Save the people of Susia, stop the forced transfer in the West Bank

While Israeli and world opinion is focused on Gaza and the south, the settlers are exploiting the situation and escalating the violence towards the Palestinians in the West Bank with the aim of forcing whole communities of Palestinians to leave their homes.

The Jewish assailants use severe violence and threaten to murder the Palestinian residents. Some of the thugs are soldiers that use the weapons they have due to their army service.

Nine herding communities have already fled from their homes fearing the settlers, and other communities will be forced to flee in the next few days if immediate steps aren't taken. At this moment – the police and IDF are not intervening – and, in effect, support the Jewish terrorists.

Last Saturday, October 28th, Bilal Mohammad Salah was murdered while harvesting olives by a settler, an off-duty soldier. That night, armed settlers, pretending to be IDF soldiers, invaded the village of Susia, entered homes with their weapons, attacked women and children and set an ultimatum: leave you homes within 24 hours or we'll be back and we'll murder you all.
Israeli activists have since been guarding the residents. The settlers returned to Susia, but didn’t enter due to the activists’ presence. The settlers continue their violent attacks on other communities.

MK Ram Ben Barak (Yesh Atid), issued a warning this week: "If the government and the prime minister won't come to their senses and stop the Jewish gangs sowing chaos in Judea and Samaria – we will have another, unnecessary front while fighting in the south and in the north. I sent warnings to the Central Command OC, head of the Israeli National Security Council and the prime minister. Now you won't be able to claim you didn't know."

We call on Gantz and Eizenkot – you joined the government to counter the dominant messianic, extreme right – it's your shift now!

Don't allow this forced transfer to happen, do not lend a hand to the deterioration of the situation of the Palestinians in the West Bank and crushing of their human rights, do not abandon them in the hands of racist lunatics and do not let the settlers bring about the opening of another front. Stop the settlers and their forced transfer immediately!

Save the residents of Susia from a massacre, stop the settlers and their forced transfer now!

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