We need to talk about the international community's complicity in Israeli settler violence
Ramona Wadi- Yet, all the UN can muster is statistical data – it does so because, how else can this institution pretend to be protecting Palestinian rights while also bludgeoning them in the process?
Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a report on settler violence this past October detailing the torture of a Palestinian teen. 15-year-old Tariq Zbeidi was beaten, bound with metal chains, pepper-sprayed, tied to a tree and had the soles of his feet burned by Israeli settlers. After losing consciousness, Zbeidi woke up in an Israeli military jeep and was subsequently threatened by an Israeli soldier with arrest if any stone-throwing happened in his village.
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