations into tangible action."