The BBC has published a video obtained from the Jewish human rights group B’Tselem which in 2007 gave over 100 cameras to Palestinians to film crimes committed against them in a project called “Shooting Back.”
The video captures bat-wielding settlers attacking a 70-year-old man, his 58-year-old wife and one of her nephews for refusing to stop herding their goats and to leave their land which is close to an illegal settlement.
According to the BBC, Thamam al-Nawaja suffered at least a fractured cheek and broken arm and spent three days in the hospital. No mention of the injuries inflicted upon her husband and nephew or how they fared.
No one’s been arrested, writes Tim Franks.
Who will arrest these sociopaths – the state that encourages them to steal land and behave like animals and provides military assistance in their crimes against the Palestinians?
Settler crime is not news. The news is that this film and others like it will never make headlines in the U.S. or be included in the endless loop of infotainment that passes for news in America because witnessing and debating the atrocities their government makes possible is somehow un-American.
Settlers walk heavily armed into Yanoun – “a village between Nablus city and the Jordan valley.”
Settler uses village drinking water as his personal toilet.
photos courtesy hazy jenius
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