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SvennoJ on 14 December 2023
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LurkerJ said:

No-peace-Middle-East status is being eternalised with our tax money... again and again. 

And this is the propaganda the IDF posts in Israel. They say one thing to Western media, yet the only thing they are 'sorry' about is that these kind of images and footage get noticed outside of Israel.


It's all about feeding / keeping the revenge blood lust going and dehumanizing the enemy to be able to go on making Gaza inhabitable and keep driving Palestinians out of their homes in the West Bank.

And yep, you pay taxes to help build Gaza up again, and pay taxes to help destroy it again. War is a racket.

More psychological warfare in the West Bank

Footage circulating online showing Israeli army officers singing Jewish prayers into the loudspeaker in a local mosque during a raid in Jenin has sparked outrage. “The images emerging from the field are clear: the army is controlled by crazy fanatics,” Ofer Cassif, a communist party member of the Israeli parliament, said on X. The Army Radio reported that the soldiers were removed from operational duty after their superiors investigated the videos.

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said the soldiers should not be held accountable for their actions. “We should give our wonderful fighters full backing and not get involved in disciplinary proceedings in matters that are not supposed to concern the [army], certainly not in wartime,” he was reported as saying by the Army Radio.



The West Bank is starting to be under continuous siege like Gaza

The Israeli military has expanded raids to villages west and south of Jenin, presumably because it now thinks that some of the members of the Palestinian resistance have escaped in that direction. By all accounts, it is a very intense raid.

Israel is putting pressure on the ground and from the air. It is certainly the longest raid Jenin has seen since the second Intifada.

People say they are running out of food supplies, they cannot go out of the house. About 500 men have been rounded up, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society. Most of them, about 400, have been released after questioning, but some needed medical treatment afterwards.



Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says Israeli forces have killed an unarmed Palestinian teen inside a hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, where the Israeli army has been conducting a raid for more than two days now.

“The children were playing and they were throwing stones. We were trying to manage [the situation] because we knew this could be a problem, but we never thought they were going to shoot the child because he was playing inside the hospital compound,” she told Al Jazeera.

Martin also described Israeli soldiers routinely blocking patients from receiving treatment in recent weeks, as well as ordering paramedics and drivers out of ambulances, making them kneel in the street and strip searching them.

“It is very weird because the ambulance [staff] are here all the time and the soldiers are outside the gates of the ER, so they knew who they were. It didn’t make much sense, they are changing their patterns,” she said.

 

Last edited by SvennoJ - on 14 December 2023