Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians: facts and response

The Zionist state’s approaches, with regard to the expansion of colonialism/ “settlement” in the occupied West Bank, have descended to the level of “ethnic cleansing,” as the frank public cooperation between the Israeli government, its military and security agencies, and the “settler” groups has been completely exposed. The abuse does not stop, but has increased rapidly since the current government came to power, and thousands of dunams have been “cleared” and seized by the colonists/settlers!!!

Dozens of herding communities live throughout the West Bank, all of which are considered, in the eyes of the Zionist state, “unrecognized villages.” They are not connected to the electricity, water, and road infrastructure, and Israel prevents them from doing so. These days, violence carried out by “settlers” has worsened and is used by the current Israeli government as a tool to make the lives of the residents of these communities more miserable. In some places, these acts of violence have turned the lives of the residents of the communities into a daily nightmare, such that they are deprived of any possibility to live in dignity, even at a minimum. Because of this violence, residents have become living in fear to the point that they feel afraid for their lives, especially after they realized that there is no one to protect them. When they were left with no other option, some of them were forced to leave their homes and places of residence and move to safer places, in the absence of any other alternative.

Dozens of communities distributed throughout the West Bank live in a similar reality. As the Zionist state insists on continuing its policy, the residents of these communities will also be subject to deportation, and the Zionist state will achieve its goal and seize their lands. What is happening is the replacement of Palestinian citizens with colonists, as Israeli media reports recently revealed that the leaders of the “settlers/colonists” presented “an ambitious plan to increase their number in the northern West Bank from about (170) thousand people to one million by 2050.” The Israeli website "Ynet" reported that the plan was presented to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and includes the establishment of new cities and industrial zones that provide job opportunities, a hospital and an airport. The website added that the plan “includes expanding existing settlements into cities, in addition to establishing new cities, with train lines linking the West Bank to central and northern Israel.” In fact, according to the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, “Israel has been taking for years a series of measures to make the lives of dozens of Palestinian communities across the West Bank miserable and bitter, with the aim of forcing their residents to leave their places of residence, to achieve its ambition to seize land.” She added: “If there is something that must be rejected, it is participation in committing a war crime and implementing a policy whose goal is transfer.”

Yes, it is ethnic cleansing, which was clearly expressed by the leftist Israeli writer (Gideon Levy) in an article in which he said: “Away from everyone’s eyes, and on the margins of the dark backyard, ethnic cleansing is taking place. What appeared a few months ago as a random set of violent acts carried out by unruly settlers, who sadistically assaulted and abused their neighbors, and did not hesitate to hit the elderly and children with iron rods, is growing before our blind eyes, and reaching brutal proportions. Now this has become a policy, with or without the support of the regime. “This looks like ethnic cleansing, it acts like ethnic cleansing, so it is ethnic cleansing.” Levy adds revealingly: “The settlers carry out attacks to satisfy their desires, and the soldiers guard them. The Israeli army can never claim innocence and say that its soldiers are not involved in the ongoing process of ethnic cleansing.” This is the case, and in light of the Arab, Islamic and international silence (except those who have mercy on your Lord), is there anyone who denies the Palestinians planted in the land their right to resort to various types of Resistance?