Israeli settler violence — The most striking thing about the cruelty of so-called ‘Israel’ is perhaps the cowardice with which it is exercised. The Gaza holocaust is one giant act of spinelessness, bombarding from afar a captive population for over 1000 days like fish being shot in a barrel. Now a Zionist thug has exemplified that tendency once more, by attacking a Palestinian amputee of advanced years from behindas he hobbles away on crutches.
Middle East Eye have the video, and diplomatically refer to the gutless terrorist as a “settler”. It’s a strange term to use. Tea leaves ‘settle’ at the bottom of a mug. The Zionist colonisation project is not an equivalently benign and natural process. These people are not ‘settlers’ — they are land thieves, waging a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people.
Attack victim lost leg to previous Israeli settler violence
The victim is Saeed al-Amour, whose amputation is horrifyingly the result of a previous vile attack by another group of pogrom enthusiasts. Al-Amour was the focus of a Channel 4 Newsreport more than a year ago.
On 17 April 2025, cameras captured him again trying to defend his land from armed thugs, allowed to continue unimpeded by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). Despite being unarmed, a land thief shot him in the leg, as others pinned his son Elias down helpless nearby. As a result of the attack, Al-Amour lost his leg. ‘Israeli’ authorities charged the Palestinian man and his son with violent disorder, despite footage clearly showing they were not the aggressors. They paid a £2,000 fine to escape jail.
WAFAnews agency reports that the most recent attack happened on August 22:
…in the village of Khirbet al-Rakeez, located in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron
They say:
The attack left al-Amour with multiple injuries and bruises, prompting Palestine Red Crescent crews to transport him to Yatta Governmental Hospital for medical treatment.
Again Al-Amour is being criminalised despite being the victim, with WAFA adding:
[Activist Osama] Makhamreh further reported that Israeli occupation forces subsequently raided al-Amour’s home, searched the premises, vandalized its contents, and confiscated the family’s mobile phones.
West’s failure to sanction ‘Israel’ means the terror continues
The IOF and land thieves continue to make life unliveable for Palestinians in the West Bank. Earlier this week, the Canary’s Charlie Jaay reported on Zionist criminality in Hebron. A Palestinian family described the terror they endure constantly:
About 7.30pm, just before sunset, a group of settlers was roaming Tel Rumeida with the intention of attacking the Palestinian residents. They started throwing stones at our house. My wife and I were inside so, fearing we would be hit by stones and attacked, we had to lock ourselves in the house and wait.
Tel Aviv continues to push ahead with illegal colonial outposts that slice up Palestine into small disconnected fragments. The United Nations warned the apartheid entity’s plan for “1,200 new housing units” would:
…effectively sever the connection between occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank and bisect north and south, triggering severe consequences for the territorial integrity of the Occupied Palestinian Territory and present an existential threat to the two-State solution.
Leading ‘Israeli’ politicians have been open about destroying any possibility of ‘two states’, making it clear they intend to steal all of Palestine. Western governments continue with mere words and trivial punishment of individuals like war criminal Bezalel Smotrich. He responds by brazenly mocking Britain.
The year between Channel 4’scoverage of land thieves destroying Saeed Al-Amour’s leg, and the latest brutal and cowardly attack on him, is emblematic of this failure to act. Despite the horrors revealed to us daily, complicit states take no meaningful action, meaning we are only left with fresh outrages piled upon those that went before.
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