Souad Al-Alem was one of the roughly 10,000 people forced to flee the Palestinian town of al-Majdal. It was 1948, she was a young woman and Israel’s troops were approaching the community during the Arab-Israeli war in what is now part of the Israeli city of Ashkelon.
An Israeli woman was shot dead and another man wounded in a suspected shooting attack Monday near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, medics and the army said.Saturday's shooting of a father and son in Huwara sparked a massive manhunt in the West Bank as Israeli forces searched for the suspected attacker.
mentioned, one of those racist fascists, israeli finance minister openly called for the wiping out of the west bank palestinian town. are you okay with the leading minister of the government coming to town this week saying this kind of stuff? genocidal stuff? shouldn t there be consequences? that should be repudiated and the strongest terms. i mean, he s calling for state action to attack palestinians in the west bank. and that should be repudiated. the whole policy should be repudiated. it s not just about smotrich. he s a minister in the netanyahu government that is doing things that no other government in israel has done. that, is a, attacked the judiciary, and there is widespread discontent in israel about that. hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating. by the way, there is a vibrant democracy here. let s not forget that. it s because we ve got a very right-wing government with people like smotrich
these illegal outposts, was gonna create political turmoil here. it s creating political turmoil in israel right now. but this issue is going to be bubbling up, and it s gonna become a real focus, a debate. and you heard senator sanders comments, where he s expressing that point of view. if we re gonna be successful, there s gotta be democratic values in the netanyahu government. there has to be a revitalization two state solution to make it real. so, this week, as i mentioned, one of those racist fascists, israeli finance minister openly called for the wiping out of the west bank palestinian town. are you okay with the leading minister of the government coming to town this week saying
officers and also referencing the palestinian village where those two israeli brothers were killed. then there was a rampage settler israeli settler revenge attacks. this, of course, following the other dramatic scenes we saw earlier today in central teleachieve. more of these protesters, we ve seen these protests for eight weeks now against these judicial reforms, some of which would allow the israeli parliament to overturn supreme court decisions. they ve been peaceful until today. jake? and israel s finance minister, he s one of the two extremists in the cabinet. his name is bet alal smotrik. he said the west bank palestinian town where two israeli brothers were shot and killed on sunday, where the israelis rampaged, the settlers rampaged, he said it needs to be erased that town. take a look. translator: i think the village needs to be erased. i think that the state of israel needs to do this, and god forbid not private people.