Settler violence backed by impunity of Israel: Human rights group
Apr 16, 2024 #IsraelWar #OccupiedWestBank #IsraeliArmy
Two Palestinians have been killed in the village of Khirbet al-Tawil, near Nablus, in th
Apr 16, 2024 #IsraelWar #OccupiedWestBank #IsraeliArmy
Two Palestinians have been killed in the village of Khirbet al-Tawil, near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Wafa news agency is reporting they were shot by Israeli settlers.
The flare-up in violence follows the disappearance of a 14-year-old settler, whose body was found on Saturday.
Wesam Ahmad, head of the Al-Haq human rights group’s Center for Applied International Law, says the rise in settler violence in the occupied West Bank is linked to the war on Gaza and emboldened by Israel’s sense of “impunity”.
“There’s a strong symbiotic relationship between the Israeli occupying forces and Israeli settlers working in collaboration to various levels or, at the very least, the Israeli occupying forces allowing the settlers to carry out these attacks without doing anything to prevent them,” Ahmad told Al Jazeera.
He explained that the Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank, has “very limited” power.
“I think it’s inherent for the international community to step in. This is a context of coloniser and colonised, and the idea that the colonised with their limited capacity can confront the coloniser in this asymmetrical power dynamic is absurd. This is where the international community needs to step up,” he added.
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