Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank in the days after Hamas' attack on southern Israel.
Sisters, wives, mothers, cousins of the community gather and mourn at the Qusra wake for for four of the six men killed in Qusra, Palestine.
A child rides his bicycle past a torched car in the Palestinian village of Qusra in the occupied West Bank. The worst of these attacks so far were in the Palestinian village of Qusra — where, at first, four people were killed. Then, when the villagers tried to mourn their dead in a funeral procession, witnesses said armed settlers lay in wait and shot and killed a father and son.
Now, images of the dead are plastered everywhere. They're affixed to cars and on the walls of homes and offices. The backdrop of these posters are Palestinian flags and printed at the bottom of the posters are the words"martyr" and"killed by the bullets of settlers.""The attacks on Qusra are ongoing and are on a daily basis," he told NPR'sHe points to the walls of his office covered in pictures of violence by Israeli settlers. A damaged mosque.
Under the cover of the war in Gaza and rocket fire on Israel, there has been a significant increase in settler violence across the occupied West Bank against Palestinians, according to researcher Dror Etkes of the Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem, who has studied Israeli land policies around settlements for decades.
Hassan Mohanned Abu Sarour was among the young men who heeded the call to help when the armed settlers attacked. The 21-year-old was shot. His mother sits quietly in the hall, her aunt and cousin drape their arms around her protectively."He was helping his father to save money in order to build a small house," she said."He was a polite kid."
The recent surge in violence amid the growth of settlements has dimmed Mayor Abu Ala's sense of hope."I see the future as a bleak future. I see it as a black future," he said, adding that"we are not against the Jews. We are against the extremism of the settlers encouraged by government officials."
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