Afrasianet - Dr. Hani Al-Aqqad - The face of Israel may not need more and more bloody terrorist attacks on Palestinian citizens and their properties in all areas of the West Bank to become more ugly, but the settler attacks carried out by these modern and old-fashioned Zionist gangs increase their details, which were absent from many in this world who believe that Israel represents the face of democracy in the world and respects international conventions and treaties that believe in the right of everyone to life, the right to food, housing, security and stability.

These hostile acts have revealed to the world, just like the genocide war in Gaza, the true face of Israel, which various Israeli governments have always tried to beautify with false narratives. All these attacks and terrorist acts come through different gang formations granted by Netanyahu's coalition government and provided them with funding, weapons, legal and security cover, and they were trained in army camps.

And some of these settlers are members of various units in the army, and these gangs work with a single methodology and plans developed in advance by the leaders of the settlements and the extreme right, and all of them carry out their attacks in the same way, which is to launch successive attacks on Palestinian communities in nearby villages.

Neighborhoods and towns starting from the major settlements with the aim of launching successive attacks on Palestinian communities in nearby villages, neighborhoods and towns starting from the major settlements Forcing the Palestinian population to voluntarily migrate from these towns, only to be taken over by these herds and to establish new outposts on the ruins of their homes and Palestinian civil structure, or to expand their large settlements, which have become a threat to Palestinian geography by dismembering Palestinian cities and depriving Palestinian citizens of safe geographical and social contact.

The settlers' attacks include assaulting the citizens themselves, burning their property and cars, and poisoning their livestock and sheep, as happened in the village of Al-Mughayyir, in the area of "Al-Khalil" east of Ramallah a few days ago, and in many cases, the settlers steal cattle and sheep and take them to their settlements, in addition to attacking the olive pickers as they do every year, and stealing their olives, which they collected in full view of the world, with the security and operational support of the occupation forces, who often shoot at Palestinian citizens not to terrorize them, but to kill them, and thus She is involved in every detail of the crime.

A few days ago, a group of settlers launched a large-scale attack on industrial and agricultural facilities near the town of (Beit Lid) east of Tulkarm, which led to the outbreak of large fires and the injury of a number of citizens, and the settlers set fire to a large number of citizens' vehicles inside the industrial zone known as "Al-Ladeen", including four trucks belonging to the Al-Junaidi Dairy Factory, which led to its complete destruction, and the settlers attacked the cow farms and killed about 60 sheep of the cattle and injured a number of others. Perhaps this goal goes beyond the displacement of citizens, but also harms their economy and hits their local products in front of the settlers' products, which no longer find a place in the local Palestinian market.

The matter goes beyond burning the property of Palestinian citizens, burning their homes, fields, cars, and filling their artesian wells, to attacking the citizens themselves by beating them with batons and sharp instruments, in addition to shooting from weapons licensed to them by the Israeli Ministry of Security, which is headed by Ben Gvir, the owner of the project to arm the settlers and give them the authority to carry out such attacks under the protection of Israeli law, and this is what happened in the villages of Masafer Yatta in Hebron when the settler herds attacked the village of Khirbet al-Markaz, south of Hebron, and assaulted the residents by beating them. A number of them were injured and bruised, and the matter was not limited to the assault on the citizens, but also the theft, ploughing, sowing and even seizing the ownership of thousands of dunums in Hebron, the Jordan Valley and many areas by the occupation army under the pretext that they are special military areas for training the Israeli army, and then the army hands them over to the settlers.

And this shows the level of coordination between the settler gangs and the army, and this is what all previous attacks on the villages of Beita, Khirbet Abu Salah, Deir 'Ola in Bethlehem and Masafer Yatta in Hebron revealed. Deir Sharaf, Cyrenaica, Madama, Naqoura, Douma, Ihmer, Aqraba, Qaryut, Beita, Hawara in Nablus Governorate, Farata in Qalqilya Governorate, Khirbet Abziq, Khirbet Samra, Bardala, Khirbet Al-Maleh in Tubas Governorate, Burqin in Salfit Governorate, Al-Mughayyir, Arab Al-Jahalin, Kober, Wadi Al-Khalil, Turmusaya in Ramallah Governorate, Khirbet (Khader) in Persian, and Bedouin Al-Ma'arajat in the Jordan Valley. Prior to October 2023, the settlers' focus and goal was the northern Jordan Valley areas to completely separate them from the West Bank. 

Of these, 662 attacks on the property of Palestinian citizens, 522 attacks on citizens, 455 attacks on crops, and 361 attacks on land, in addition to various attacks amounting to 153 attacks, which reached the peak of the attacks last June, where it reached 537 attacks, a significant difference from May, when the settlers' attacks amounted to 415 attacks.

Settler attacks today have become an organized and directed daily situation carried out by known gangs that operate in broad daylight and under the protection of the Israeli government, which does not even bother to deport the settlers and these gangs through Palestinian ambulance and fire brigades after these gangs carry out their attacks. We now expect that the coming months will be bloody months, and the pace of violence by these settlers may increase in the coming period, so that these gangs, including the so-called "Hilltop Youth", are trying to find a bloc within the right-wing Zionist parties, including the Likud, in an attempt to take full control of these parties with members. The organization will nominate delegates to the Likud Central Council in the Binyamin Branch (the name given to the settlements in the Ramallah area, its suburbs and the central West Bank).

It seems that the Netanyahu government is giving the settlers terrorist organizations alternative roles to the government's roles in a policy that has become understandable to seek to annex the West Bank informally and impose broad control over most of the Palestinian communities, after the United States blocked a draft resolution in the Knesset to effectively annex the West Bank.

The West Bank officially because this annexation is considered one of the most serious violations under international law.

This flagrant violation of international law and tampering with the four Geneva Conventions requires the international community to intervene immediately and put pressure on the government of Israel to stop the violence of the settlers and turn off the green lights given to them to burn, kill, destroy, confiscate and act as if they were the actual government, because they are the real face of the Jewish state and their control over the land in the West Bank is one of the most important elements of imposing Israeli sovereignty on the West Bank, and this would destroy any attempts by the international parties to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and even on the one hand. Others are fueling the conflict, increasing hatred and paving the way for a never-ending cycle of violence in the West Bank.

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