'A new Nakba': settler violence forces Palestinians out of West Bank villages

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/31/west-bank-palestinian-villages-israeli-army-settlers

Life in Zanuta, a Palestinian village atop a windy ridge in the desolate south Hebron hills, deep in the occupied West Bank, has never been easy. The community are mostly herders who raise goats and sheep through the barren landscape’s scorching summers and freezing winters, and who have steadfastly refused to leave their homes despite the mounting difficulties posed by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) soldiers on one hand and radical Israeli settlers on the other.

But after weeks of intense settler violence in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October, Zanuta’s 150 residents have made a collective decision to leave. Armed settlers – some in reservist army uniforms, some covering their faces – have begun breaking into their homes at night, beating up adults, destroying and stealing belongings, and terrifying the children.

After decades of a desperate fight to cling on to their land, the community has decided they have lost.

[unconventional]

1. Theft of Palestinian land continues

Just like how American colonialists stole land from the indigenous population, wiping them out in the process, and ultimately portioning out small areas called reservations.

For the indigenous Palestinians, these reservations are Gaza and the West Bank.

It's no wonder many are calling it genocide and ethnic cleansing. Even as we are witness to it, nothing can be done.

I think we learn nothing from the past

[RussellCattle]

3. True, Mr. Grinder, but please be careful. Someone here on D.U. had a post removed this afternoon.......

……because a cartoon referred to the Gaza Strip as a “prison”.

[disablegamer]

13. yet in another thread they are calling those who disagree with Israel

Hamas supporters and Useful idiots.

[RussellCattle]

2. It is becoming more and more difficult to have any hope for some form of justice for the Palestinians.

[kwolf68]

9. Nope it's over

Israel will wipe them away and the bloodshed will continue for 100 more years or until one side or the other nukes the planet.

[msongs]

4. all going according to the plan nt

[Igel]

5. Some links.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khirbet_Zanuta

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-must-find-solution-for-27-palestinians-whose-village-is-to-be-demolished/

[leftstreet]

6. DURec

[The Magistrate]

7. Israel's Refusal To Police Its Settlers, and Protect The Inhabitants From Them

Is a gross violation of the duties incumbent on an occupying power. One which only compounds the illegality of the settlers' presence in the first place.

[David__77]

8. There is terrorism.

[TeamProg]

12. From which side, dude?

[LiberaBlueDem]

10. Return the stolen lands

The Palestinians need their lands back

[tornado34jh]

11. This is a big reason why I do not support unconditional support to Israel.

That is why I am a harsh critic of the government of Israel. They are not innocent in this conflict.

[JI7]

14. These religious freaks need to be shut down