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muriel_volestrangler

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1. Witness to the violence:
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 04:58 PM
Mar 2025
Josh Kimelman also came to help. He's a 28-year-old American living in the West Bank for three months with the Centre for Jewish Non-Violence. He disputes the IDF's version of how the violence started.

"What I know is that there were Palestinian shepherds who were harassed by settlers and then a settler mob started to attack houses here."
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"There was one who started it and then a mob followed of maybe 15 to 20 masked settlers. They punched one of my friends in the face and neck, and hit another with a stick and shoved her. And they started throwing rocks at our car."
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"It's likely this attack was planned. It was definitely coordinated. You don't get a mob of 20 settlers attacking in the way that they did without some pre-planning, and so they had specific people in mind."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8yg20yy7mo

And what lovely quotes from one of the attackers, back in August: "This is my land, I was given it by God ... Next time it won’t be nice ... Rape for a higher cause".

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