Should the international community sanction Israel over settler violence in West Bank?

Yes read about this. These two paragraphs are the only reason these soldiers are being suspended....

The Israeli military has suspended a battalion of reservists from active duty in the occupied West Bank after soldiers there detained a team of CNN journalists and one of the soldiers said on camera that the troops were carrying out “revenge” against Palestinians.

A CNN cameraman was put in a chokehold and he and several colleagues were detained for about two hours, the network reported last week, as they documented the establishment of an illegal outpost of Israeli settlers in Tayasir, a Palestinian village northeast of Nablus.

From the NYT.

Israel Pulls Battalion From West Bank After Soldier Talks of ‘Revenge’

While detaining a CNN crew, a soldier said that Israeli troops were motivated by “revenge” against Palestinians and that all of the West Bank was “for the Jews.”

Qawasma/Reuters
David M. Halbfinger
By David M. Halbfinger
Reporting from Jerusalem

The Israeli military has suspended a battalion of reservists from active duty in the occupied West Bank after soldiers there detained a team of CNN journalists and one of the soldiers said on camera that the troops were carrying out “revenge” against Palestinians.

A CNN cameraman was put in a chokehold and he and several colleagues were detained for about two hours, the network reported last week, as they documented the establishment of an illegal outpost of Israeli settlers in Tayasir, a Palestinian village northeast of Nablus.

During the journalists’ detention on Thursday, one of the soldiers was recorded on video saying that the entire West Bank was “for the Jews.” He said that the soldiers’ motivation was “revenge” for the killing of an Israeli teenager in a collision with a car driven by a Palestinian on March 21.

In a statement on Monday, the Israeli military said that the soldier’s entire reserve battalion was being pulled from the field for additional training.

Soldiers were required to “maintain composure, statesmanship and respect for the uniform they wear and the military they represent,” it said.

Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, the army’s chief of staff, called the episode a “grave ethical incident.”

“We all swore the soldier’s oath upon enlistment,” he said in the statement. “Weapons are to be used solely for the purpose of carrying out the mission, and never for revenge.”

The military also said that it had apologized to the CNN journalists.

The suspended battalion is composed largely of veterans of the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, a unit established for ultra-Orthodox Jewish men whose strict religious observance demands that men and women be separated.

Netzah Yehuda’s soldiers have been accused of abusing Palestinians. It was singled out for possible sanctions in 2024 by the United States under the so-called Leahy Law, which bans foreign military units accused of human rights violations from receiving U.S. aid or training. The Biden administration, in the end, declined to suspend aid to the battalion.

One of the most egregious episodes attributed to the battalion involved the death of a 78-year-old Palestinian American who was detained, gagged and handcuffed by members of the unit in a raid on his village in 2022.

An autopsy showed that the man had died from a stress-induced heart attack brought on by injuries he sustained while he was detained. An investigation by the Israeli military’s justice system found fault with the conduct of the soldiers involved. The Israeli military disciplined three commanders, but no criminal charges were brought.

In the statement on Monday, General Zamir said that the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, including the battalion of reservists, “is dear and important to us, and we have invested significantly in strengthening it.” But he added that there was no place in the military for “unethical norms,” adding that “we will not compromise on this.”

Agreed. It was a horrible thread and those people should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

Would this type of state facilitated prejudice against Palestinians videoed here by the CNN count as apartheid?

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/27/middleeast/israeli-soldiers-settler-ideology-detain-cnn-crew-latam-intl

There are also reports of Israeli soldiers turning a blind eye to it.

« the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have faced mounting criticism for actively participating in attacks, standing by, or failing to prosecute those responsible.
While the IDF said it viewed the settler violence following the funeral "seriously", residents of Deir al-Hatab complained that soldiers in a nearby watchtower turned a blind eye to the mob that descended on the village and delayed the arrival of ambulances and firefighters. »

Its not just extremists in the Israeli government who are facilitating settler violence against Palestinians in the WB.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c747x00m83vo

To return to the topic of the the thread I was just looking at videos of the Basbous family who were evicted from their home in the last few days so it can be handed to the far right organisation Ateret Cohanim. Must be so frustrating when the courts and the judicial system are stacked against you .

The IRCG and Hezbollah helped assad kill at least 500k people (they stopped counting at 500k). Yemen (150’000 deaths due to houthis starting a civil war) what do you think the Houthis have been doing to Yemenis, where do you think they got the arms? Hezbollah has been responsible for assassinations etc and they are recognised in lebanon as being an arm of the IRCG. Oh and tens of thousands of their own people.

Everything they touch dies.

Unequivocally yes. Agree that this most recent aggression has opened the eyes of people all over the world to how Israel expects special treatment... and its self-serving disregard for human life and international law... and how much they're enabled by other countries. The scales have fallen...

Ok @FloralDeerPattern but nearly all threads go off topic. At least everyone is agreeing that the violence given to the Palestinian population by the Settlers is not acceptable. We are not defending Israel on this issue, but agreeing the extremist members of their government are in the wrong.

Universal sympathy towards those attacked is not always apparent on other threads, for example the one about Jewish people who were killed at the Bondi Beach attack. Some people tried to justify that attack rather than just agreeing it was deplorable.

If you don’t want discussion then you shouldn’t say one sided things like “Israel is currently attacking Iran”. They are, but Iran is also attacking Israel via their proxies.

One could argue it’s relevant as by attacking Iran and causing all sorts of problems what they do i. Palestine is being overlooked more easily

Ok but on lots of threads people talk about stuff I don't consider relevant to the topic ... by commenting on it you've created another diversion to the actual topic.

I would have to trawl through multiple threads which are many many pages long, so no I won’t. And I literally couldn’t give two shits if you believe me or not. I know what I read.

Threads always go off at tangents, you know this. It's common for Iran to get mentioned in threads about Israel, and Israel to be mentioned in posts about Iran.

This is a rare thread on this board where we all agree with the OP. We all think that the international community should sanction Israel over settler violence in the West Bank.

Literally everyone on this thread has agreed that terrorizing innocent people who have no way to defend themselves is indeed wrong. Literally everyone. Its indefensible. Everyone here agrees with you.

I am upset and annoyed and saddened about how difficult it is to find out what is happening to Palestinians at the moment. But it sounds like attacks and death are regular

with medical facilities often targeted

Provide links then to the multiple posts confidently asserting that it was an Iranian missile from that thread then. Posts just giving the opinion that it could be an Iranian missile not allowed.

(you won't be able to, they don't exist).

I definitely read multiple posts confidently asserting that it was an Iranian missile that killed the school children. We do know who did it though don’t we? The only country in this war that has Tomahawk missiles.

Re the thread about the girls school that got bombed, it is a lie to say that there were "lots of people telling everyone" it was an Iranian missile.

There were people saying we didn't know which country was responsible for the missile and that it could have been an Iranian missile. Others suggested it could have been a US one or an Israeli one, but no one knew any details as it had just happened.

To the best of my knowledge we still don't. Though the most likely country is the US and that is the country I believe to be responsible.

I don't normally choose to engage with this poster but this untruth couldn't go unchallenged.

Completely agree with this @dairydebris

BG and S are not Israel. They are the racist supremacist wing of Jewish ethnicity. In the same way I would not throw every Palestinian under the bus along with Hamas, I would urge others to do the same with Israelis.
There are many Israelis who wholeheartedly condemn the violence in the WB.
Lets hope one of those comes into power later on this year, and a corner can be turned.