Illegal settlements

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/revealed-israel-has-sped-up-settlement-building-in-east-jerusalem-since-gaza-war-began

I have been away so just catching up with things. I hope your xpil are doing ok so good of you to help them with their evacuation but horrendous they were forced to.

That video of the elderly man is heartbreaking, at his stage of life he should be able to relax and enjoy what time he has left not face this kind of harassment and terror. These people are nothing more than state sponsored yobs running rampant through an area like animals. Any other democratic state they would be rounded up and dealt with, not supported. Very reminiscent of the blind eye (and state support) for the actions of the KKK in the deep south back in the 20s

I find this hard to watch!

It reminds me of how much my ex-FIL cried over his orange orchard when settlers took it over and prevented him from entering it. Being the presumably unassailable white blonde European that I am: I tried ... and I have been sporting a dashing scar from "where I was hit in the face by a stone thrown at me" ever since.

That was years ago now!

May my ex-FIL's lovely, juicy, sweet Oranges grow small and green and sour! The people who stole that orchard: they didn't plant that orchard, they didn't foster and prune and graft those trees from saplings to fruit bearing. That lovely man did, and it broke his heart to lose them!

May the thieves find their ill-gained fruit small, green, and bitter! And may their produce find a BDS sticker slapped on it wherever they try to sell it abroad!

This elderly Palestinian old man is in tears after Israeli settlers cut down his 300 olive trees and ordered him to vacate from his own farm.

https://twitter.com/Kahlissee/status/1778898508377915508

Just saw this https://x.com/yesh_din/status/1779501559379849229?s=61&t=nilGqPeurpC5xVqZAZdZog

I hope your family are ok @HeidiInTheBigCity

I'm hoping and praying for them all. Thank goodness your ex-PIL have got to safety.

Ex-PIL have evacuated to [nearest larger city] upon urging from XH and, literally, myself, too, calling them and pleading. They are staying at a cushy hotel paid by yours truly for a while.

BILs and families are still around - they dont want to leave, and neither do XH or I want them to. We're both "pro people we love" not "pro ethnic cleansing". Situation still sketchy. But none of them are as immobile as elderly ex-PIL, so they'll be in a much better position.

Herds of settlers are now attacking the village of Beit Sakarya, south of Bethlehem. The village is surrounded by the Gush Etzion settlements

https://twitter.com/galebsami/status/1779243256695398686

That's kind of you!

You spelled it just fine, and intention matters most. I'll make dua for them.

(I probably spelled this wrong - my spoken dialect is a lot better than my written fusha, a and I also swear a lot better than I do pious!)

I'm not religious but ...

إن شاء الله

Sorry to hear that. Hope they are safe @HeidiInTheBigCity

Oh, no, @HeidiInTheBigCity , I hope they manage to stay safe.

Utterly vile - and still ongoing! There seems to be a new village every hour or so [or that's what it feels like, I don't mean this literally!] In the Ramallah, Nablus and Hebron regions.

The village next to where my ex-PIL live is now coming under attack. We are, obviously, beyond worried about XH's family, especially his elderly parents but also his brothers and their kids!

I hope the world finally watches and sees what this is.

https://x.com/mustafabarghou1/status/1778822001164959897?s=61&t=nilGqPeurpC5xVqZAZdZog

further video and information

https://x.com/sahouraxo/status/1779199252553490659?s=61&t=nilGqPeurpC5xVqZAZdZog

Video of the West Bank under attack. Armed Israeli settler groups apparently burning entire Palestinian villages to the ground.

From the article

Some were in IDF uniforms and holding guns. There were 20 or 30 of them who beat me as I shouted for help, hoping that soldiers would hear me. But they were the soldiers… I laid on the floor, as every one of them kicked me in the head and stomach,” Golan says.
“They left me stripped and threw my motorcycle keys into the fire, so I’d have no way to get home. They had hate in their eyes,” he says

@HeidiInTheBigCity it's already exploding. An Israeli photographer who was in the Palestinian village was stripped and beaten violently by the settlers. The Palestinians are being terrorised by them

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israeli-photographer-beaten-by-settlers-while-trying-to-document-rampage-of-palestinian-town/

I know, and this looks as though it's going to absolutely explode! It's utterly terrifying!

The government seems to just be pouring fuel into the flames! This is going to get exceedingly ugly if not stopped ASAP!

I mean, it already is but ... worse!

@HeidiInTheBigCity one Palestinian has already been killed aswell as 25 injured
Not to mention the burning of vehicles and terrorising of Palestinian villages by settlers

Well, so: teenage settler has apparently been found dead! And Netanyahu's statement is absolutely bone-chilling!

https://twitter.com/DanielSeidemann/status/1779117600892424680?t=iyemc2X_tQnoa3Fc0FnwLg&s=19

The advert doesn't mention the West Bank. Although given thst the person who posted it thinks Hamas are resistance fighters and all Israelis are evil I doubt it matters to her.