The Shock Troops of Ethnic Cleansing
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That they are Israeli is just sickening given the history, but they don’t care:
Israeli settlers beat a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank, stripped him naked, tied his arms and legs and then zip-tied his penis, he, his family members and another witness said on Wednesday.
“I thought I was going to die,” the man, Suhaib Abualkebash, a 29-year-old shepherd, told The New York Times. “I thought this was the end.”
Several family members and an American woman corroborated details of Mr. Abualkebash’s account, saying they witnessed the sexual assault on Friday by several men among a group of more than 20 settlers who marauded though a Bedouin encampment. The relatives and the American said they had been beaten, too, adding that the assailants had kicked and slapped children during the attack. Family members also shared copies of reports they had filed to the Israeli police.
Israeli settlers have been waging an escalating campaign of violence and land theft against Palestinians across much of the West Bank. It has intensified as Israeli attitudes toward Palestinians have hardened since the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the war that ensued.
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The attack took place in a patch of fertile land known as Khirbet Humsa, in the northern Jordan Valley. Once the home of hundreds of Bedouin, it has been reduced to a few small encampments in hollows between low-rising hills opposite the Israeli settlements of Beka’ot and Roi.
Generally speaking, Palestinians and human rights activists say, much settler violence in recent years has followed a pattern that can take months to play out. It begins with intimidation or restrictions — official or unofficial — on movement, then escalates with beatings or harsher violence targeting men.
Many Palestinians who have abandoned their villages recently have said that the last straw was threats or attacks against women and children.
In Khirbet Humsa, the escalation appears to have been more abrupt.
One afternoon a few weeks ago, according to the Abualkebash family, a settler herding cattle led his animals to within a few steps of the family’s tents. Family members interpreted this as a threat.
About a week later, after midnight, the shepherds saw a drone fly over their compound and then saw settlers approaching from the direction of Beka’ot, Mr. Abualkebash said.
“Our dogs followed them, and they shot one of our dogs,” he said
Everyone is focused on Gaza, and for an obvious reason. But what is happening in the West Bank–open, naked, brutal, awful violence that the Israeli people by and large don’t give a shit about it–is almost as disgusting. The settlers are Stephen Miller and they just don’t care.