Israel
continues attacking defenseless Palestinians with weapons of war, daily
deaths reported, scores of others injured and arrested.
On November 4, Maan News said Hamas and Islamic Jihad warned of “new methods of resistance” if Israeli brutal force continues.
Representatives from both groups said they’ll join the Intifada if Israeli occupation troops keep assassinating Palestinians.
Islamic
Jihad leader Khalid al-Batsh said “Al-Quds Brigades and al-Qassam
Brigades won’t accept it that only one side bleeds. (Israeli) crimes
won’t…stop the Intifada. (They’ll) pay a heavy toll for
executions…conduct(ed) in the field.”
He urged PA officials to stop collaborating with Israel “once and for all.” Side with resistance against occupation.
Hamas
official Ismail Radwan urged Palestinians to count on resistance to
“deter the occupation.” Both officials called efforts to compromise with
Israel farcical, a waste of time.
On
Tuesday, Israeli forces raided another Palestinian medical facility.
Baladna medical center director Mahmoud al-Shami said they came with a
court order to examine patients’ files, wanting information on ones
injured during street clashes. Al-Shami was ordered to appear for
interrogation, a brutal procedure amounting to torture.
On
Tuesday, Israeli soldiers attacked East Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood
youths and children. The community is isolated, held hostage. It’s an
open-air prison, no one let in or out without proper identification and
intrusive searches.
Access
to workplaces and schools are blocked. Protesters were attacked with
live fire, potentially lethal rubber/plastic coated steel bullets, and
tear gas.
Palestinians
call East Jerusalem a city governed by fear. Soldiers and police are
everywhere. So are radicalized settlers, intimidating Arab residents
freely.
Neighborhoods
are sealed off by concrete blocks, walls in some places. Some
neighborhoods are preemptively attacked. Hundreds of thousands of
Palestinian residents are collectively punished.
In
1967, East Jerusalem’s population was exclusively Arab. Now it’s around
37% – ethnically cleansed by systematic Judaization, heading for
removing Palestinians entirely from the city and access to its holy
sites.
Residents
remaining are considered state enemies, outsiders to be replaced by
Jews. A police commander said “(o)ur job here is to defend Jewish
residents.”
An
entire Arab population lives in fear of being brutalized, arrested,
tortured, injured or killed. Racial profiling is rife. Even Jews looking
like Arabs aren’t safe.
A
Haifa resident was stabbed and seriously injured by a fellow Jew.
Israeli soldiers murdered an Eritrean asylum seeker at a Beersheba bus
station.
The
Al-Zaytouna Center for Studies & Consultations said
long-persecuted people “overc(ame) the state of paralysis of” their
leaders.
How
far things go from here aren’t clear. Youths resisting are mostly
“educated and mature…(They) made their decisions with awareness and
calculation,” said the Center.
Their
ranks are “socially broad-based,” their commitment real. They want
occupation ended and their holy sites protected. They reject
collaborating/corrupt PA officials. They want Abbas replaced.
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