Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Israel/Palestine Thread

1…19471948194919511953

Comments

  • #58502
    Odhinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,960 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Colonists run riot once more -

    "Israeli settlers rampage through West Bank towns for second night in a row. The violence comes as Israel continues its push to expand control over Palestinian territory in violation of international law.

    Simultaneous attacks took place on Saturday night in at least six communities, including the villages of Silat ad-Dhahr and al-Fandaqumiya, both near Jenin; in Jalud and Salfit, both south of Nablus; and in the agricultural regions of Masafer Yatta and the Jordan Valley."

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/23/israeli-settlers-rampage-through-west-bank-towns-for-second-night-in-a-row



  • #58503
    Odhinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,960 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    More on the liberal democracy's prison regime -

    Content Warning: Sexual Violence
    The testimonies below include descriptions of rape and other forms of sexual violence.

    https://www.btselem.org/publications/202601_living_hell?fbclid=IwY2xjawQuV_xleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBsUVUwOW5FcGladjVwZWFRc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqbjK0DKRPe16YVqLTwsbPuf4mhd2c_7QIc4XoWcCzrKI6oUUw8OjCG-lhXR_aem_c7NyWx0rQdCfiMjm6dSPQw



  • #58504
    dmcdona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124335351#Comment_124335351

    Utter depravity. Sickening.

    Worse - the Israeli state refuses to serve justice on these people.

    Ironic that Israel calls the Palestinians "human animals". They should look closer to home to truly understand what that means.



  • #58505
    Odhinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,960 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124335429#Comment_124335429

    It underlines the truth that Palestinian resistance to the Israeli colonial enterprise is clearly justified.



  • #58506
    dmcdona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    Confirmation - Israel to annexe Lebanon. Quelle surprise….

    https://www.rte.ie/news/post/104885164


  • Advertisement
  • #58507
    Tacitus Kilgore DCLXVI
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭Tacitus Kilgore DCLXVI


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124335709#Comment_124335709

    and no doubt our amateur international law experts on this thread will be happy to excuse it.



  • #58508
    dmcdona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    Another surprise (not). IDF claim terrorists killed an Israeli - then admit they f****d up.


    Haaretz:
    An IDF probe found that Ofer "Poshko" Moskovitz, an Israeli civilian killed Sunday when his car was struck by artillery fire, was killed by errant IDF fire.

    It was initially reported that Moskovitz, 60, was hit by Hezbollah fire in Misgav Am, near the Lebanese border. The IDF's Northern Command chief said the incident involved "several serious operational failures and errors in both the planning and execution of opening fire."



  • #58509
    dmcdona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    The irony - Settler thugs scrawl graffiti in a school and can't even get it right. Boneheads.

    Haaretz:

    Amid the fog of the Iran war, Israeli settlers broke into a Palestinian high school in the West Bank village of Hawara and vandalized it with hateful graffiti, the Palestinian news outlet Wafa reported.

    Footage from the scene showed that the settlers spraypainted the phrases "revenge" and "A good Arab death [sic]," possibly an erroneous version of the far-right slogan "a good Arab is a dead Arab." According to the report, the settlers removed the Palestinian flag from the school's roof and replaced it with an Israeli flag.



  • #58510
    wildgreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    This is the sick country that the West is supporting.

    A Palestinian toddler was tortured and abused by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, in a sickening way to extract a false confession from his detained father, Palestinian journalists and media have said.

    Karim Abu Nassar, an 18-month-old boy, was taken away from his father, Osama, after Israeli soldiers interrogated his parents as the pair were out to buy necessities in the vicinity of the Al-Maghazi camp, in central Gaza, according to journalist Osama al-Kahlout.

    Israeli soldiers extinguished cigarettes on the Palestinian toddler, pricked him, and forced metal nails into his skin during an hours-long ordeal, according to the report.

    Multiple eyewitnesses said the two were caught in a crossfire near the camp, with Abu Nassar forced to leave his son on the ground and approach a military checkpoint, where he was interrogated and stripped of his clothes.

    Israeli forces then detained the toddler before subjecting him to physical abuse in front of his father to force a confession.



  • #58511
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 56,719 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Reading the above it seems to me that Israel is nothing but a disease. No act too low for the IDF and it's bosses.



  • Advertisement
  • #58512
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,873 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente, responding to Netanyahu’s attempt to drag Europe into war against Iran:“We will not take a single step with you, you genocidal butcher. Do you understand that?”

    Not nearly enough in Europe like him.



  • #58513
    wildgreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    The brutality of Israel is impossible to imagine.

    https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/03/un-experts-demand-immediate-release-dr-abu-safiya-after-reports-severe

    United Nations experts are calling on Israel to immediately release Dr Hussam Abu Safia, warning that the Palestinian physician from Gaza has been subjected to “severe torture” and other abuses in Israeli detention.

    In a statement on Tuesday, UN special rapporteurs Tlaleng Mofokeng and Ben Saul said they had received reports that Abu Safia’s health condition “remains dire”.

