The unprecedented surge of Israel killing children in the West Bank
JVL Introduction
How can Palestinian parents keep their children safe in the West Bank? It is nearly impossible; parents try to keep their children away from violence but the violence comes anyway. This Guardian article is a collection of heartbreaking stories from West Bank families whose children have been killed over the past year. This is not a new phenomenon but deaths have risen exponentially over the past year. We are rightly mostly focused on the genocide in Gaza where death is everywhere but death also stalks Palestinian children in the West Bank and the dramatic escalation of killing since October 7th 2023, must also be remembered and resisted.
However, for soldiers and even settlers who kill Palestinian children are rarely, if ever held to account as this article makes clear.
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This article was originally published by The Guardian on Tue 19 Nov 2024. Read the original here.
‘Total oppression’: West Bank children being killed at unprecedented rate
Huge rise in attacks by Israeli settlers and soldiers killed 171 children in the year after 7 October
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The Guardian of Hypocrisy is obliged to acknowledge the self-righteous mass killings of the indigenous people, inclusive of lots of children, by the ultra well armed terrorist state of Israel and its vile political establishment backers, funders and weapon providers in the USA and in our own country. It is so wrong. It is really evil. As said before on JVL blogs, it is as if being persecuted and murdered leaves a legacy of righteousness to succeeding generations to persecute and murder others who are in a weaker position.
As we are constantly reminded by the establishment mass media, the big offence of the generally helpless indigenous people was a limited reprisal raid against the Israeli oppressors who had inflicted vastly more violence.
The BBC is in the same camp as the G. It gave 3mins in total on their Sunday morning non-news programme on R4 Broadcasting House to the truck crashing into a bus/queue in Tel Aviv. At the time of the broadcast about 30 or so had been injured (one later died). The driver of the truck was shot dead by armed citizens. At the time of this incident Israel was bombing the hell out of Gaza and Lebanon but the bus queue trumped the lot: it happened to Israelis, who clearly are more important than Arabs plus its rarity made it news. This story was repeated in most newspapers and broadcasts, revealing the hypocritical one-sided reportage on the never ending massacre in Gaza/West Bank and now Lebanon. Tomorrow the world.