Two settlers under UK sanctions among those who carried out intimidation campaign under Israeli authorities’ watch

Violent Israeli settlers including two under UK sanctions have forced about 150 Palestinians to leave their village in the occupied West Bank, through a five-day intimidation campaign carried out under the watch of the Israeli police and army.

On Sunday morning, settlers established an illegal outpost, consisting of a basic shelter and a sheep pen, 100 metres from a Palestinian home in Mughayyir al-Deir, east of Ramallah. By Friday, dozens of villagers had already moved their flocks away, packed up their belongings and were dismantling the wooden and metal frames of their houses.

Settlers stalked between Palestinian men who worked fast and largely in silence, grappling with the grim reality of leaving the place where most were born and grew up. A child cried as he was driven away on a truck loaded with the family’s red sofas.

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    It really shouldn’t need to be a competition.

    As defined by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM): Genocide is an internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. These acts fall into five categories:

    1 Killing members of the group

    2 Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group

    3 Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part

    4 Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group

    5 Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.