With Israeli rabbi's blessing, settlers are stealing Palestinians' olive harvest; with IDF support, settlers are beating both Palestinians and int'l visitors. That's not all.
The settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives and beat Heidi Levine, a veteran photojournalist. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers did nothing to halt the violence.
“No Palestinians in the West Bank are exempt from this threat, including Christian communities and institutions,” said Bishop Dr Imad Haddad of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land
Indiscriminate, disproportionate bombing killed massive numbers of Gazans (as Palestinian reporters have said for 3 years); new levels of Israeli settler barbarity; more
Settler violence turns West Bank harvest into a nightmare ■ More Israeli testimony implicates IDF for massive civilian casualties ■ Israel's detention, torture of Syrians ■ More
NYT: David Milstein, a top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities. Milstein is the stepson of right-wing radio host Mark Levin
While mainstream media covered the flydubai incident ad nauseum, Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank were killing Palestinians and marauding their land
Then, Zaid said, the beatings began. “It hurt so much I couldn’t breathe, and it’s then that I told them what they wanted to hear," - that he had been throwing stones
Israeli soldiers have demolished an entire West Bank village and killed two teenagers, continuing a surge of violence against Palestinians in the occupied territory
Violent settlers raided land owned by a Palestinian family on Rosh Hashanah and attacked the father with spiked clubs. When his sons rushed to his aid, one of them suffered a shattered leg, cracked ribs and damage to his lungs
Israeli soldiers invaded communities across the West Bank on Wednesday, abducting at least 22 Palestinians, including 3 children and 2 employees of the Islamic Association for Orphan Care. Soldiers also broke into homes, assaulted residents, & fired gas bombs
A leaked letter signed by 2 former prime ministers, former heads of all Israeli security services, former judges, & Nobel laureate demanded Israel stop extreme violence and ideology of ethnic cleansing