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SvennoJ on 14 February 2024
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Settler violence organised strategy to dispossess Palestinians: Peace Now

The Israeli settlement watchdog says that “behind every violent settler lies an entire governmental system that supports and funds them”. Peace Now cited as an example, the Har Hevron Regional Council, which initiated the establishment of an illegal agricultural outpost belonging to Yinon Levy, one of the settlers who were imposed American sanctions after evidence of his involvement in violence against Palestinians was received.

“Settler violence is not an isolated incident but rather a part of an organised strategy to dispossess Palestinians of their lands,” it says. The US and several European states have recently imposed sanctions on some settlers, whom it labels as “extremists”. “The settlers on whom sanctions were imposed are not the story; they are merely the branches of a much larger tree. Instead of fixating on four leaves, the focus should be on the forest as a whole,” Peace Now says.



Israel’s defence ministry expects 20,000 more soldiers to need rehabilitation this year

The ministry’s rehabilitation centre says it has dealt with more than 5,500 soldiers since October 7. It expects 20,000 more in the coming year, including 16,000 soldiers with injuries sustained in the war on Gaza. The centre also says it currently helping about 62,000 soldiers, many of whom are physically injured, but also who are suffering from PTSD. It did not provide exact numbers for the latter.

Nvm having to deal with the guilt once the full scale of war crimes becomes known. Israel is sending their youth to be traumatized as well.



Activist expresses defiance after Israel demolishes his home in occupied East Jerusalem

Fakhri Abu Diab has told Al Jazeera that the demolition of his family home by Israel in the neighbourhood of Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, will not end the efforts to protect his ancestral land. “If they demolish our homes, they will not destroy our resolve, and we will remain steadfast in our land,” Abu Diab said.

We reported earlier that the family was forcefully evicted from the home they had been living in for 38 years. The Israeli-run municipality refused to issue a permit for him to build or expand, as is the unwritten rule against Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem. “Its proximity to the Al-Aqsa mosque made this house a target but the idea is to forcibly displace all Palestinians,” he said. “In Gaza, they are trying to expel Palestinians. And on this end, Jerusalem is in the eye of the storm, while Israeli authorities want to rid it of Palestinians and to change the makeup of the population.”

 

Two children among four killed in Israel’s air attacks on southern Lebanon

At least four people have been killed and 11 wounded in two Israeli air raids on the towns of Souaneh and Adshit, in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s civil defence. One woman and her two children were killed in Souaneh, while one person was killed in Adshit.

Israeli aircraft target towns and villages in southern Lebanon with air strikes.

Israeli air attacks reported across Gaza

Al Jazeera correspondents are reporting attacks across Gaza, including in the southern part of the strip, where more than half of the population has sought shelter. Artillery shelling hit the centre of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. Israeli warplanes also carried out repeated raids on the southern neighbourhoods of Gaza City.