#Israel #Westbank #Gaza

The comparison of the Israeli state with Nazi Germany no longer surprises me.

"Israeli Minister Threatens to Turn Occupied West Bank Into Ruins 'Like in the Gaza Strip'"
by Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams 30 may 2024

https://www.commondreams.org/news/finance-minister-bezalel-smotrich

Quotes:
"One advocate responded: "Take this seriously. If extremists like Smotrich get their way they will do to the West Bank exactly what they have done to Gaza."

"Israel's forces have killed at least 36,224 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in less than eight months, and far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday threatened to similarly attack the illegally occupied West Bank." [illegally occupied by Israel !! JdeB]

"Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionism party, shared on social media a video he recorded...."Our message to the neighbors beyond the fence in Tulkarem, Nur Shams, Shuweika, and Qalqilya: We will turn you into ruined cities like in the Gaza Strip if the terror you are exerting on the settlements continues," Smotrich said in Hebrew, according to a translation from Al Jazeera."

"Rohan Talbot, director of advocacy and campaigns of the U.K.-based Medical Aid for Palestinians, said of Smotrich's remarks: "Take this seriously. If extremists like Smotrich get their way they will do to the West Bank exactly what they have done to Gaza. Starting with the refugee camps and Area C communities (to a certain extent it has already begun)."

"Since the Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israel, Israeli forces and settlers have killed over 500 Palestinians in the West Bank."

""Every day, we see Israel's far-right government targeting civilian infrastructure vital to the lives of ordinary Palestinians, whether in Gaza or the West Bank," Hooper [Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)] said. "This ongoing destruction has one goal—to make life unbearable for the Palestinian people and to force their removal from the land of Palestine."

"CAIR also "condemned the far-right Israeli government's destruction of a vegetable market in the West Bank city of Ramallah," explaining: "During a raid, Israeli stun grenades and tear gas canisters ignited the blaze that consumed a large portion of the market. Some 200 shops and stalls were impacted."

"In January, Smotrich said that the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza would be a "humanitarian solution" and "a small country like ours cannot afford a reality where, four minutes away from our settlements, there is a hotbed of hatred and terror, where there are 2 million people who wake up every morning with the desire to destroy the state of Israel."
[Aha... the 'entlósung' 'the final solution' ! Another invention of Nazi Germany]

#CeaseFireNow