(1967-) Settlements - https://ifamericansknew.org/stat/settlements.html
burning homes
The UN’s satellite analysis agency UNOSAT examined high-resolution satellite images to determine that nearly 40,000 buildings have been destroyed in the besieged enclave, with 80 percent of the damage in northern Gaza.
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6236/Israeli-forces-are-brutally-targeting-civilians-in-Gaza-City,-burning-homes-near-Shifa-Medical-Complex
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-31/ty-article/.premium/israeli-army-occupies-gaza-homes-then-burns-them-down/0000018d-6021-d16e-a39f-7f3f01e30000?v=1714322592226
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJbHvMIOvbU&list=PLu2VSMZ0QRWKC1T68wKOHy87kA-AMBMKf&index=227&pp=iAQB
Displacement - Since the late 1960s, the Israeli policy of house seizures and demolitions targeting Palestinians has faced strong international criticism on human rights grounds. The Israeli government targets specific houses and neighborhoods occupied by Palestinians and seizes the land and buildings through an arcane legal process in which the Palestinians have no access or legal representation. Then the Palestinians are forcibly evicted from their property after which their homes are handed over to Israeli settlers or simply demolished. To Palestinians, this means that even if your family has owned and lived on the same property for generations, an IDF unit or settler militia can just show up at your house one day claiming to have legal ownership of the property, and your family can be forced out on the street without any legal recourse or police protection. Your house can then be handed over to Jewish settlers from Australia, New Jersey, or anywhere else in the world for little or no money, and they immediately become the legal owners under Israeli law, free to move in or demolish the house at will. This process has even been filmed and broadcast internationally. I can't play it for copyright reasons, but in the AJ Plus video titled, "If I don't steal your home, someone else will," an American-born Israeli settler argues in English with the Palestinian woman whose house he just stole, telling her, "If I don't steal your house, someone else will." Despite the process being internationally condemned and clearly illegal under international law, there have even been events at synagogues in the United States just in the last few years at which real estate firms offer American Jews the chance to purchase stolen Palestinian land and homes at a discount.
The Israeli government has approved plans to distribute 5.5 million shekels ($1.89 million) in state funds as daily stipends to the “Hilltop Youth” extremist settler movement, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on 15 June.
According to a document from the Settlement and National Missions Ministry, led by Orit Strock, the state will facilitate these transfers via regional settlement councils in the occupied West Bank. The “Hilltop Youth” is a radical group of settlers in the occupied West Bank that acts as a state-backed vanguard of the Israeli campaign of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of Palestinians. This funding cycle is scheduled to begin in June and continue through the end of the year.
Approximately $550 per month will be allocated to each of the more than 650 individuals within the movement to cover their food, clothing, and general living costs.
These recipients are based in various hilltop outposts across the occupied West Bank.
The Hilltop Youth was established in 1998 and is largely made up of occupiers between 16 and 26 years old who abandoned their schools and homes to inhabit illegal outposts overlooking Palestinian communities.
The group is an offshoot of the movement “Gush Emunim,” which advocates for expanded Jewish settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Members of the Hilltop Youth typically live in illegal Jewish settlements and form the core of the “Price Tag” movement, a decentralized campaign of vigilante violence and vandalism carried out by Israeli settlers in an effort to drive Palestinians out of their land.
Beyond direct funding for extremist groups, Israeli authorities facilitate broader systemic violence through military and financial backing.
A recent report by Oxfam reveals that Israeli forces and settlers killed 1,244 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank between 2023 and 2025, exceeding the death toll of the preceding 17 years combined.
Amnesty International has characterized these actions as a “deliberate state policy of ethnic cleansing,” noting that nearly 46,000 Palestinians were uprooted in just three years.
This surge in violence coincides with massive settlement expansion designed to ensure de facto annexation of the occupied West Bank.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich recently announced the construction of 2,000 additional housing units on Palestinian land to “establish clear facts on the ground.”
Smotrich explicitly stated that the strategic objective of these projects is to “prevent the creation” of a Palestinian state through the continual establishment of illegal outposts that act as launch pads for assaults on Palestinian communities.
They set fire to Palestinians villages, and then the Israeli government moves to make the area off limits before tearing everthing down and rebuilding a Jewish settlement.
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