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And make sure their hands aren’t too banged and scraped up
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Priest at West Bank town attacked by settlers: I filed 14 complaints, police did nothing
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A priest at a West Bank town attacked by settlers in recent days has said he filed multiple complaints over settler violence with Israeli police and that nothing was done.
Father Jack-Nobel Abed, of the Greek Melkite Catholic Church, hosted US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on a tour in Taybeh today.
He told Channel 12 news: “There have already been four arson attacks by settlers in our village. The latest was last Friday near the sixth-century Byzantine church — too close to its walls, which were burned, and to the cemetery walls and the surrounding area. Two weeks ago, they also set fire to our chicken coops.
“When I arrived and saw the damage, I almost cried. Nothing like this has happened to us since I’ve been in the village, for 35 years,” he said.
you greatly underestimate the need to control these evil Greek Melkite Catholic extremists
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US condemns settler ‘act of terror’ on historic Palestinian church
The US has issued a rare condemnation after Israeli settlers were accused of committing an “act of terror” by setting fire near a historic Palestinian church in Taybeh, in the illegally occupied West Bank.
The incident took place on 8 July in Taybeh, a Christian-majority town northeast of Ramallah, where Israeli settlers set fire to land adjacent to a 5th-century Byzantine church and the town’s cemetery. Taybeh, one of the last remaining all-Christian communities in Palestine, has long been targeted by Israeli settlers seeking to displace Palestinians and seize their land.
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, a vocal supporter of Israel’s settlement expansion, visited the site over the weekend and issued a rare rebuke. “It is an act of terror, and it is a crime,” said Huckabee. “Those who carry out acts of terror and violence in Taybeh—or anywhere—should be prosecuted. Not just reprimanded. That’s not enough.”
Israel’s government has yet to comment on the attack, continuing its pattern of silence in the face of growing settler violence. Since the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, human rights organisations have documented thousands of settler assaults on Palestinian homes, farmland, villages, and religious sites throughout the illegally occupied West Bank.
The attack on Taybeh is part of a broader campaign of violence against Palestinian Christians. In Gaza, Christian heritage sites have also come under repeated assault. On 19 October 2023, the Church of Saint Porphyrius, one of the oldest churches in the world, was bombed during an Israeli airstrike, killing at least 18 Palestinians sheltering there.
Two months later, Israeli snipers shot dead a mother and her daughter at the Holy Family Catholic Church, the only Catholic parish in Gaza, where Pope Francis later said he had been calling daily in solidarity with the besieged congregation.
Other historic Christian sites in Gaza, including the Byzantine Church of Jabalia and the Saint Hilarion Monastery, were also damaged during Israeli bombardments. On 17 July 2025, the Holy Family Church compound was shelled again by Israeli tank fire.
Attacks have also intensified in the West Bank. In the days following the Taybeh arson, Israeli settlers stormed the same church compound, this time driving dozens of cattle through the site and desecrating the cemetery.
In occupied East Jerusalem, Christian clergy have reported regular harassment by settlers and far-right activists, including spitting, verbal abuse, and vandalism of church property. In Bethlehem, the Maronite chapel was desecrated in early 2024, and multiple Christian graves were defaced in a cemetery in Mount Zion.
Church leaders in Jerusalem have condemned the attacks, warning that Palestinian Christians are under siege. The US response has been widely seen as contradictory. While Huckabee called for accountability in Taybeh and in the killing of Palestinian-American Saif Musallet—who was beaten to death by settlers earlier this month—Washington continues to shield Israel from consequences for its broader human rights violations.
In January, President Donald Trump reversed sanctions imposed by the previous administration on Israeli settler groups accused of violence against Palestinians. The decision was widely criticised for emboldening settler groups responsible for attacks like the one in Taybeh.