    “He has been systematically denied critical medical examination and treatment, and deprived of essential care to such an extent that his life, health, and wellbeing have been gravely endangered,” they said.

    Abu Safia, the former director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, was detained by Israeli forces in December 2024 amid Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in the coastal enclave.

    He was arrested after refusing to leave the hospital, which was the last functioning health facility in Gaza’s north, amid Israeli attacks.

    Like many other detainees from the Gaza Strip, Israel has held Abu Safia without charge or trial, prompting widespread condemnation.

    His arrest and detention are “a reflection of Israel’s systematic targeting of Palestinian health workers and the decimation of the healthcare system in Gaza in order to inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians”, Amnesty International said.

    Post edited by wildgreen on


  • #58514
    rogber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭rogber


    Israelis launching pogroms against Palestinians. Has there ever been a clearer case of how abused becomes abuser and inflicts the same misery inflicted on them?

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c747x00m83vo


  • #58515
    dmcdona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124340316#Comment_124340316

    No



  • #58516
    Bishop of hope
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,089 ✭✭✭Bishop of hope


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124336137#Comment_124336137

    Did he do anything to stop them?



  • #58517
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,801 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124336137#Comment_124336137

    Theres more than you think. Plenty think all jews are Israeli brats like your beloved Oscar https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y2mz3m2dxo



  • #58518
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,189 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    Israeli former PM calls on ICC to halt West Bank ‘Jewish terrorists’ after prosecutions stop

    Exclusive: Guardian analysis of settler violence shows no Israelis prosecuted since 2020 for killing Palestinian civilians, as former military, police and spy chiefs describe ‘organised Jewish terrorism’

    "Israel has not prosecuted its citizens for killing Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank since the start of this decade, a Guardian analysis of legal data and public records show, creating impunity for a campaign of violence.

    "Attacks have spurred former prime minister Ehud Olmert to call for an intervention by the international criminal court (ICC), to “save the Palestinians and us [Israelis]” from state-backed settler violence, carried out with the complicity and sometimes participation of the police and military.

    “I have decided not only to not remain silent, but to draw the attention of the ICC in The Hague so that it may take enforcement measures and issue arrest warrants,’” Olmert said in written comments to the Guardian."

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/25/no-israel-prosecutions-for-killing-palestinian-civilians-in-occupied-west-bank-since-start-of-decade


  • #58519
    Odhinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,960 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    The true face of Israel -

    "A lawmaker from the far-right Otzma Yehudit party told the Knesset on Wednesday that "there are no innocent civilians, no innocent children in Jenin."

    MK Yitzhak Kroizer's comments came after a Palestinian family with two children was gunned down by Israeli forces in the West Bank earlier this month.

    Defending the soldiers involved in the incident, Kroizer said, "I stand behind IDF soldiers in every situation. Even if the collateral damage includes children or women, it doesn't matter to me."

    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-politics/2026-03-26/ty-article/.premium/no-innocent-children-israeli-lawmaker-defends-killing-of-palestinian-family/0000019d-2976-d8a3-abff-39764b2e0000



  • #58520
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,533 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124342972#Comment_124342972

    How does someone like that become a "lawmaker".



  • #58521
    Odhinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,960 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124343019#Comment_124343019

    In order to carry on the occupation Israelis must become brutal and hardened, must view the Palestinians as "other".



  • Advertisement
  • #58522
    Tacitus Kilgore DCLXVI
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭Tacitus Kilgore DCLXVI


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124343019#Comment_124343019

    Because it's a state founded on fanaticism (I know you know this) and exclusionary, hyper nationalism is deemed normal to the point that someone in a position of power can just causally state this. And on top of that, we have governments in this part of the world, who really should know better, just shrugging their shoulders when these lunatics come out with these statements.



  • #58523
    wildgreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    More truth and reality being published.

    https://www.palestinechronicle.com/except-for-palestine-the-limits-of-progressive-politics-book-review/



  • #58524
    Odhinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,960 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    More on the land grabs in the Occupied West Bank -

    "The Military Arm of the Campaign to Judaize the West Bank Has Been Given a Free Hand

    The West Bank District Police are not part of the equation, the Shin Bet has become irrelevant and the boundaries between Israeli citizens and the army have completely blurred in the West Bank. The project of cleansing the occupied territories of Arabs is gaining momentum - and no one is stopping it. 'Even when there are reports that something is going to happen,' says one reserve soldier, 'we get there after the fact'"

    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-03-27/ty-article/.premium/military-arm-of-campaign-to-judaize-the-west-bank-has-been-given-a-free-hand/0000019d-2bea-d77a-a7ff-ffea66ba0000



  • #58525
    dmcdona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    Settler violence and the building of outposts is getting worse. Presumably whilst everyone else is distracted with Lebanon and Iran.


