Israel kills more than 500 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7 ( www.aljazeera.com )

That toll is more than three times the number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank in 2022.

Israelis have now killed at least 502 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 7.

The latest killings came on Thursday when three youths – Mohamed Youssef Nasr Allah, 27, Ayman Ahmed Mubarak, 26, and Hossam Emad Deabes, 22 – were killed by Israeli forces raiding Tulkarm.

More than 230 Palestinians were killed during Israeli raids, while at least 20 are reported to have been killed by settlers from illegal settlements and outposts. [...]

Linkerbaan ,
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Heads up that when the Palestinians in the West Bank rise up and inevitably shoot some unarmed people out of blind rage I'm not going to condemn them because they aren't perfectly following international law.

Explain to them what international law is first without sounding like a massive hypocrite.

OccamsTeapot ,

But the war is against Hamas, not all Palestinians, right?! I'm sure the violent settlers were punished for their crimes and not actively supported by the IDF, right?! It couldn't be that this is simply consistent with Israel's genocidal aims. There must be a really complicated explanation for why all of this was necessary to kill anyone who is Palestinian "protect Israel" from "terrorists."

testfactor ,

What's the cut off for describing someone as a "youth"? 27 seems over that line to me.

But ngl, I'm kinda surprised the number is as low as 500, considering 35k have been killed in total, by all reports.

solo OP ,

I'm kinda surprised the number is as low as 500, considering 35k have been killed in total, by all reports.

If you take into consideration that the West Bank is not the in this "war", how does this number sound like?

testfactor ,

Fair. Ngl, I just pulled up a map of Israel. Kinda surprised how much bigger the West Bank is than Gaza. My Middle Eastern geography isn't exactly stellar.

Fair point though. It's not exactly near the heart of the issue in Gaza. If the majority of the Israeli retaliation is there, it makes sense the West Bank should have little to no casualties.

solo OP , (edited )

Now that you mentioned maps, I thought of sharing the United Nations one of this region, from September 2023.
It includes details of Isreal's perimeter fence and shows the few entry points to Gaza, as well as some other chilling details on how Israel controls the state of Palestine.

Btw Gaza and the West Bank are Palestine. The State of Palestine is recognized as a sovereign state by 143 of the 193 member states of the United Nations, just not by the traditional colonialists (US, Israel, most EU, Australia) and a few more. "Devide-and-conquer" is the name of the game.

[Here are included some more maps, with recent & scary details from UN of the region]

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