Demolitions in the West Bank – trauma on trauma
JVL Introduction
Ethnic cleansing, settler attacks have been increasing at an alarming rate over recent years and most especially since October 7th 2023. Nearly ten months on, only exceptional actions within continuous pulverising of Gaza are considered “news” house demolitions, displacements as well as settler threats and attacks barely get mentioned so inured have we become to this as “normal”. For Palestinians too, this is the background, the white noise that accompanies their presence and their determination but there is a terrible cost. Here Awdah Hathaleen has grown up with this as a constant theme of his life and he now worries about how the intergenerational trauma from the ongoing Nakba will affect the next generation, including his own children.
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This article was originally published by +972 Magazine on Mon 22 Jul 2024. Read the original here.
In Umm al-Khair, the occupation is damning us to multigenerational trauma
I saw the first bulldozers arrive in my village 17 years ago. Now, after the most brutal weeks in our history, my son will carry similarly painful memories.
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Shocking settler greed, backed by the Zionist state.. What on earth would the militants of the Warsaw ghetto have made of these scenes, let alone of what has been done to Gaza? Not since the Algerian War have we ever had anything like this from a settler colonialist regime!
Can we not just recognise that these are acts of ethnic cleansing by illegal colonisers?
I hope all these instances have been documented as this one has. There must be hundreds if not thousands. Are these instances being sent to the ICJ?