You're viewpoint about unaccompanied children being at risk is too narrow in scope. The "companies" that control (are destroying) our government are finding ways to kill people through legislation, budget controls and outright arrests in our streets.
Removal of vaccines that keep debilitating, and deadly, diseases in check.
Removal of budgets supporting cancer research.
Removing state-of-the-art science research labs.
Eliminating restrictions on pollution by fossil fuel industries, increasing Black Lung disease and health complications, as well as premature deaths.
Making pharmaceuticals more expensive.
Limiting access to health services through excessive premium increases and shutting down facilities by with holding money they depend on.
Cutting the Head Start program applications and budgets; the successes of children who were part of this program cannot be denied. But they do not want an educated generation.
and the list can go on and on.
If you're not white, male and a billionaire, you cannot hope to survive what it is happening right under our noses.
Trump’s cabinet members are addicted to power to the extent that, even if their dear idol puts their lives in jeopardy, they cling to him as if he is a life raft. When will these villains, in their own right, realize that when the time comes trump will make each and every one of them a scapegoat? Idiotic schmucks one and all.
Two families have been trapped by settlers for days, casting a spotlight on the army’s struggle to curtail settler violence and protect Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank
A small group of people stands near a stone wall. Facing them is a group of soldiers wearing helmets while gathered in front of two army vehicles.Israeli soldiers gathernear Palestinian houses in the village of Qusra in the occupieded near Israeli settlers, forefront, West Bank on Wednesday.
alestinian families have been trapped since Sunday inside their
Two Phomes on a rocky West Bank hillside by a group of violent Israeli settlers, who set up a tent in the front yard of one of the houses. Residents say about 10 to 15 settlers have been attacking them around the clock, throwing stones and an ax.
Early Wednesday morning, after news of the siege began to draw news attention, the Israeli army’s commander for the West Bank, Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, showed up in the village of Qusra and listened as one of the families described how the settlers had been terrorizing them since January. Outside, his soldiers tried to disperse the settlers with tear gas.
Yet, by 10:20 a.m., videos from security cameras show, the soldiers had left. Soon after, residents said, the settlers resumed their attacks.
'We had some hope in the morning when we saw that the army was present', Aisha Hassan, 35, who was in the meeting with General Bluth, said by telephone, even
The army said in response that it was assigning an extra battalio
On Wednesday even to the West Bank to try to 'strengthen order and operational control in the area'.
The army’s initial retreat and broader struggle to contend with settler violence cast a spotlight on the increasingly chaotic situation in the West Bank, where hundreds of Israeli settlers have been terrorizing Palestinians with near-impunity all year.
As of late July, 18 Palestinians have been killed by settlers, one more than in all of 202 social media of their attacks, posting videos showing mosques that have been torched in Palestinian
towns.
According to UN data,s ha alongside an unpaved road covered in small boulders and grass, CCTV footage, showing Israeli settlers and at times, soldiers have taken part in the violence, Palestinian and Israeli officials say, reflecting disciplinary problems that the military has acknowledged are an issue.
'It’s a great fiasco', said Gadi Shamni, a retired two-star general and former head of Israel’s Central Command, whose area of responsibility included the occupied territory. 'There’s a loss of control over the West Bank'.
Israel’s right-wing, pro-settler government says that concerns about settler violence are overblown, and officials have repeatedly signaled their support for Israelis accused of attacks. The defense minister, Israel Katz, boasts of having stripped the army of the authority to issue detention orders for settlers — which had been a key tool for restraining Israeli extremist violence. In July, he visited in prison a settler arrested as a key suspect in the sexual assault of a Palestinian man in March and clashed with General Bluth over the suspect’s detention.
In Qusra, located near the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, the violence has afflicted two families in particular: the Hassans and their neighbors the Abu Ridis.
Louai Abu Ridi, 46, a native of Qusra who immigrated to Ohio in 2003 and is a US citizen in the gas-station business, said he had poured about $1 million into building a house in his birthplace. The settler attacks, beginning in January, started to lay waste to his investment, he said. His brother moved into the house to try to protect it.
Abu Ridi said he had appealed to the US Embassy in Jerusalem for help and was told to report the attacks to the Israeli authorities. An embassy spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
Ms. Hassan, whose brothers Yusuf and Rizq built two other homes on land owned by their father, said that settlers had broken windows and doors, cut utility lines, destroyed solar panels and stolen the birthday gifts a 2-year-old had received days earlier.
Residents said the settlers appeared to be based in an unfinished home outside Qusra. In March, witnesses said, settlers based in that same home killed another Qusra man, Amir Odeh, and beat and stabbed his father.
