A 12-year-old Palestinian boy was shot while lighting a firework. ‘Cases like these happen quite regularly, but no one’s hearing about them,’ according to the Israeli rights group B’Tselem

While the world’s attention is on Gaza, life for Palestinians in the West Bank is also growing increasingly precarious. There has been a surge in settler violence and a spike in unlawful lethal force from Israeli forces.

More than 400 Palestinians from East Jerusalem and the West Bank have been killed by Israeli fire since 7 October, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has said that about 100 of these deaths have been children, most of whom posed no credible threat to heavily armed soldiers from one of the most powerful militaries in the world.

    • bobalotEnglish
      16•8 months ago

      Anybody notice that the small army of Israel apologists have started to drop off?

      The longer this goes on, the more difficult it is to deny genocide.

      • SilverserenOP
        5•8 months ago

        Even /r/worldnews isn’t able to do much arguing against the new West Bank settlement expansion. There were some shills in the discussions over there still trying to push a “they deserve it” narrative, but it wasn’t getting much traction.

        The best they can do at this point is try and push all blame on Netanyahu and Likud.

  • @AltofaltceptionEnglish
    24•8 months ago

    Clearly the children in the West Bank didn’t condemn Hamas.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    5•8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    “The depth of the horror surpasses our ability to describe it,” James Elder, a spokesperson with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), said after travelling the length of Gaza this week.

    The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has said that about 100 of these deaths have been children, most of whom posed no credible threat to heavily armed soldiers from one of the most powerful militaries in the world.

    “It’s made to sound as though you need a degree in Middle Eastern studies or some such, a PhD, to really understand what’s happening,” the acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates said after he visited Israel and Palestine last year.

    Twenty-one years ago, in 2003, American peace activist Rachel Corrie went to Gaza to defend homes in Rafah from being demolished by Israeli forces.

    You just can’t imagine it unless you see it … Just want to write to my Mom and tell her that I’m witnessing this chronic, insidious genocide and I’m really scared, and questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of human nature.

    Saudi Arabia is the only candidate to chair the next yearlong UN Commission on the Status of Women session, several diplomats told Human Rights Watch.

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