“The settlements in the West Bank are the little, bloody continuation of this brute policy which is at the heart of Zionist colonization of Palestine. It is an ongoing process with the full might and power of not only the Zionist … (entity) but of its sponsors in Washington,” Ralph Schoenman, author of the Hidden History of Zionism told Press TV in a Wednesday interview.
According to a statement by several UN agencies and NGOs, “Last year, the number of settler attacks resulting in Palestinian casualties and property damage increased by more than a third; since 2009 it increased by nearly 150 percent.”
The statement was issued by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), the Palestinian NGO Al-Haq and the Israeli NGOs Yesh Din and B’Tselem.
Illegal Israeli settlers often assault the Palestinians or vandalize their properties in the occupied territories.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
Schoenman, however, asserted that Israeli violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is but the tip of the iceberg of Israeli’s atrocities as “not just the inhabitants of the West Bank” but “all of the Palestinian people,” are victims of Israeli atrocities and occupation since the West Bank represents a mere “fragment of the total dispossession of the Palestinian people.”
What Israel has done to Palestine is “the seizure of a nation, the seizure of a country, the seizure of their land, the seizure of their towns, villages and production, and the relentless massacre and expulsion of the inhabitants,” the analyst said, adding that the Palestinians are then “pursued in refugee camp after refugee camp, in war after war.”
Israel’s “permanent wars” reflect the brutal nature of “the Zionist entity and imperialism in the region,” the American author concluded.
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