https://theintercept.com/2023/10/13/israel-settlers-gaza-palestinians-west-bank/
Settlers and soldiers have killed 51 Palestinians in the West Bank since Saturday. At least two Palestinian villages have been entirely depopulated.
Settlers — Israeli Jews living in the occupied West Bank — and soldiers have killed 51 Palestinians in the West Bank since Saturday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah. At least two villages, Al-Qanub and Wadi Al-Sik, have been entirely depopulated as a result of the violence by Israeli settlers.
the rest of the article is a list of local stories.
Hamas says IDF bombed it, IDF say it was Hamas. We don’t know. Hamas has a ton of reasons to do that, the IDF has essentially only the “they want to commit genocide” side of reasons. But in a very odd way, since they try to avoid killing civilians otherwise, which that sides argues away with “secret genocide”, which this obviously would not be. So I tend to assume that it was Hamas.
We do know, though. Israel, officially and as a government policy, has been bombing this area for nearly 80 years. What Hamas did is deplorable but not at all unexpected. Unless you expect them to just be ok with being regularly bombed and with their families executed, I’m not sure how anyone can be surprised by Hamas’ reaction. The number of people dead on the Palestinian side dwarfs the number dead on the Israeli side. It’s not even close no matter how you slice it (men, women, children, total) and, to me, seems more like a little kid who has had enough of their bully picking on them and stabs them in the eye with a pencil. It’s horrible but would it still have happened if they weren’t constantly being bullied? I doubt it.