Violence and terror is what drives their desires for power, wealth and 'superiority'.
Settlers have for decades carried out violence and sabotage against Palestinians with the goal of uprooting them from their homeland. Settler violence against Palestinians can range from physical and verbal assaults, looting of corpses, obstructing Palestinians from reaching their lands, cutting down their olive trees during the harvest season, and killing their livestock. Settlers have also written racist slogans on the walls of Islamic and Christian holy sites in their crusades against Palestinian communities. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, over 1,400 incidents of settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank were recorded in the last year.
In 2014, a 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammad Khdeir was kidnapped by a group of Israeli settlers in East Jerusalem, and then taken to a forest where he was beaten and burned alive.
One year later, three members of the Palestinian Dawabsheh family were burned to death after Israeli settlers set the family’s house on fire in the village of Duma, in the Nablus governorate. An 18-month-old baby was burned alive along with his parents. His brother Ahmad survived but sustained severe burns in 60% of his body including his face.
The recurring incidents of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank directly contradicts Israeli narratives that the situation was fine before October 7 and that Palestinian resistance groups based in the besieged Gaza Strip are the main obstacle to achieving peace. For decades, Israeli propaganda has worked relentlessly to cover up the terrorism, violence, and brutality perpetrated by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) and illegal settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, in addition to the IOF’s frequent aggressions and continuous siege of the Gaza strip.
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