{"id":115741,"date":"2024-08-16T20:12:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T20:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/16\/inside-jit-the-west-bank-village-where-israeli-settlers-burned-homes-and-cars-and-killed-one-man\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T20:12:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T20:12:07","slug":"inside-jit-the-west-bank-village-where-israeli-settlers-burned-homes-and-cars-and-killed-one-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/16\/inside-jit-the-west-bank-village-where-israeli-settlers-burned-homes-and-cars-and-killed-one-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Jit – the West Bank village where Israeli settlers burned homes and cars and killed one man"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a picturesque hillside village, in the occupied West Bank, the latest victim of this conflict was being buried.<\/p>\n

Day trader, 23-year-old Mahmoud Abdel Qader Sadda was shot dead by Israeli settlers rampaging through his small community<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The village turned out to carry him to his grave.<\/p>\n

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Boys joined men waiting for the end of Friday prayers. Some wept and consoled each other.<\/p>\n

The mood was one of shock and grief.<\/p>\n

Jit is a peaceful village we were told, perched high on a West Bank hill it had till now felt aloof and remote from the region’s deepening conflict.<\/p>\n

Then the settlers came.<\/p>\n

There’s little dispute about what they did. Their every move seems to have been caught on CCTV cameras.<\/p>\n

‘What have we done to them?’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Outside one house, masked men doused furniture with fuel before setting it alight. Their prayer strings hung from under their jackets.<\/p>\n

Inside, the Arman family sat terrified.<\/p>\n

We found them today recovering. Their veranda was burned and sooty, in the middle of the wreckage a baby stroller sat a melted wreck.<\/p>\n

The women of the house told us loudly what they thought of the men who came to visit last night.<\/p>\n

But eight-year-old Dima was the most expressive.<\/p>\n

“I was scared,” she told us. “So scared. I was crying. All the children were.<\/p>\n

“Why won’t anyone protect us? It’s wrong what these settlers are doing. They shouldn’t act this way. What have we done to them? We mind our own business.”<\/p>\n

There was no one to protect anyone here as the rampage continued.<\/p>\n

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Across the village, another arson attack was underway also caught on camera.<\/p>\n

Settlers run around a car, smashing its windows before igniting a massive explosion.<\/p>\n

The Hyundai was owned by Hassan Arman. He seemed to seethe with a barely concealed fury as he spoke.<\/p>\n

What he said about the settlers was both revealing and repeated by others.<\/p>\n

“They’re not just settlers. They are way past that now. This is a paramilitary group, dressed in uniform, with settlers’ mentality. The attack was not random, it was carefully planned. The armed men were divided in an organised manner.”<\/p>\n

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Standing outside his mother’s home, its interior blackened with soot, another man up the road repeated that claim. The intruders were organised like paramilitaries and well-armed.<\/p>\n

And he said they shouted to the villagers that they would force them to leave the West Bank and go to Egypt or Jordan.<\/p>\n

He claimed the settlers also said they had been sent by Itamar Ben Gvir.<\/p>\n

Ben Gvir is Israel’s national security minister and a far-right Jewish extremist with a list of convictions for racism and membership of Jewish terrorist organisations.<\/p>\n

The Israeli government has condemned this attack, but since 7 October Israeli settlers have launched hundreds of them with almost total impunity<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Critics will say as long as far-right extremists remain in the Israeli government, their supporters will be emboldened to carry out more of these attacks.<\/p>\n

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Village set ablaze in West Bank<\/a>
Lebanon pessimistic about avoiding regional war<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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‘The Israeli army didn’t help’<\/strong><\/p>\n

The village is overlooked by an Israeli military outpost.<\/p>\n

The IDF says it sent troops into Jit to bring order as soon as the attack began. There is a military base nearby.<\/p>\n

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Not true, we were told.<\/p>\n

Mohammed Arman’s mouth was bandaged, injured by a stone thrown by the settlers.<\/p>\n

“Of course, the Israeli army didn’t help,” he told us. “They arrived almost an hour and 15 minutes later. They closed off the town. Stopping ambulances, press and firefighters from getting through.”<\/p>\n

The UN says it has recorded 1250 attacks by settlers on Palestinians since 7 October, of which 120 ended in fatalities or injuries.<\/p>\n

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The attacks happen with near total impunity.<\/p>\n

The only Israeli arrested last night has since been released.<\/p>\n

Israeli authorities have yet to update Sky News on any effort to bring those responsible for the rampage to justice.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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