Israel continues to destroy what is left of Gaza with American bombs, slaughtering 50 or more souls daily as they try to survive in flimsy tents on a starvation diet of bread and water, if they are lucky. A genocide is happening now with media silence. After invading Lebanon and killing and maiming thousands of innocent civilians, an emboldened Israel has bombed another sovereign country, Syria.

Israel boasts of an historic 500 fighter jet attacks in 48 hours and invades the Syrian demilitarised zone of the Golan Heights. Meanwhile the IDF quietly, away from the world’s media, continues to support well armed vicious white-shirted settler youth to take more and more Palestinian land on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem. The fact that there has been little media coverage of what’s happening in the Occupied West Bank these past 15 months, has enabled Israel to take large swaths of “disappearing” Palestine.

Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 796 Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank including 168 children since October 2023, and over 6,000 have been wounded; among them nearly one thousand children. Over 11,800 Palestinians have been detained in that period, including journalists, 850 children and former prisoners, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society. Save the Children has documented an alarming escalation of abuses against children since October 2023. Many Palestinian children detained in Israeli prisons suffer physical abuse, strip searches and even sexual violence on top of hunger, overcrowding and exposure to diseases like scabies.

The B’Tselem’s report released in early December this year titled ‘Unleashed‘, describes how the extreme violence unleashed on Palestinians this past year has changed the norms of conduct in the military. Every soldier has been granted virtually unlimited power to use violent means of oppression and they know that they will not be held accountable. The report revealed that the........

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