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Cigarette Burns, Beatings, Attempted Sexual Assault: Settlers and Soldiers Abused Palestinians (www.haaretz.com)

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just want to go on record and say that the settlers really should not be considered non-combatants.

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you say that, then the settlements aren't a war crime.

Occupation is legal under international law. Israeli settlements in Palestine are illegal because it's a war crime to move a civilian population into a militarily occupied area.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

I don’t mean to say that they should be given a legal fig leaf. I mean that they are participating in violent suppression simply by being settlers on land that the IDF scrapes Palestinians out of.