Soumaya Ghannoushi, a writer and expert in Middle East politics, says that Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank is not a series of isolated attacks but part of a wider campaign of displacement. In Qusra, Palestinian families have been trapped inside their homes as settlers cut water and electricity, attacked houses and gathered outside armed, while Israeli soldiers failed to protect them.
Ghannoushi says the same pattern is repeating across the West Bank. Homes are attacked, cars torched, farmers beaten, livestock stolen and olive trees destroyed. She points to human rights groups that have warned of mass atrocities and ethnic cleansing, while B’Tselem describes the relationship simply as “Settler Violence = State Violence.”
Ghannoushi points to the growing militarisation of settlers and Israel’s expanding settlements, arguing that “the machinery of annexation is advancing”. She says the West Bank exposes the weakness of claims that Israel’s violence against Palestinians is simply a response to Hamas, because Hamas does not govern there, yet Palestinians are still being killed, displaced and stripped of their land.
She concludes by asking why Western discourse constantly invokes Israel’s right to exist, security and self-defence while denying Palestinians the same questions. “The West asks Palestinians to disarm,” she writes. “But who will disarm the armed settlers storming their villages?”
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