Israeli settlers storm West Bank village, setting cars and homes ablaze | CNN
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The attack by hundreds of armed Israeli settlers on Friday left at least one person dead according to local officials, and was one of the largest such attacks this year, according to Palestinian officials.

It’s estimated that between 1,000 and 1,200 settlers surrounded the village, and around 500 stormed it just after midday local time on Friday, blocking all the roads in the area.

According to Abu-Alia [head of the village council], the Israeli military arrived at the scene at around 3 p.m. local time, but did not stop the settlers from attacking the village. Instead, Israeli soldiers allowed them to raid homes, prevented Palestinian residents from moving around and blocked ambulances from reaching the injured, he alleged.

Israeli security forces had informed Palestinian officials that the settlers were looking for an Israeli teenager who had gone missing earlier in the day.

  • caveman@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    By international law Israel is the OCCUPYING force and the OCCUPIED has the right of self defense, not the opposite.

      • caveman@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        7 months ago

        UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/38/17 (22/11/1983):

        "2. *Reaffirms *the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for their independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, *apartheid *and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;

        3. *Reaffirms *the inalienable right of the Namibian people, the Palestinian people and all peoples under foreign and colonial domination to self-determination, national unity and sovereignty without foreign interference;"

        Source: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/un-general-assembly-resolution-38-17-november-1983

        https://undocs.org/A/RES/38/17

          • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            7 months ago

            El oh fucking el. Even if any of that was true (which is isn’t. You’re on the Internet, are you unable to look things up?), it not only doesn’t disprove the previous point, it actually supports it.

          • caveman@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            7 months ago

            Palestine is composed of Gaza, West Bank and other terrories.

            Israel is stealing land continuously from West Bank and putting settlers illegally there. It’s a war crime to put civilian population in occupied Territory.

            And I didn’t even mention the illegally annexed territory in 1967 and the murder in 1948 to steal the land (Jews had bought 7% of the land up to 1947 and stole more around 46% with the Nakba).

          • RedAggroBest@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 months ago

            “Look at how those prisoners get all their resources from the prison guards! I don’t see the lack of freedom”

      • caveman@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Kidnap and murder are not self defense, but Israel commiting Genocide is self defense?