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Months after some Israelis started to protest against aid lorries entering Gaza at the main Kerem Shalom crossing, the battle has moved to other key junctions, where rival groups of activists do their best to block or protect aid convoys.

Right-wing activists, including Jewish settlers living in the occupied West Bank, have uploaded dozens of videos of crowds, including some very young children, hurling food onto the ground and stamping on boxes of aid.

In one video, a group of jubilant protesters dance and celebrate on top of a looted lorry.

In another, one of the stranded lorries is ablaze.

In the West Bank, at least two drivers who were not carrying goods bound for Gaza were dragged from their cabs and beaten.

Other videos show Israeli vigilantes stopping lorries in Jerusalem and demanding that drivers show papers proving they are not transporting aid to Gaza. Their faces are uncovered and they appear to be acting with complete impunity.

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[–] dsemy@lemm.ee 113 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is a direct result of a fascist (Ben Gvir) being the minister of "national security". This guy wasn't allowed to serve in the IDF due to his involvment with groups designated by the Israeli government as terrorists.

Bibi literally allied with fucking terrorists to stay in power.

[–] homoludens@feddit.de 52 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit

Ben Gvir was known to have a portrait in his living room of Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish extremist and Israeli-American mass murderer who massacred 29 Palestinian Muslim worshipers and wounded 125 others in the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in Hebron.

In December 2021, Ben-Gvir was investigated after a video surfaced of him pulling a handgun on Arab security guards during a parking dispute in the underground garage of the Expo Tel Aviv conference center. The guards asked Ben-Gvir to move his vehicle as he was parked in a prohibited space. He then drew a pistol and brandished it at the guards.

In early October 2023, following the arrest of 5 ultra-Orthodox Heredi Jews for spitting at Christians and outside churches, Ben-Gvir said it was "not a criminal case" following arrests.[60] Prior to entering politics, he defended Jews spitting at Christians as "an ancient Jewish custom".

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[–] worldwidewave@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

“My right, my wife's, my children's, to roam the roads of Judea and Samaria are more important than the right of movement of the Arabs," said Mr Ben Gvir, using a biblical term for the West Bank.

He then addressed Mohammad Magadli, an Arab Israeli journalist in the studio, saying: "Sorry Mohammad, but this is the reality, that's the truth. My right for life comes before their right to movement."

BBC. He has a number of repugnant views. There won’t be peace until BB’s cabinet is out of power.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wtf. Dude literally said "my family's right to movement is more important than yours" and then turns it into "right for life vs freedom of movement".

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean it sounds wildly out of context. Probably is.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago
[–] Altofaltception@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

This guy wasn't allowed to serve in the IDF due to his involvment with groups designated by the Israeli government as terrorists.

As bad as the IDF is, I can't even imagine how much worse the IDF would be if they let actual terrorists in its ranks.

[–] small44@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They already are terrorists they are already killing a huge amount of innocent for a political end. It's exactly how terrorism is defined.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

It was more of a "You're management material" type situation.