The headline is repeated every morning. The numbers differ. No day is too big, but they still lose their lives. Many people were broken by his death. Journalists reporting on the Middle East do not know how to describe the countless murders that have drenched the Holy Land with blood. West Bank The occupation is experiencing its bloodiest year since the Second Intifada. More than 200 Palestinians have died, victims of Israeli violence that soaks up their fertile land every day at sunset. On the 75th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel and the expulsion of thousands of Palestinians, they seek to avenge decades of oppression and punishment with a new wave of attacks that have killed nearly thirty Israelis.
The week isn’t over yet and there are already at least four dead in the context of increased violence. A young Israeli soldier was killed and five others injured this Thursday, after the father of a Palestinian family was killed by his mourners. The day before, an Israeli police killed a 14-year-old boy after stabbing a man at the East Jerusalem tram station. Hours earlier, four Israeli soldiers were injured in an explosion near the convoy that was escorting Jews to Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus. It ended on Wednesday with clashes between Palestinian security guards and militants in Tulkarem that claimed the life of Rami al-Ardah.
Impunity
As the media focus moves away from Israel, His army continues to use unprecedented violence in the last twenty years. In a briefing to the United Nations Security Council last week, Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland was blamed for Israel’s “unilateral actions” such as settlement expansion, the destruction of Palestinian homes and schools and settler violence. “The long-term stalemate in the Middle East peace process is exacerbated by illegal unilateral Israeli actions. irreversible facts He criticized Dmitry Polyanskiy, the representative of Russia, by saying.
By that time, Palestinian society had lost 34 children. “Israeli Army and border police forces they kill Palestinian children with almost no accountability”, condemned Human Rights Watch. According to Israeli human rights group Yesh Din, in the five years from 2017 to 2021, less than 1% of reports of abuses committed by Israeli military forces against Palestinians, including murder and other abuses, led to prosecution. Moreover, impunity goes beyond the uniform, as, according to Yesh Din, 93% of investigations into settler attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank were closed without charge between 2005 and 2022.
one million settlers
Beyond the deaths, physical violence aside, the Palestinian lands are suffering from Israeli aggression. Some ministers in the current far-right government, Increasing the number of settlers in the North West Bank to one million by 2050. Their ambitions have no limits as they plan to increase the settler population of 170,000 in the area they call ‘Samaria’ by almost 500%. To achieve this, a team of engineers, geographers and other experts spent a year preparing the proposal, which included the establishment of new settlements and an airport on the occupied land.
Faced with an international community stuck with empty statements, the Palestinian people are reacting as best they can. About thirty Israelis have been killed this year in retaliation for Palestinian actions. “This violence is fueled and exacerbated by a growing sense of hopelessness about the future,” Wennesland told the UN. The dangerous and volatile void filled by extremists on both sides. Under attack, Palestinians hold their voices to condemn the double standards of the West.
Mustafa Sheta, from the Jenin refugee camp, told the north: “We were very happy when we saw the declarations of support for the Ukrainian resistance against Russia, because it meant that the world recognized the right of the occupied peoples to resist with weapons.” West Bank. “However no one is looking in the right direction Palestine And if they do, that would be calling us terrorists.”, complains El Periódico of the Prensa Ibérica group. Words spoken from afar no longer serve the Palestinians. They demand action as the world did by arming Ukraine and boycotting Russia. They know that the color of their skin is not in their favor. However, they continue to resist as they have for 75 years.