Israeli troops killed a youth at a hospital and read out Jewish prayers at a mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin during raids that Palestinian authorities said on Thursday killed 12 and that Israel said helped capture dozens of militants.


Alaa Al Sadi, who lives in the Jenin camp, said soldiers who came to his home searching for guns smashed his television before taking him blindfolded into detention at an army compound outside the city for about 14 hours, along with hundreds of other people.

The soldiers found no guns but demolished his family home and accused him of being a member of Hamas, telling him he should leave the West Bank and move to Lebanon or Syria, Al Sadi, 44, said in an interview. He denied any links to the Gaza-based Islamist militant group.

The Israeli military did not respond to a request for comment about Alaa Al Sadi’s account.

The majority of the people taken into detention earlier in the raid have since been released, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club, an advocacy group, said in a statement. The Israeli army said 60 wanted suspects were transferred to security forces for further questioning.

  • Therealgoodjanet@lemmy.world
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    How the hell is desecrating a mosque going to help with anything? Stopping the resistance? Just desecrate a mosque and they will all just magically give up? Holy shit every time when you think it possibly can’t get any worse the IOF finds a way to top its own actions…

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      Perhaps hoping to trigger an uprising from Phalastinians over there, they are mostly unarmed so Israeli army would finish them quicker.

      Nathanyahu is a really wicked person

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      It’s a playbook as old as colonialism. Do something horrible. Then when the locals retaliate you tell the world they started it and escalate to genocide.

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      The solders involved in desecrating the mosque were detained. Not sure what will happen to them. The right in Israel tend not to care, or at most say these things happen and we’re at war etc. The left are not having it, and see it as part of the extreme right religious movement that is our terrible government.

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        The same fate of what happened to that politician calling to drop atomic bomb over Gaza. N O T H I N G.

        At this stage, it is pretty obvious what Israel’s goal is here. They are not looking to find peace. They are looking to extend the conflict and continue provoking them and make the life of Palestinians even more miserable.

        It is about time for the UK and the US to see through this parade the truth.

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          The statement is Israel wants to extinguish hamas. The belief that giving them money from Quatar and they will give us peace and quiet was obviously false.

          The Israeli people need the abducted to be brought back. That is the no. 1 reason for all of this.

          There are a minority of fanatic religious lunatics (currently represented in this horrendous government of brain dead corrupt morons) that want to move back into Gaza. This will not happen.

          Netanyahu needs the war to go on so that people forget he is to blame for a lot of this.

          The army definitely can, and will be pressured to, punish these solders.

          Netanyahu cannot afford to break his rotten coalition, he won’t stay in power if the next elections happen now.

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      desecrating a mosque

      What does this even mean? The article says they recited some prayers in there. Who cares about this magic shit and why?

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      I think that’s why they said the soldiers would be disciplined. I mean if you want to generalize the entire IDF as a pair of radicalized soldiers who did something terrible… well then. You’ve made the case that the legitimately elected government of Gaza (Hamas) is all Gaza residents. And I disagree eith you there too.

      You sure that’s what you’re trying to say?

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    At no point will any of these soldiers ask if they’re the baddies.

    What is it in human nature that enables this total lack of awareness?

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          Right? Think about how fucking absurd this is. This whole “desecration” nonsense.

          “I am going to say my special magic words at your special magic words building! Take that!”

          “THIS OUTRAGE SHALL NOT STAND! ONLY MY SPECIAL MAGIC WORDS CAN BE SAID AT MY SPECIAL MAGIC WORDS BUILDING!”

          And then they killed each other over special magic words. Invisible sky man is watching and doing nothing despite all the magical and very special words being said that he can definitely hear and cares about.

          Fucking madness.

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            Agree. The whole temple mount thing… you children can’t behave, now nobody gets to play here. It’s off limits to all parties. Now everyone loses because you can’t get along. Fucking nutters.

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      It only takea a few to do such a thing. They probably grew up in an extreme religious home and watch the Israeli propaganda channel (fox news style lies and brainwash). I hope they will be punished for both the desecration and the terrible PR, making Israel look even worse.

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      Americans voting for Genocide Joe aren’t asking themselves this question either.

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      I felt that way when I saw majority support in Gaza for Hamas in a recent poll in Gaza and overwhelming support for Hamas on the west Bank.

      It’s a good question.

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    They want to provoke all out war. And American evangelicals are salivating…

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    Israel is a terrorist state. There is no place for Zionism in this world. It will be end of everything as we know it.

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    Oh! Is Hamas in the West Bank? I thought they were only indiscriminately steamrolling Gaza because Hamas was there!

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      Did you completely miss the part where they captured several dozen militants?

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        Every civilian pushed to the brink of trying to survive by defending themselves is considered a militant.

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    They also shot 3 of their own hostages who apparently had escaped Hamas by themselves and were trying to get back into Israel.

    Ironically a ceasefire might’ve saved their lives.

    Oh well, Fascist Theocracy needs blood.

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    Desecrating a mosque: saying words

    Not desecrating a mosque: hoarding weapons and using it as a rocket launch site

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      Exactly. The double standards that Hamas’s defenders apply are incredible.

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    This not a genocide or wanting gaza people to leave their land. This is a war against hamas…

    Fuck those whoe don’t ask for ceasefire and support this genocidal state

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        The ignorant and uneducated left needs some history lessons. That’s really the problem. Select armchair Googling disinformation is just sad.

        True studies of the region and its ENDLESS conflicts would provide a better perspective than just the predominant antisemitism.

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        Lol forgot to add quotation marks and /s then felt good that there were alot of downvote so I left it.

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          Got several people in this very post that would say that without the “/s”, so definitely needed unfortunately

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      Thanks for spreading some D-tier misinformation. We have eyes and are in the IDF telegram channels. The videos the soldiers are posting contradict your statement.

      Fuck those whoe don’t ask for ceasefire and support this genocidal state

      What genocidal state are we talking about? Hamas isn’t a country. So, you must be talking about…