Meanwhile, the US remains silent on the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead by Israeli forces in 2022 while reporting in Jenin. Despite independent investigations confirming Israel’s responsibility, no accountability has followed.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/2...act-of-terror-on-historic-palestinian-church/
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- Those charities are the perfect money laudring. Midle east is the perfect playground of destruction as my beloved ps2 game caled. They have constant conflicts, the westerns were smart in this, they didnt create the desease, but made them more constagious. A constantly need of weapons, a eternal flux of money.
Two UK charities donate millions to Israeli settlement in occupied West Bank
Charity Commission criticised for endorsing transfer of about £5.7m to high school in illegal village of Susyawww.theguardian.com
Two UK charities have transferred millions of pounds to an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank with the endorsement of the charities regulator, the Guardian can reveal.
Documents show that the Kasner Charitable Trust (KCT), via a conduit charity, UK Toremet, has donated approximately £5.7m to the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva high school in Susya, in the Israeli-occupied territory.
In March, settlers launched an attack on the Susiya home of Hamdan Ballal, one of the directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.
In 2016 the Charity Commission wrote to UK Toremet saying: “A donation to a school in the occupied territories would be a donation for the advancement of education and therefore on the face of it a legitimate grant for UK Toremet to make.”
The former Conservative party chair Sayeeda Warsi said: “It’s appalling that any British national should be engaged in funding illegal settlements on occupied land – and it’s even more disturbing that this is being subsidised by all of us taxpayers.
Concerns have previously been raised about charitable donations from the UK to Israeli settlements but this is believed to be the first time there has been a definitive paper trail of a major transfer of funds to an illegal settlement.
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‘I’m afraid to go home’: Israeli soldiers fear prosecution over genocide in Gaza
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has left soldiers serving in the occupation army “afraid” to return “home”, fearing prosecution for war crimes committed during the ongoing assault which has killed more than 58,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
In Canada, where several citizens have served in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), a growing number of those soldiers are reported to be reconsidering trips home after learning they may be under investigation. In June, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) confirmed it had launched a “structural investigation” into crimes committed during the Gaza assault.
The RCMP said it was acting under Canada’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act, which gives Canadian authorities the power to gather evidence and eventually open criminal cases into genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity, even when these crimes happen abroad.
The investigation began in early 2024 and is described as an intelligence-gathering process, but the RCMP has not ruled out future prosecutions. In a statement issued on 4 June, the force clarified: “Should a perpetrator of core international crimes — such as genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity — with the appropriate nexus to Canada be identified, the RCMP will initiate a separate criminal investigation.”
While no charges have been laid, the investigation has already created anxiety among duel Israeli Canadian citizens who served in Gaza. Several have reportedly cancelled trips or sought legal advice. Some fear being detained at the border; others say they have received no support from Israeli officials or consular services.
This comes amid growing international momentum for legal action against those responsible for the mass killing of civilians in Gaza. At least 12 countries, including Brazil, Belgium, and Ireland, have received legal complaints targeting Israeli soldiers for alleged war crimes. In some cases, investigations have begun into individuals identified through open-source evidence such as news footage, social media posts and military records.
One group, the Hind Rajab Foundation, named after a six-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza, has played a leading role in these efforts. The organisation has tracked IDF soldiers, submitted evidence to governments, and filed cases in countries where international law allows for universal jurisdiction.
In Canada, a public website created by journalist Davide Mastracci has listed the names of Canadians who served in the IDF.
Anxiety among Israeli soldiers is further felled by Canada’s shifting policy. The government has halted arms exports to Israel, voted against Israeli actions at the UN, and affirmed its support for Palestinian statehood based on 1967 borders. These actions have fuelled speculation that the government in Ottawa is open to prosecution of Israeli soldiers.
