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

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Middle East Eye article covering the same event

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months 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.