“The settlers are the IDF, the IDF are settlers, there’s no pretence of a buffer,” he said. “It is not any more about a situation where the IDF are standing idly by while settlers attack, it’s not even just one or two soldiers joining settler #attacks.
“It’s a level of #complicity
that goes beyond anything we have seen before. You can see the impact if you look at how many Palestinian communities were forcibly transferred by settler violence before 7 October, and how many after.”
Settler attacks have completely displaced 29 Palestinian communities since October 2023, more than one a month on average, UN data shows. In 2022 and the first nine months of 2023, four communities were displaced, or one every five months.
The #UN warned this month that the “growing phenomenon of ‘settler-soldiers’ … is further blurring the line between state and settler #violence”. Settlers had killed, destroyed property and livelihoods, forced Palestinians from their homes and ripped communities apart, a report from the office of the high commissioner for human rights found.”
“Vigilante militias”
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