‘They attack us without provocation’: West Bank town mourns its dead after settler raid | West Bank

TOn Thursday morning, the men from the Conquest came to add bright primary colors to a grieving scene to make more flags along the main streets, but they did nothing to alleviate the feeling of helplessness.

Three people from this Central West Bank town lay dead, and the others were still in the hospital after the attack of about 100 Israeli settlers on Wednesday evening. Kafr Malik’s men saved women and children trapped in a house burning by masked attackers to create a screen against the settlers.

However, when they threw stones at the settlers to take them back, the Israeli army, who took positions behind the marauders, opened fire on the Palestinians.

“Their children are really valuable to them, but the children of other people are worthless, Mohammed Sabry said, swollen from a night crying. His 18 -year -old son Lutfi was one of the dead.

“There is no such reason for the blood of the Palestinian people, Sab said Sabry said. “They attack us without provocation and young people are shot by the army when women and children go to defend. The bitter truth is that the world’s bloodshed of the Palestinian people without doing anything about it.”

Afı Hamayel has the misfortune of having a house on the southeast of the city and took the burden of the settler attack. “They threw gas bombs in my car and then threw them through the window, Hay Hayamel said, friends, helped to remove the charred personal effects from the house.

Hamayel’s large family, including six children – 20 people – took refuge in the house when the attack began. When he started to burn, a neighbor ran down the slope to help them escape.

“He was helping me to evacuate the children. He took them home and came back when the army hit him on his head,” he said. Neighboring 35 -year -old Mershid Hamayel was listed as three people killed on Wednesday.

The settlers sprayed a black message on the wall around Afı Hamayel’s house and declared that the attack was revenge on the murder of two settlers on Eli two years ago, which was about 9 miles (15 km) in the north.

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) claimed that they had entered the fire in terms of Kafr Malik on Wednesday night. However, this was decisively rejected by the inhabitants, IDF did not produce any evidence, and there was no injury report between the settlers.

Five settlers participating in the attack were detained. According to press reports and human rights activists, it was released early on Thursday morning without paying.

In Kafr Malik, a fluffy brown and black tent was built next to the central mosque for awakening, and long green plastic chairs were drawn for mourning from every corner of the town.

Palestinian flags, the main fraction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, was hanging on the surrounding streets alongside the yellow poster of Fatah. Despite the attacks of Kafr Malik, it was a brand work that shows the ongoing loyalty to the Palestinian Authority (PA), where Fatah was dominant. At least he pointed out that this town did not go to Hamas.

Fatah poster is decorated with past resistance motifs, the attack rifles over a grenade passed, but the challenging symbolism has long been emptied with meaning long ago.

Kafr Malik is about 8 miles northeast of Ramallah, the seat of PA, but it is located in the B area, which means that PA should provide civil governance when IDF is responsible for security. The Palestinian police have no jurisdiction there. Even in the A region where they are responsible, they do nothing to protect the Palestinians from external attacks.

In recent years, more and more, Palestinians in the West Bank remained unpunished. Through the Gaza War, the Lebanese War and now the Iranian War, the death money between the Palestinians in the West Bank continues to grind up in a harmonious campaign to remove them from their territory. Since the beginning of the Gaza conflict, UN says943 Palestinian settlers or security forces were killed, this year more than 140.

This week, the mourning tent was placed in Kafr Malik for the second time. Ammar Hamayel, a 13 -year -old child on Monday, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers while going out in the olive gardens in the city with his brother. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, he was the 29th child shot by the Israeli forces in the West Bank this year.

After killing, IDF said that men had thrown stones in the direction of patrol, referring to them as a “terrorist ve and offered them as a reason that he died using the attack rifles.

Afı Hamayel is a relative of the dead child, who is part of the same large clan. The brothers said they caught birds with nets between the trees. Hamayel has four girls and two boys, and these days the garden does not allow them to go beyond the fence.

The landscape from the Family House is looking at the farmland of the Jordanian Kingdom in the East Bank in the East Bank. The rocky slope under their houses is covered with olive gardens that they no longer dare to tend to the tendency for the fear of being elected by the settlers or an army sniper.

Local residents said that long antennas of an IDF base can be seen on the neighboring hill overlooking the town, and in the last two weeks, a new settlement station has reached its base. A police station is a settlement established without official authorization, but under the current settlement dominant Israeli coalition, police stations often receive retrospective approval. The settlers receive army protection from the moment they arrive.

The world around Kafr Malik continues to shrink. Last year, shepherds from town ambushed by settlers And his herds were stolen. Now the olives cannot be reached. A common fairy tale throughout the West.

Yesh Din, a human rights group, said in a statement after the Wednesday night attack, “ethnic cleansing seems like this,” he said. “Under the protection of the government and military support, the settlement violence in the West Bank continues and becomes more and more deadly.”