    Haaretz:

    Fourteen Palestinians were wounded in three separate settler attacks on Thursday, the Red Crescent said. These assaults followed the establishment of five new West Bank outposts, four of them in the Palestinian Authority-controlled Area A, which Israeli law prohibits Israeli citizens from entering.

    Kerem Navot, an Israeli NGO that tracks settlement construction in the West Bank, said that "establishing four outposts in Area A is unprecedented by any measure, and shows the extent to which the State of Israel has lost control not only over settlers in the West Bank, but also over the army, the police and other authorities meant to enforce the law."



  • #58526
    Tacitus Kilgore DCLXVI
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭Tacitus Kilgore DCLXVI


    A question for the usual suspects, what are the talking points that are being used excuse this?

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-toddler-torture-idf-israel-detention-b2947167.html


  • #58527
    wildgreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    Eventually that case will be just another one of thousands of examples of savagery and brutality of zionists.

    https://greatreporter.com/2026/03/25/yes-we-starved-a-teenager-to-death-in-prison-says-israel-case-closed/

    Placed alongside the earlier allegation involving the torture of a toddler, Walid Ahmad’s death illustrates what appears to be a continuum of harm within the same system, ranging from acute acts of violence during interrogation to prolonged neglect in detention. One case involves an infant subjected to alleged brutality in an effort to extract information. The other involves a teenager whose body gradually failed under conditions of deprivation and illness. Together, they raise questions not only about individual incidents, but about the structures and policies that allow such cases to occur.

    In the end, the known facts of Walid Ahmad’s final moments are stark. A severely weakened boy collapses in a prison yard. Other children attempt to help and are driven back. He briefly regains consciousness, looks around in fear, and then loses it again. He dies soon afterwards. A court acknowledges that he was apparently starved, but closes the case. The system continues to operate.

    What remains unresolved is not simply the precise medical mechanism of his death, but the broader question it raises. How does a 17-year-old boy, held without charge, deteriorate to the point of extreme malnutrition and die in custody, in a system under constant scrutiny, without any finding of criminal responsibility?



  • #58528
    Odhinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,960 ✭✭✭Odhinn



    More from the West Bank -

    "Israeli soldiers echo settler ideology, talk of revenge after targeting Palestinians and detaining CNN crew in the West Bank"

    "Twelve hours after Israeli settlers brutally attacked several Palestinians and established a new illegal outpost in their village, the Israeli military stepped in.

    But instead of detaining settlers or dismantling the illegal outpost, the soldiers targeted the Palestinian residents of Tayasir and a CNN team covering the incursion."

    https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/27/middleeast/israeli-soldiers-settler-ideology-detain-cnn-crew-latam-intl?Date=20260327&Profile=CNN&utm_content=1774653096&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawQ1DFlleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBsUVUwOW5FcGladjVwZWFRc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHhmU9j2nSBr5yZ14RmkayzhDtULxD97U4dwN11BV9WTuGb7TgIZUSilrONW2_aem_NA8Aq-rtXHrk0fyEOwm3tw



  • #58529
    dmcdona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124347927#Comment_124347927

    The final image of the IDF statement is yet another IDF and Govt. lie.

    It is already clear that the Govt and the IDF are prepared to exonerate or fail to prosecute soldiers who have committed atrocities including anal rape of a prisoner.

    But this is hardly surprising from an army that from the beginning has lied about multiple executions, including the massacre of their own citizens on Oct 7th.

    And don't forget, the IDF made it clear to soldiers heading off abroad on their hollybops to delete any videos, images or social media accounts depicting their atrocities - so they didn't get caught and arrested for potential war crimes.

    It's telling that you don't see the Govt shouting about "the most moral army in the world" anymore.

    The IDF seem to be on a par with the Khmer Rouge and the Dirlewanger Brigade.



  • #58530
    wildgreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    I wonder if American Christians care about this kind of racism.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/29/israeli-police-block-catholic-cardinal-from-holy-sepulchre-on-palm-sunday

    Israeli police have prevented Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to mark Palm Sunday Mass.

    The Catholic Church said on Sunday that Pizzaballa and Francesco lelpo, the official Guardian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, were both prevented from entering the church.

    “As a result, and for the first time in centuries, the Heads of the Church were prevented from celebrating the Palm Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,” the statement said.

    “This incident is a grave precedent and disregards the sensibilities of billions of people around the world, who, during this week, look to Jerusalem,” it added.



  • Advertisement
  • #58531
    dmcdona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    Operation land grabbing is going swimmingly…


    Haaretz:

    The IDF announced on Sunday that Sgt. Moshe Yitzchak Hacohen Katz, 22, was killed Saturday in southern Lebanon by a rocket strike. He is the fifth Israeli soldier to be killed in southern Lebanon since Hezbollah attacked Israel on March 2.

    Later in the day, PM Netanyahu said that he has instructed the army to  "further expand the security zone deeper into Lebanon to finally thwart the threat of invasion and keep anti-tank fire away from our border."



Advertisement
Advertisement