The RCMP’s investigation marks a turning point. Unlike previous Canadian probes into foreign conflicts, including in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, this is the first time Israeli military actions are being examined in this way.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/2...diers-fear-prosecution-over-genocide-in-gaza/
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These settlers are just flat out terrorists. Worse because they have the open stamp of approval from the state. We need to pull support from Israel until they reign their own people in. Peace is not possible while this is allowed to happen
Not just reigned in either. Make it a condition that they return recently stolen land and make reparations to victims of settler violence. Tear down these insane check points. October 7th is no justification for what’s happening now
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Israel to take administrative control over Tomb of Patriarchs for construction work
Civil Administration says move temporary, authority will be returned to Palestinian Hebron municipality when work is finished, but settler council claims it's now in charge at holy site
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Israel to take administrative control over Tomb of Patriarchs for construction work
Civil Administration says move temporary, authority will be returned to Palestinian Hebron municipality when work is finished, but settler council claims it’s now in charge at holy site.
Israeli authorities have said they are taking control of the management of the Tomb of the Patriarchs holy site in Hebron, in order to carry out construction work at the flashpoint West Bank shrine.
According to the Civil Administration, a branch of the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator for Government Affairs in the Territories (COGAT) liaison to the Palestinians, the government has authorized a process whereby Israeli authorities will be able to build a canopy over a courtyard in the Tomb of the Patriarchs complex to provide shade to worshipers.
The Civil Administration has said that the bureaucratic process for enabling this work to go ahead is in its “advanced stages,” and will be for the benefit of “all population groups who pray at the site.
In light of this position, a process for transferring the management authority from the Hebron Municipal Authority to the Civil Administration has been initiated, Israeli officials said.
Officials connected to the religious council of the Hebron-adjacent Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba, however, have claimed that the council will be in charge of carrying out the construction work at the contested site.
The Civil Administration denied this was the case, saying authority for site management would remain in its hands.
It also said that management authority would be restored to the Hebron Municipal Council once the construction work is finished.
Amitai Cohen, an official with the Tomb of the Patriarchs Administration, which runs the Jewish part of the shared holy site, nevertheless stated that the religious council was now in charge of daily operations at the site.
He said he was unaware of any arrangement whereby the management authority would be restored to the Palestinian Hebron Municipal Council.
To clarify how clever they are. The " civil administation"
The Civil Administration is subordinate to a larger entity known as the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories,<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Civil_Administration#cite_note-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a> which is a unit in the Defense Ministry of Israel. Among its functions are coordination with the Palestinian Authority.
Civil Administration is the Israeli military unit responsible for implementing Israel's civilian policy in the occupied West Bank.
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- This wil never happen. Israel has too much saying in US goverment or even in several of UKs ones
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No it won’t unfortunately
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So oppressed.
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Wow they got a mall in the biggest city in the west bank. Mind-blowing. All those settlers expelling villagers from their houses, beating people to death, stealing cattle, harassing grandmas and poisoning water wells are well justified then.
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oh they are pretty much the definition of state-sponsored terrorism. The quietism of the western media on this is incredible. Even the most 'but Oct 7 tho bro' diehard Israeli surrogate should be balanced enough to admit this shit is wrong. I mean, of course they won't, because Online People in general and particularly those on that side of the fence will virtually never admit anything that, like, damages the franchise.
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another Christian church and village attacked by Israeli Colonist-not-'settlers':
The Israeli settlers crept up to the ancient church perched above the West Bank’s last Christian-majority town.
As they reached the outer walls, they crouched down to light a ring of fire. Then they revved the engines of their secret weapons brought to fan the flames: garden leaf blowers.
Residents watched in horror as the blaze spread closer to the Church of St George, which dates back to the fifth century.
The flames were doused, but not for long. That evening, settlers returned to the town of Taybeh with assault rifles. The same happened the next day and three days after that.
Israeli settlers used leaf blowers to spread the fire around the church - Nabd El-Haya
Bashar Fawadleh, the parish priest, told The Telegraph: “Each time we called the Israeli police, but they did not come.
“If they attack our sacred site, they can attack anything of ours.”
Settler attacks on Palestinians are on the rise across the occupied West Bank, where roughly half a million Israelis live in Jewish settlements among three million Palestinians.
