The least that can be said is that behind the rising smoke curtains in the region, terrorist settlers commit incessant crimes, day and night, against villages, towns, ruins, and Bedouin communities throughout the West Bank. During these crimes, they reproduce the atrocities committed by their ancestors from the "Irgun, Stern, Lehi, and Haganah" gangs in the villages and towns in '48. "I never expected that my only concern would be to save my children from the fire whose flames surrounded them inside the house, and almost killed them all," a father described with trembling words and dazed eyes, what his family endured in Deir al-Hatab, on one of the most difficult nights for his children, as he suffered with them the crimes of the settlers, before he miraculously managed to get them to the roof of the house, which turned from a place of residence into a "trap" of fire, while dozens of settlers surrounded it with fire that reached cars and trees. In Qaryut, as in Deir al-Hatab, Sinjil, Turmus Ayya, Al-Mughayyir, Mikhmas, Beit Furik, Kafr Qaddum, Beit Imrin, Nahalin, and the Bedouin communities and villages of Masafer Yatta, Al-Maleh in the Jordan Valley, and other villages and towns surrounded by settlement belts, life has become an unbearable hell, where people sleep with open eyes, in anticipation of sudden night attacks targeting homes, especially those built on the outskirts, where it is easy to isolate them to terrorize their residents to force them to leave, after burning their homes, stealing their livestock, uprooting their trees, and confiscating thousands of dunams of their land. It is ironic that Netanyahu's decision, in an attempt to absorb international criticism, including American, condemning the crimes of the settlers, to approve a special budget to deal with the crimes of those terrorists whom the wolf describes as "children's mischief," even though they wear the uniform of old gangs, and that they will be dealt with within the framework of educational treatment and behavior modification, for groups of villains who practice their terrorism under the eyes of the occupation soldiers and with their help. The condemnation statements issued by foreign missions in Palestine, despite their importance and our appreciation for them, are no longer "the appropriate article for the occasion," as terrorism is organized, sponsored by a government steeped in extremism, and supported by an army that resembles it, and there must be measures to curb the lust for extermination that possesses the perpetrators. The heads of these missions conducting a field tour in the areas targeted by terrorism, listening to the throbbing of grieving hearts, and seeing the daily suffering of the residents of those areas, would send a message of reassurance to them that the world will not leave them alone, and another to the occupation to stop the blatant functional sharing game that its army plays with its settler army counterpart.
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Thu 26 Mar 2026 9:58 am - Jerusalem Time





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Rural residents suffer from the savagery of settlers!