As usual, the
Israeli state has responded to the tragic deaths of three young Jews,
with massive disproportionate violence. Apart from the 40 air strikes
in Gaza since the bodies were found, prior to the finding of the
bodies, the Israeli government unleashed a massive violent collective
punishment on the people of Gaza. This included a violent rampage of
Israeli troops and police, breaking into and ransacking over 1,500
homes, schools and businesses, setting off explosions in Palestinian
homes, the arrest of more than 500 residents, most held without
charge or trial, over 100 were injured and at least 6 have died one
aged 14 from a bullet to the chest and one 78 year old woman from a
heart attack, while her house was being ransacked. On top of this,
the 680,000 residents of greater Hebron have been surrounded by angry
settlers and troops.
Where else on
this earth would this sort of treatment of brutal collective
punishment be accepted on the death of three youths. Across the
planet, sadly, young people are murdered, but in no city in any
country would this type of brutal collective punishment be tolerated
without international outrage. Only the Israeli state can get away
with this genocide, while the international community looks the other
way. Only the Palestinian people can be treated in this manner and be
left to suffer in the silence of the international community.
While the
Israel state spouts peace, it stokes the fires of hate, with its
brutal genocide of the Palestinian people.
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