The sight of an Israeli soldier kicking a Palestinian Muslim while he is in the midst of his afternoon prayer, right in the middle of the holy month of Ramadan in Jerusalem, was yet another graphic demonstration of the disdain with which Israel treats Palestinians in their own homeland and the cruel manner in which this manifests itself in open view. Over the last couple of weeks, Israeli brutality against the Palestinians has reached new heights, this time with the eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood and the forced transfer of civilian population into territories illegally occupied by Israel. This was followed up by unprovoked attacks by the Israeli Defence Forces on innocent devotees at the Holy Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.