The film must have got to them as the settlers and IDF are redoubling on their destructive, racist, and supremecist efforts.
Haaretz (without the links, videos or stills of the Israeli attacks, or photographs of ransacked houses etc) :
Over 100 Israeli Soldiers, Settlers Raid Village in West Bank's Masafer Yatta,
^Locals Say
Around 140 Israelis, both in uniform and in civilian clothing, entered the village in the early hours of Saturday. The attack was the second raid in as many days, following the wounding of six Palestinians and a mass arrest of residents by the IDF on Friday^
Israeli soldiers and settlers spent several hours early Saturday morning vandalizing a Palestinian village in the Masafer Yatta area of the West Bank, marking the second attack on the village in two days, according to testimonies by local residents.
The residents of the Jinba village reported that between 2 A.M. and 6:30 A.M., around 140 uniformed and civilian-dressed Israelis raided the village, broke into all the homes, dumped food, vandalized appliances and terrorized the locals.
The IDF confirmed it carried out an overnight operation in the village to search for weapons but did not disclose any findings. The army added that allegations of soldiers "deviating from procedures" during the searches are under investigation by the brigade commander.
On Friday morning, a young settler shepherd complained that he had been assaulted and lightly wounded by Palestinians near Jinba. In footage obtained by Haaretz, the settler who claimed to have been assaulted is seen driving away a herd of sheep and Palestinian shepherds.
Later, a settler mob raided the village and beat six residents with batons. One of the wounded, a 64-year-old man, suffered skull fractures and chest trauma. Four other casualties were hospitalized at the Yatta hospital, including a 15-year-old boy who is currently in the intensive-care unit.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers came to Jinba several hours after the attack. They ordered all the men of the village to get out of their homes, then handcuffed, blindfolded and detained 22 of them. Though the police claimed they had all "taken an active part" in the assault on the shepherd, 17 of the Palestinian detainees were released around midnight.
The villagers said that, overnight into Saturday, the army again raided the village, this time with a much larger force. "Seven soldiers entered each house and told everyone in it, including women and children, to stand in one corner, and they began to destroy everything," recounted Nidal Younes, head of both the Jinba and Masafer Yatta councils.
He added that the soldiers "broke televisions, refrigerators and cameras. They broke the toilets, ripped out faucets, removed food from the pantry and dumped everything onto the ground."
"After one group finished, another group of soldiers destroyed what was left," Younes said. He recalled how one soldier told him, "'You thought you were strong yesterday, now we'll show you that we're stronger.'"
The soldiers left the village on Saturday morning. The villagers, who were still observing Ramadan, did not have time to eat a suhoor meal before the break of dawn, when they must start fasting.
Local residents said that they recognized some of the uniformed men who raided the village as settlers from the area, and that others wore civilian clothing. They added that some of the vehicles used by the soldiers were all-terrain vehicles and civilian cars from nearly outposts.
Lawyer Neta Amar, the villagers' counsel, sent a letter to the army and police this morning, in which she wrote that "The army militia broke all the houses, cameras, school, clinic, and mosque, and killed and drove away sheep."
Local residents said that they recognized some of the uniformed men who raided the village as settlers from the area, and that others wore civilian clothing. They added that some of the vehicles used by the soldiers were all-terrain vehicles and civilian cars from nearly outposts.
Lawyer Neta Amar, the villagers' counsel, sent a letter to the army and police this morning, in which she wrote that "The army militia broke all the houses, cameras, school, clinic, and mosque, and killed and drove away sheep."
^Amar called the incident a "large-scale pogrom and hate crime, a continuation of Friday's hate crimes and pogrom," and said it indicated the "breakdown of any ethical code and any rule of law by the army and the settler militias that have taken it over."
called the incident a "large-scale pogrom and hate crime, a continuation of Friday's hate crimes and pogrom," and said it indicated the "breakdown of any ethical code and any rule of law by the army and the settler militias that have taken it over."^
She demanded that an investigation be opened against the assailants, as well as that the village be protected and compensated for the damages the residents suffered.
Earlier this week, Palestinian activist and co-director of the Oscar-winning film "No Other Land," Hamdan Ballal, was arrested in Masafer Yatta along with two other Palestinians. According to their testimony, Israeli settlers attacked them while Israel Defense Forces soldiers stood by without intervening. Ballal, a well-known Palestinian activist in the area, also said that he was beaten by soldiers while blindfolded and handcuffed. The three detainees were left outside overnight, bound and blindfolded, on the ground at an IDF base.