Video: Israeli soldiers protect settlers as they attack Palestinians

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem today released six damning videos of heavily-armed Israeli soldiers escorting Israeli settlers as they hurl stones at Palestinians and set fire to their olive groves.

In the above video, Israeli soldiers are embedded within a group of masked settlers from the Yitzhar settlement in the northern occupied West Bank. The footage shows soldiers — crouching among settlers who are slinging stones — while they fire tear gas canisters in the same direction. 

In another video, soldiers stand idly by as they watch settlers set fire to Palestinian fields belonging to the village of Urif:





The video below shows a settler helping a soldier load tear gas canisters into his launcher while other settlers throw stones with slingshots.

“Settler rampage”

The videos were filmed on 3 and 4 October by B’Tselem volunteers. In a press release accompanying the videos, B’Tselem calls the footage “the most blatant example of the tacit support of the settler rampage by forces on the ground.”

The group also points out that the military is “shirking” its obligation to provide protection to Palestinians as stated under international law.

“The soldier not only refrains from stopping the settlers, but on the contrary, is helped by a masked settler who carries his military backpack containing tear-gas canisters, and even loads the canisters onto the soldier’s six-shot launcher,” B’Tselem states.

The Israeli government has declared a “war” on stone throwers — but only when the stone throwers are Palestinian.
Settlers in Yitzhar, which is located on a hilltop, regularly harass Palestinians in the villages of Burin and Urif below.

Impunity

Meanwhile, Israeli settlers and soldiers enjoy impunity as the numbers of injured and dead Palestinians rise. 
Ma’an News Agency reports that on Thursday, Israeli forces shot and killed 20-year-old Wissam Faraj in Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem during an invasion. Since Saturday, Israeli military forces have injured 800 Palestinians, 60 of whom were shot with live fire.

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors settlement activity in the West Bank, says there have been more than 130 settler attacks on Palestinians in the last week.

Israeli legal rights group Yesh Din says it has received dozens of complaints from Palestinians who are reporting their vehicles and homes being stoned at junctions, attempts at arson and home break-ins and the torching of their farmland.

Some West Bank villages are forming patrols to guard their residents from settler attacks, a trend that has increased since the July firebombing by Israeli settlers of a Palestinian home in Duma. That attack killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha and his parents.

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B'Tselem - ISRAELI peace group

You can't call the settlers 'civilians' when they work with the IDF and under their protection to commit atrocities.  And still no justice for the baby and parents they burnt to death, or the teenager they made drink petrol, doused him in it and set him on fire.

His stomach blew up - report here http://nodisinfo.com/rabid-zionist-jews-burnt-palestinian-youth-alive/

Good stuff

smelly-bandit wrote:Good stuff

all the endless threads on Palestine are just to bore you to death you know

Meanwhile Hamas just lobbed a another rocket into Israel, are they supposed to just sit there and take it?

Palestinians don't want peace, this Rocket attack proves it. Now when Israel retaliates Sassy will be frothing at the mouth!

So did you know, before the rockets were sent, that didn't actually reach Israel and are like large fireworks, the most they could damage is a car:

Israeli gun boats killed three Gazan fishermen while fishing

Israeli bulldozers came across the border with an armed escort and flattened farmers fields

Israelis shot and killed two farmers in their fields

Israelis shot from the watchtowers on the edge of the fence and killed seven holding a peaceful protest of their side of the divide.

Did you know - no of course you didn't.  Do I give a fuck what you rant on about, no I don't.

Next time you have trouble sleeping, go ask someone else for advice.

nicko wrote:Meanwhile Hamas just lobbed a another rocket into Israel,      are they supposed to just sit there and take it?

ironic and hypocritical these jew haters

on one hand they whine and ask "what would you do if you were palestinian and you were being attacked........BLAH BLAH BLAH"

of ocurse they dont seem to want to apply this to the israelis and what they should or would be doing if being attacked

sassy wrote:So did you know, before the rockets were sent, that didn't actually reach Israel and are like large fireworks, the most they could damage is a car:

Israeli gun boats killed three Gazan fishermen while fishing

Israeli bulldozers came across the border with an armed escort and flattened farmers fields

Israelis shot and killed two farmers in their fields

Israelis shot from the watchtowers on the edge of the fence and killed seven holding a peaceful protest of their side of the divide.

Did you know - no of course you didn't.  Do I give a fuck what you rant on about, no I don't.

