Israeli Human Rights Lawyer Attacked While Documenting Settler Raid on Gaza Aid Convoy

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Published 2024-05-16
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Aid agencies are running out of food in southern Gaza amid Israel’s ongoing offensive in Rafah and the shutdown of the two main border crossings in the south. Some 1.1 million Palestinians are on the brink of starvation, according to the United Nations, while a “full-blown famine” is taking place in the north. Meanwhile, some Israelis have been blocking aid from reaching the Gaza border, including a violent attack on trucks carrying humanitarian relief through the occupied West Bank earlier this week, when settlers threw food packages on the ground and set fire to the vehicles at the Tarqumiyah checkpoint near Hebron. “They did whatever they want,” says Israeli lawyer and peace activist Sapir Sluzker Amran, who documented the attack on the aid convoy. She says Israeli soldiers appeared to be working with the settlers, refusing to intervene. “They were just standing aside like there is nothing that they can do, like it’s normal, what’s happening.”

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All Comments (21)
  • @mannyc7187
    These people have lost their humanity. This pain and hatred has consumed them. We will not forget.
  • This is what the so called “Chosen people of God” have been up to for 75 years.
  • @CFX992
    Call it what it is Terrorism, there are children in between them, not just adults, this is a SYSTEMATIC issue of an entire civilization, not one two fringe individuals.
  • @dlfields8429
    This angers me to action.. Free Palestine from these Nazis
  • @retrofedora7061
    If they don't have any humanity left, are they still human?. Calling zoinist animal is an insult to animal.
  • @robsurname4054
    Evil has destroyed their minds. And they do it in full view, no shame
  • @williamolsen20
    This is horrific, how can anyone sink so low? No heart, no soul, what a downright atrocity.
  • Decades of occupation, humiliation, cruelty and oppression not only de-humanizes the oppressed, it also de-humanizes the oppressors!
  • @gsacki2010
    This is the most inhumane thing!!! People are starving to death!!!
  • @bigshot9891
    Ashamed of nothing and offended by everything. PURE EVIL❗🇮🇱
  • @maryheiman4091
    This woman they interviewed should fear for her life. it takes a lot of strength to go against the current
  • @ebteahmed4401
    They didn't feel bad about taking their homes,why would they feel anything about destoying the food
  • @ricomason1
    1947 political definitions SETTLERS = THIEVES!
  • @McCRBen
    Criminals don’t like anyone recording their crimes.