Settlers killed a Palestinian teen. Israeli forces didn't stop it. From Washington Post

[Nanjeanne]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/01/09/israel-settler-violence-qusra-west-bank/]
Free Link https://archive.is/zyU7A]

The threats were sent via Facebook on Oct. 9 to residents of Qusra, a Palestinian community in the Israeli-occupied West Bank: “To all the rats in the sewers of Qusra village we are waiting for you and we will have no mercy. The day of revenge is coming.”

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A Washington Post review of exclusive visuals of the attack, medical records and interviews with witnesses and first responders reveals that one of the Palestinians killed, 17-year-old Obada Saed Abu Srour, was shot in the back by settlers, probably as he was running from gunfire.

Israeli troops, meanwhile, did not forcefully intervene, despite their obligation under international and Israeli law to protect all residents of the West Bank, including Palestinians. Soldiers and police were photographed at the scene of the deaths only after the attack ended, even though troops stationed at nearby military outposts were within earshot of the gunfire and had views of an earlier attack by settlers, the visual evidence shows.

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Abu Srour, the eldest of four children, with aspirations to become a policeman after finishing high school, was killed along with civil engineer and new father Muath Raed Odeh, 29. They were trying to protect the home of 30-year-old blacksmith Awad Mahmoud Odeh from attack. Musab Abdel Halim Abu Rida, 20, who worked in the fields and could always make his grandmother laugh, was killed near Abu Srour.

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In the month after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, more than 800 Palestinians were displaced from their West Bank homes amid increased violence by the radical Israeli settler movement, which has long held the aim of expelling Palestinians and expanding the Jewish footprint in the occupied territories. Between Oct. 7 and Jan. 4, more than 300 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank by Israeli troops or settlers, a dramatic increase in the rate of killing in the last months of 2023, the deadliest year since the United Nations began recording casualties in 2005.

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[hlthe2b]

1. 😢

There are no words... Just helplessness.

[atreides1]

2. Maybe

They were Hamas?

[claudette]

3. 🥲

So disgusting

[ck4829]

9. Indeed

[Lonestarblue]

4. The Israeli settlers are right-wing terrorists who have been allowed to murder Palestinians with impunity.

Every one of them needs to be forced out of the West Bank. Instead Israel announced that they are opening the Palestinian land in East Jerusalem for Israeli settlement, which will only cause more violence and allow the IDF to murder Palestinians who resist being forced out of their homes.

[Bettie]

5. But...but...but, it's OK for the Israelis to take the land

because....um, well, they will find a reason and declare that the people living there are terrorists....then, they'll kill them and move on to the next piece of land they want. Over and over and they'll just keep doing it until they are satisfied.

Spoiler alert: They will never be satisfied, it will never be enough for the right wing settlers.

[Arazi]

6. Not sure anyone other than far right fanatics believe that

It seems to be one of the few globally accepted truths in this mess that the settlers are utterly wrong and must be removed (along with agreement on Netanyahu’s removal too)

[Bettie]

7. And yet, no one stop the settlers

and Netanyahu keeps coming back.

I'll believe it when I see it.

[questionseverything]

10. Except bibi and the far right are in charge so anyone supporting them supports their atrocities

[ck4829]

8. Disgusting act of terrorism

[ck4829]

11. ...