In latest assault, settlers beat a young man and block ambulances from reaching him, then shoot another and leave his body in the bushes

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33113132

By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine Published date: 12 July 2025 15:49 BST

"The attack began when a large group of settlers targeted dozens of #Palestinians attempting to access their land between the villages of Sinjil and al-Mazra’a al-Sharqiya, east of Ramallah.

Such assaults have become a regular occurrence, taking place almost every Friday, as part of efforts to intimidate villagers and drive them off land targeted for settlement."

“‘Musalat owned a home in the area and died trying to defend it’ - Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, al-Mazra’a al-Sharqiya municipality member”

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    161·
    23 hours ago

    It’s the escalating culture of public acceptance

    • first you accept disagreement
    • then accept disgust
    • then accept name calling
    • then accept lying about facts
    • then accept pushing people
    • then accept striking people
    • then accept beating people
    • then accept maiming people
    • then accept killing people
      … I think we are at his level right now … but knowing human stupidity and our long history of this sort of thing … we’ll keep escalating the violence
    • we’ll probably go on to murdering people
    • go on to rounding up people for death
    • go on to just killing whoever is left just to remove all witnesses and anyone that might come back to continue the fighting