Armed Israeli settlers continue to attack Palestinians families in ongoing programs across the occupied West Bank.
Yielding weapons and committing arson, settler attacks have been reported in the villages of Al Mughayir, Al-Mazra’a Al-Gharbiya, Duma and Qusra.
Israeli Security Minister Ben-Gvir began arming Israeli settler militias, called “security teams,” in October of 2023.
Since then, violence against Palestinians in the West Bank by settlers has massively increased.
In his time serving as Security Minister in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government, Israeli gun ownership has soared. He has passed multiple amendments making it much easier for Israeli citizens to buy guns, expediting the process and lessening the eligibility requirements.
By November of 2023 the Israeli government reported the establishment of over 700 new settler militias, and the arming of over 120,000 Israeli civilians.
These pograms on Palestinians by Israeli settlers, enabled and supported by Israeli soldiers, are the result of the Israeli government’s ongoing military occupation and oppression of Palestinians.
The Israeli government enables these atrocities against Palestinians, even as it is supported by the US government.
With full backing from the US, the Israeli government is brutally and forcibly imposing the goal of Zionism: creating a Jewish ethnostate on the premise of “maximum land with minimum Palestinians,” which entails the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land.
The Israeli government’s genocidal war is a continuation of the Nakba, and with the same goals the Israeli state has perpetuated for 75 years: the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land. In the midst of the Israeli military’s ongoing genocide, we vehemently oppose these atrocities and call for an immediate ceasefire.
We remain steadfast in our dedication to a future of justice and safety for all, for a future free of Zionism and colonialism.
