Report from Ramallah: Palestinians in the occupied territories face settler attacks and the IDF
city of Ramallah, a city of 60,000, feels like a ghost-town. The typical hustle and bustle here has descended into an eerie silence, broken only by the occasional garbage truck or the wailing ambulance sirens. Thuds from’s Iron Dome rocket system puncture the silence at intervals too, when rockets from Gaza fall near Jerusalem or its environs.
Nour Odeh, a Ramallah-based political analyst and mother of two boys, who lived in Gaza City for many years, puts it this way: “Palestinians in the West Bank see themselves in the victims in Gaza, and they have loved ones, family, friends and colleagues in Gaza,” she says. “They feel that pain. They feel that aloneness that people in Gaza feel. It’s a very punishing feeling. The helplessness of it all. The fact that there’s nothing they can do.
by settlers as they attended a funeral for four Palestineans who had been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers a day prior. Before he was killed, Ibrahim had told me he was worried that the settlers would use the Gaza war as cover to carry out more attacks. Indeed, many in the West Bank feel the same. “The takeover of the West Bank is on steroids because now nobody is looking here,” says Nour Odeh. “Nobody has the time to notice this government’s agenda of dispossessing Palestinians and getting rid of them – and it’s inseparable from what’s happening in Gaza.
There, they chanted against Abbas, throwing rocks, chairs and whatever else they could get their hands on at Palestinian security forces, who, in turn, hurled flash bombs and teargas at demonstrators.
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