Five Palestinians have been killed in the last two weeks in villages and towns not far from Taybeh, including Sinjil where two men, including a dual US citizen, were beaten to death by settlers on July 12, prompting fury from the Trump administration.
While most of the violence is directed against Muslims, settlers have started to attack Palestinian Christian villages like Taybeh.
The once-flourishing Christian community in the West Bank has dramatically shrunk to less than 2 per cent of the population as many emigrated abroad to escape the violence and religious discrimination.
The same has happened in Gaza, where its roughly 1,000 Christians are mostly sheltering in the war-battered Strip’s last three churches, one of which was attacked by Israeli forces last week, killing three civilians.
Father Bashar Fawadleh fears the attacks will drive Christian families from his parish - Maya Levin for The Telegraph
Walking around the scorched earth that now encircles the Church of St George, Father Bashar warned: “This is just the beginning. They want to put fear in our hearts to live here.
“These attacks will bleed the town of people as they leave scared. We have lost 10 families already in the past two years.”
When even the Torygraph is speaking out against an Israeli, you know they are some heinous people doing some heinous shit
The Israeli settlers crept up to the ancient church perched above the West Bank’s last Christian-majority town.
As they reached the outer walls, they crouched down to light a ring of fire. Then they revved the engines of their secret weapons brought to fan the flames: garden leaf blowers.
Residents watched in horror as the blaze spread closer to the Church of St George, which dates back to the fifth century.
The flames were doused, but not for long. That evening, settlers returned to the town of Taybeh with assault rifles. The same happened the next day and three days after that.
Israeli settlers used leaf blowers to spread the fire around the church - Nabd El-Haya
Bashar Fawadleh, the parish priest, told The Telegraph: “Each time we called the Israeli police, but they did not come.
“If they attack our sacred site, they can attack anything of ours.”
Settler attacks on Palestinians are on the rise across the occupied West Bank, where roughly half a million Israelis live in Jewish settlements among three million Palestinians.
Five Palestinians have been killed in the last two weeks in villages and towns not far from Taybeh, including Sinjil where two men, including a dual US citizen, were beaten to death by settlers on July 12, prompting fury from the Trump administration.
While most of the violence is directed against Muslims, settlers have started to attack Palestinian Christian villages like Taybeh.
The once-flourishing Christian community in the West Bank has dramatically shrunk to less than 2 per cent of the population as many emigrated abroad to escape the violence and religious discrimination.
The same has happened in Gaza, where its roughly 1,000 Christians are mostly sheltering in the war-battered Strip’s last three churches, one of which was attacked by Israeli forces last week, killing three civilians.
Father Bashar Fawadleh fears the attacks will drive Christian families from his parish - Maya Levin for The Telegraph
Walking around the scorched earth that now encircles the Church of St George, Father Bashar warned: “This is just the beginning. They want to put fear in our hearts to live here.
“These attacks will bleed the town of people as they leave scared. We have lost 10 families already in the past two years.”
When even the Torygraph is speaking out against an Israeli, you know they are some heinous people doing some heinous shit
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but Hamas and Oct 7, right, the State of Israel has a right to defend itself against terror, right? Oct 7, though.
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Not an expert but the west bank is a different story. The "settlers" there are hard core religions fanatics. They hate everyone that is not one of them thst includes Christians and any other religions. They are no different then hard core Muslims. At one time those settlements were considered illegal if Im not mistaken. Fuck them.
Trump should make Israel control and stop these ass holes as part of any arms deals.
Trump should make Israel control and stop these ass holes as part of any arms deals.
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They're still considered illegal
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Yea they are truly awful people and I mean it when I say they are extremist terrorists. I think it’s time we stop supporting Israel until they reign these pieces of shit in.
Like, the embody everything we hate about Muslim extremist plus this divine right feeling of manifest destiny.
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lets not forget you have a whole complement of Evangelical types in the US who vomit out the phrase 'Deus Vult' like a mantra
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