Israel's finance minister, Bezalel #Smotrich, announces that the Israeli security and political cabinet has approved the imposition of new #sanctions on the Palestinian Authority, including the legalization of 5 settlement outposts and the convening of the Supreme Planning Council to build thousands of settlement units.
Where the fuck is the "world" reaction to this outrageous act?
Film recommendation: Lemon Tree (Israel, 2008). It's about the life of a Palestinian widow (interpreted by Hiam Abbass) in #westbank and a number of Palestinian & Israeli characters.
It has received nominations for several awards such as Best Actress and Best Screenwriter at the 21st European Film Awards.
"Smotrich...was recently caught on audio tape telling supporters that his “life’s mission is to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state.”...Smotrich explained that a “separate civilian system” is being formed to administer the West Bank while the Israeli military remains in charge on paper“
"...the plan will allow settlers to bypass the central government and legalize Israeli outposts in disputed territory..."
A Palestinian child rights group has released details of a 12-year-old who was shot by Israeli forces on June 14 and died in hospital in #Ramallah on Saturday.
The victim Mohammad Morad Ahmad Hoshiyeh was on his way home from football practice when he was shot in the abdomen by Israeli soldiers at 6:30 pm on June 14.
The 12-year-old was shot at a distance of between 70 to 90 meters (230 to 295 feet) by an Israeli soldier who was inside an armoured military vehicle.
Ex-French envoy calls West Bank settler violence 'ethnic cleansing'
"In a television interview, Araud said that "the settlers are taking advantage of the current situation to assault Palestinians as usual, to get rid of some communities and villages."
He added that "the scandal is that Europe does not take a strong stance, while the reality is that the settlers are doing this to make the two-state solution impossible,""
Mainstream Western media decline to explicitly mention that the Israeli occupation army used a Palestinian young man as a human shield during a raid yesterday in Jenin, north of the occupied West Bank.
"The Israeli forces seized one of the injured men and strapped him to the front of a military vehicle, driving around while parading him as a human shield before eventually handing him over to Palestinian medical teams, who transported him to a hospital in Jenin."
Every freaking day we hear, read or see outrageous criminal acts by the occupation forces of IDF.
And every day disgusting leaders of the world ignore these atrocities and the media help to cover them up and then a few days later everyone forget about those and IDF does another outrageous criminal act with total impunity and absolute no fear of ever being held accountable.
"...here in At-Tuwani, there is no Hamas. I want the whole world to know that an Israeli settler shot my husband with an illegal bullet, and see the lasting effects of settler violence on our families and communities. I want the whole world to understand what it is like to watch Israeli soldiers turn your home to rubble, while you stand helplessly by"
Leak reveals Smotrich's annexation plan for Israel-occupied West Bank
"Extremist minister Bezalel Smotrich divulges his regime's strategy to completely reshape governance in occupied West Bank, aiming to subjugate Palestinians and solidify occupational control without being seen as a formal annexation"
"Smotrich's plan...aims to blur the line between occupation and annexation, circumventing international scrutiny"
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.