Sometimes the settlers have tried to intimidate the families, grazing sheep on their land and destroying their plantings. But the violence has escalated, Ms. Hassan said. Settlers once tried to push the family’s cooking-gas tank into the house through an open window, she said. They’ve fired gunshots and thrown Molotov cocktails at the house, she added.
On Sunday, after the settlers set up camp just outside the Hassans’ homes and erected a tent, the family called the police. When an Israeli soldier showed up, Ms. Hassan said, he ignored the family and instead greeted the settlers warmly. Video recordings show him joining the settlers in prayers.
On Monday night, when Ms. Hassan’s 2-year-old niece, Hoor, spiked a fever and the family called an ambulance, she said, settlers blocked the ambulance and, the driver said, tried to ram it with an all-terrain vehicle. Late Tuesday afternoon, other soldiers made it possible for another ambulance to take the girl to a local clinic, Ms. Hassan recounted.
Security-camera footage from a home owned by Louai Abu Ridi shows the moment Israeli soldiers drove off Wednesday morning, leaving settlers behind to keep attacking Palestinian residents.
The military issued a statement on Tuesday acknowledging reports of Israeli's seizing Palestinian homes and land in Qusra and expressing 'condemnation' for what it called 'illegal, reprehensible and unacceptable' actions. On Wednesday, it said that disciplinary action would be taken against the 'security personnel involved'.
General Shamni, the retired Central Command chief, said that what had allowed him to keep the Israeli-occupied West Bank relatively calm during his tenure, from 2007 to 2009 — close cooperation with the Israeli police, the Internal Security Agency and the military’s Civil Administration — could no longer be counted on. Pro-settler extremists, like the cabinet ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, wield too much influence over all those agencies, General Shamni said.
Moreover, he added, the military units serving in the West Bank are largely composed of soldiers who grew up in the settlements. 'They are the settlers', he said. 'That’s the problem.'
General Shamni said he wished that President Trump would force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has minimized settler violence, to crack down on it.
General Bluth’s visit to Qusra on Wednesday appeared to signal a new resolve to address the situation, but it evidently alarmed the settlers. The young men who had been attacking the Qusra homes were quickly joined by scores more, who could be seen throwing stones onto the road to make it impassable and then scuffling with soldiers, according to witnesses and video viewed by a reporter.
You're viewpoint about unaccompanied children being at risk is too narrow in scope. The "companies" that control (are destroying) our government are finding ways to kill people through legislation, budget controls and outright arrests in our streets.
Removal of vaccines that keep debilitating, and deadly, diseases in check.
Removal of budgets supporting cancer research.
Removing state-of-the-art science research labs.
Eliminating restrictions on pollution by fossil fuel industries, increasing Black Lung disease and health complications, as well as premature deaths.
Making pharmaceuticals more expensive.
Limiting access to health services through excessive premium increases and shutting down facilities by with holding money they depend on.
Cutting the Head Start program applications and budgets; the successes of children who were part of this program cannot be denied. But they do not want an educated generation.
and the list can go on and on.
If you're not white, male and a billionaire, you cannot hope to survive what it is happening right under our noses.
Trump’s cabinet members are addicted to power to the extent that, even if their dear idol puts their lives in jeopardy, they cling to him as if he is a life raft. When will these villains, in their own right, realize that when the time comes trump will make each and every one of them a scapegoat? Idiotic schmucks one and all.
Chaos Highlights Growing West Bank Chaos
Two families have been trapped by settlers for days, casting a spotlight on the army’s struggle to curtail settler violence and protect Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank
A small group of people stands near a stone wall. Facing them is a group of soldiers wearing helmets while gathered in front of two army vehicles.Israeli soldiers gathernear Palestinian houses in the village of Qusra in the occupieded near Israeli settlers, forefront, West Bank on Wednesday.
alestinian families have been trapped since Sunday inside their
Two Phomes on a rocky West Bank hillside by a group of violent Israeli settlers, who set up a tent in the front yard of one of the houses. Residents say about 10 to 15 settlers have been attacking them around the clock, throwing stones and an ax.
Early Wednesday morning, after news of the siege began to draw news attention, the Israeli army’s commander for the West Bank, Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, showed up in the village of Qusra and listened as one of the families described how the settlers had been terrorizing them since January. Outside, his soldiers tried to disperse the settlers with tear gas.
Yet, by 10:20 a.m., videos from security cameras show, the soldiers had left. Soon after, residents said, the settlers resumed their attacks.
'We had some hope in the morning when we saw that the army was present', Aisha Hassan, 35, who was in the meeting with General Bluth, said by telephone, even
The army said in response that it was assigning an extra battalio
On Wednesday even to the West Bank to try to 'strengthen order and operational control in the area'.