Next time you have trouble sleeping, go ask someone else for advice.

its irrelevant since the reason they didnt reach israel is because israel has superior technology, not becase they are "like large fireworks" which is about as true as saying a tank is like a large car

Seriously, claiming the rockets used by Hmas, have a similiar damage level, by claiming they are comparable to large fireworks.
It beggrs belief and is not the first time she has claimed this. Also not only that where we have had Sassy also claim wounds from rubber bullets the other day were explosive bullets. You cannot make it up how on both claims, was done so intentially to decieve posters with inaccurate claims. For someone to claim to know the conflict very well, Sassy was either clearly knowing she was lying based off casulaties and damage to Israel by rocket attacks or most likley the case, has little knowledge of the Israeli/Palestinians conflict We have seen these exact same claims coming from the Hamas propaganda machine.

So the most they could damage is a car, according to Sassy?



Israeli boy standing in the remains of his home after it was destroyed by a Qassam rocket

There have been 50 fatalities and appporx 1900 injured from rocket attacks. Let alone the homes damaged and destroyed from such attacks. Now the Iron dome does work effectivelly well, but it is not full proof.

So why is this the second time Sassy has poorly attempted to now play down the rocket attacks as a threat failing also to understand the Physcological effetc on the Israelis facing such continued attacks. They have of course limited time to reach bomb shelters. Which at least Israel with its money builds bomb shelters to protect its citiens. Where as Hamas on the other hand has not built any civillian bomb shelters. There idea is to use civillians to protect their weaponary and waste money building tunnels to attack israel. Now of course the reason Sassy is saying this is because she is poorly attempting to deligitimze their threat. That then Israel to her has no legitimate right to retaliate with air strikes.
That is what she is poorly trying to do. This is what Hamas supporters always do, try to deligitimize. Well al;l can see how underhanded and poor that is to do, but I expect nothing less. So I shall leave Richard Kemp, to explain why Israel has a legitimate right to defend itself by retaliation strikes.



Have a good evening everyone

sassy is a hateful old woman who spams the forum relentlessly with anti Israel posts.

Apart from Irn no one takes a blind bit of notice of her rants. Didge tries to point out the truths to her but she's too consumed with hatred to take any notice of him.

nicko wrote:
sassy is a hateful old woman who spams the forum relentlessly with anti  Israel posts.

Apart from Irn no one takes a blind bit of notice of her rants.  Didge tries to point out the truths to her but she's  too consumed with  hatred to take any notice of him.

Correct

But its quite funny watching Walter adopt this new stance on Israel

He used to agree with sassy ,guess he finally picked up a history book.

It does amaze me that so called intelligent people can adopt this anti Israel stance ,but then again clever, sane and normal people supported the Nazis party

nicko wrote:
sassy is a hateful old woman who spams the forum relentlessly with anti  Israel posts.

Apart from Irn no one takes a blind bit of notice of her rants.  Didge tries to point out the truths to her but she's  too consumed with  hatred to take any notice of him.

Yep must be a miserable life being so full of hate all the time , she does have her faithful lap dogs though who dare not disagree with her

smelly-bandit wrote:

nicko wrote:Meanwhile Hamas just lobbed a another rocket into Israel,      are they supposed to just sit there and take it?

ironic and hypocritical these jew haters

on one hand they whine and ask "what would you do if you were palestinian and you were being attacked........BLAH BLAH BLAH"

of ocurse they dont seem to want to apply this to the israelis and what they should or would be doing if being attacked

I think sassy is a liar she told me she has jewish blood , but i find that hard to believe as nobody would turn against their bloodline the way she does .

smelly-bandit wrote:

nicko wrote:
sassy is a hateful old woman who spams the forum relentlessly with anti  Israel posts.

Apart from Irn no one takes a blind bit of notice of her rants.  Didge tries to point out the truths to her but she's  too consumed with  hatred to take any notice of him.

Correct

But its quite funny watching Walter adopt this new stance on Israel

He used to agree with sassy ,guess he finally picked up a history book.

It does amaze me that so called intelligent people can adopt this anti Israel stance ,but then again clever, sane and normal people supported the Nazis party

didge has been defending Israel for months to be fair and he has put up some good truths too when sassy has posted lie after lie .

Vicar Of Dibley wrote:

smelly-bandit wrote:

Correct

But its quite funny watching Walter adopt this new stance on Israel

He used to agree with sassy ,guess he finally picked up a history book.

It does amaze me that so called intelligent people can adopt this anti Israel stance ,but then again clever, sane and normal people supported the Nazis party

didge has been defending Israel for months to be fair and he has put up some good truths too when sassy has posted lie after lie .

yeah i know that he has now chosen to defend israel , which for once puts him in the right