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Anatomy of a lynching

A mob of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians who were out among their olive groves. Two young men were killed, tens were injured.
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By Al Jazeera Staff
Published On 14 Aug 202514 Aug 2025

Mazraa, occupied West Bank - Kamel Musallet was at home in Florida, United States, when he last spoke to his son Sayfollah (Saif), who was visiting their ancestral hometown of al-Mazaraa ash-Sharqiyah (Mazraa) in the occupied West Bank.

Saif, 20, was in high spirits, telling Kamel he might have found the woman he wanted to marry and talking about how to start the arrangements.

Four days later, Kamel woke up the morning of July 11 to a call from his younger son, Muhammad, 18, telling him that settlers had attacked Saif.

At the time, Saif was lying on the ground near an oak tree where he had hidden to get away from rampaging settlers; he was unconscious and having trouble breathing.

By the time Saif had been carried to an ambulance, he was dead.

Saif’s friend, 23-year-old Muhammad "Rizik" al-Shalabi from Mazraa, was found later in the night - shot, beaten, tortured and left to die of his wounds.

Al Jazeera spoke with witnesses, victims, town officials, first aid responders, and search and rescue volunteers.

This is the story of how Saif and Rizik were lynched by a mob of Israeli settlers.

Continued: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2025/8/14/the-day-israeli-settlers-lynched-two-young-men-in-the-west-bank

From post this replies to:

Ehud Barak -- I understand the terrorists
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In July 1973, Moshe Dayan said to Time Magazine:

“There is no more Palestine. Finished.”

That was just before the October 1973 war, when Dayan was at the height of his hubris. On the one hand it was wishful thinking. But on the other, it was an expression of the Zionist mindset, where Palestine just doesn’t exist, and really, it doesn’t as far as Israel is concerned. As far as Israel is concerned, it will never exist, not as a state anyway. Since Israel sees “Palestine” just as a radical and subversive idea that must be kept under unending military occupation, it seeks to crush any resistance as “terrorist”. Any suggestion of Palestinian national coherence is terror.

And that’s the crux of it, because Israel didn’t come to live with Palestine, it came to replace it. This is the settler-colonialist eliminationist strategy, which for all the sugar-coating of the liberals, is at the heart of Zionism.

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Yep. Israel had options, two independent states, or... for now an apartheid state.
"The real question is whether Israel has the right to be a Jewish state that
holds millions of Palestinians as permanent non-citizens under military law."
There's the crux of the biscuit, right there. "
The problem isn't going away... 75 years of Israel: A 'Jewish state' to a full theocracy?
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UN officials issued a report on May 2 stating that over 70 percent of Gaza’s building stock has been destroyed, and that it would cost $40–50 billion to rebuild. This prompted one UN official, Abdallah al-Dardari, to say: “We have not seen anything like this since 1945.”
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The way towards that freedom, justice and equality, needs to involve some kind of resistance to oppression. It’s just way too naïve to think that it will just go away on its own. And if you criminalize even the non-violent resistance, then you are encouraging an explosion of unbridled anger, and people will die.

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