WATCH: Settlers hurl burning tires, boulders at Palestinians

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://972mag.com/watch-settlers-hurl-burning-tires-boulders-at-palestinians/112277/

Hundreds of settlers launch dozens of attacks against Palestinians across the West Bank, in the wake of two Palestinian attacks that left four Israelis dead. Rights groups demand the army intervene to protect Palestinians from settler violence.


Israeli settlers carried out dozens of violent attacks across the West Bank over the past two days in the wake of the murders of four Israeli civilians by Palestinians.

In the northern West Bank village of Bur’in masked settlers were filmed rolling boulders and burning tires down a hill toward Palestinians.

Groups of settlers, at times accompanied by the Israeli army, threw stones at and attacked Palestinian residents, who threw stones back at them. The settlers also set fire to a number of Palestinian-owned agricultural fields.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. The soldiers did nothing...

The soldiers did nothing to stop the settler attacks, instead choosing to shoot tear gas, rubber bullets — and reportedly live ammunition — against the Palestinians defending their property.

[CentralMass]

2. Wasnt it Palestianan atacks that killed 4 Israeli's that started it ?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. I'm not really sure where you are going with this.

The short answer is yes. there have been two separate attacks on Israelis.

There have been nearly 50 years of attacks on the citizens of the West Bank.

Neither is justified.

But neither is soldiers standing by, in ugly times or less so, as illegal Israeli colonists attack Palestinians.


I don't condone the violence on either side, but there are definitely circumstances that cannot be ignored in it all.

[Scootaloo]

4. Are Palestinians collectively responsible?

If they are, then so are Israelis. Fair is fair.

[bemildred]

5. It started long ago, not last week. nt

[geek tragedy]

6. it started decades, if not centuries ago nt