jpnn.com, PALESTINA - Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has published a new report showing how Israel has used settler violence against Palestinians.
It was reportedly used to abuse more than 28,000 West Bank farmland and grasslands that have been cultivated by Palestinians for decades.
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In a new report, B'Tselem points out that settler violence is being used by Israel to expel Palestinians from their lands.
Israel has so far argued that the violence was carried out by a fundamentalist youth movement that had nothing to do with the government.
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The report describes how settler violence is paving the way for Israel's mission to expropriate agricultural land and pastures used by Palestinian communities in five areas: the grazing community at Masafer Yatta in the Hills of South Hebron, in the Hills of southwest Hebron, and in the Hills of South Hebron. Then, there are the Jordan Valley and the villages west of Ramallah and west of Nablus.
According to the report, the state has seized thousands of lands belonging to Palestinians using Israeli settler violence.
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In some areas, seizures have been carried out explicitly by the military closing plots of land or requiring Palestinians to first seek permission to access their own land.
Elsewhere, farmers and herders fled for fear of encountering Israeli settlers who would attack them.
In testimonies given to B'Tselem field researchers, Palestinians described how violence and fear threaten the very survival of their communities.
Israeli settler violence reportedly pushes Palestinians away from or reduces the types of jobs they have relied on for decades and forces them to stay away from pastures and the water sources used to serve them, as well as restricting their cultivation from agricultural land.
"The apartheid regime is based on organized, systemic violence against Palestinians carried out by numerous agents: the government, the military, the Civil Administration, the Supreme Court, the Israel Police, the Israel Security Agency, the Israel Prison Service, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and others. Settlers are yet another function on this list," the Israeli rights group said.
"Like the violence employed against Palestinians by the military and the bureaucracy, settler violence is organized, institutionalized, well-equipped and implemented in order to achieve a defined strategic goal." (ant/dil/mcr20/jpnn)
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