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Violent Israeli settlers including two under UK sanctions have forced about 150 Palestinians to leave their village in the occupied West Bank, through a five-day intimidation campaign carried out under the watch of the Israeli police and army.
On Sunday morning, settlers established an illegal outpost, consisting of a basic shelter and a sheep pen, 100 metres from a Palestinian home in Mughayyir al-Deir, east of Ramallah. By Friday, dozens of villagers had already moved their flocks away, packed up their belongings and were dismantling the wooden and metal frames of their houses.
Settlers stalked between Palestinian men who worked fast and largely in silence, grappling with the grim reality of leaving the place where most were born and grew up. A child cried as he was driven away on a truck loaded with the family’s red sofas.
Settlers backed by the Israeli government created the violence that led to the current war.
Often IDF troops are just a hundred meters or so away, ready to thumb the scale in the colonizers’ favor if things get violent.
Often IDF troops live in the settlements themselves. Often off duty IDF troops are part of the mobs that murder Palestinians and steal their land. They share intelligence and coordinate attacks. Their is no real distinctions between IDF and settlers. It is just created on paper so that countries like Germany can claim some deniability when they supply arms to Israel.