The army’s initial retreat and broader struggle to contend with settler violence cast a spotlight on the increasingly chaotic situation in the West Bank, where hundreds of Israeli settlers have been terrorizing Palestinians with near-impunity all year.
As of late July, 18 Palestinians have been killed by settlers, one more than in all of 202 social media of their attacks, posting videos showing mosques that have been torched in Palestinian
towns.
According to UN data,s ha alongside an unpaved road covered in small boulders and grass, CCTV footage, showing Israeli settlers and at times, soldiers have taken part in the violence, Palestinian and Israeli officials say, reflecting disciplinary problems that the military has acknowledged are an issue.
'It’s a great fiasco', said Gadi Shamni, a retired two-star general and former head of Israel’s Central Command, whose area of responsibility included the occupied territory. 'There’s a loss of control over the West Bank'.
Israel’s right-wing, pro-settler government says that concerns about settler violence are overblown, and officials have repeatedly signaled their support for Israelis accused of attacks. The defense minister, Israel Katz, boasts of having stripped the army of the authority to issue detention orders for settlers — which had been a key tool for restraining Israeli extremist violence. In July, he visited in prison a settler arrested as a key suspect in the sexual assault of a Palestinian man in March and clashed with General Bluth over the suspect’s detention.
In Qusra, located near the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, the violence has afflicted two families in particular: the Hassans and their neighbors the Abu Ridis.
Louai Abu Ridi, 46, a native of Qusra who immigrated to Ohio in 2003 and is a US citizen in the gas-station business, said he had poured about $1 million into building a house in his birthplace. The settler attacks, beginning in January, started to lay waste to his investment, he said. His brother moved into the house to try to protect it.
Abu Ridi said he had appealed to the US Embassy in Jerusalem for help and was told to report the attacks to the Israeli authorities. An embassy spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
Ms. Hassan, whose brothers Yusuf and Rizq built two other homes on land owned by their father, said that settlers had broken windows and doors, cut utility lines, destroyed solar panels and stolen the birthday gifts a 2-year-old had received days earlier.
Residents said the settlers appeared to be based in an unfinished home outside Qusra. In March, witnesses said, settlers based in that same home killed another Qusra man, Amir Odeh, and beat and stabbed his father.
Sometimes the settlers have tried to intimidate the families, grazing sheep on their land and destroying their plantings. But the violence has escalated, Ms. Hassan said. Settlers once tried to push the family’s cooking-gas tank into the house through an open window, she said. They’ve fired gunshots and thrown Molotov cocktails at the house, she added.
On Sunday, after the settlers set up camp just outside the Hassans’ homes and erected a tent, the family called the police. When an Israeli soldier showed up, Ms. Hassan said, he ignored the family and instead greeted the settlers warmly. Video recordings show him joining the settlers in prayers.
On Monday night, when Ms. Hassan’s 2-year-old niece, Hoor, spiked a fever and the family called an ambulance, she said, settlers blocked the ambulance and, the driver said, tried to ram it with an all-terrain vehicle. Late Tuesday afternoon, other soldiers made it possible for another ambulance to take the girl to a local clinic, Ms. Hassan recounted.
Security-camera footage from a home owned by Louai Abu Ridi shows the moment Israeli soldiers drove off Wednesday morning, leaving settlers behind to keep attacking Palestinian residents.
The military issued a statement on Tuesday acknowledging reports of Israeli's seizing Palestinian homes and land in Qusra and expressing 'condemnation' for what it called 'illegal, reprehensible and unacceptable' actions. On Wednesday, it said that disciplinary action would be taken against the 'security personnel involved'.
General Shamni, the retired Central Command chief, said that what had allowed him to keep the Israeli-occupied West Bank relatively calm during his tenure, from 2007 to 2009 — close cooperation with the Israeli police, the Internal Security Agency and the military’s Civil Administration — could no longer be counted on. Pro-settler extremists, like the cabinet ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, wield too much influence over all those agencies, General Shamni said.
Moreover, he added, the military units serving in the West Bank are largely composed of soldiers who grew up in the settlements. 'They are the settlers', he said. 'That’s the problem.'
General Shamni said he wished that President Trump would force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has minimized settler violence, to crack down on it.
General Bluth’s visit to Qusra on Wednesday appeared to signal a new resolve to address the situation, but it evidently alarmed the settlers. The young men who had been attacking the Qusra homes were quickly joined by scores more, who could be seen throwing stones onto the road to make it impassable and then scuffling with soldiers, according to witnesses and video viewed by a reporter.