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A group of settlers who attacked the village of Al Sawiya, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank resulted in the death of a Palestinian and left at least two others wounded by gunfire this Saturday.

Dozens of settlers from the Ali settlement, also located south of Nablus, attacked citizens' homes in the western part of the village, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, which cites several witnesses at the site, The agency says once a 50-year-old was shot in the chest and a 26-year-old was shot in the face.

Mohammad Awadallah Musa, 50, driver of the ambulance carrying the wounded was later killed when other Israeli settlers and soldiers attacked the vehicle. ⠀

WAFA reports that dozens of colonists from the illegal Eli settlement, built on stolen Palestinian lands south of Nablus, ansd have attacked homes of Palestinian citizens in the eastern area of the village.

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[–] betabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Can we stop calling them settlers, they are invaders.

[–] Sagittarii@lemm.ee 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Settler" is about as disgusting as a pejorative can get.

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah I hear it and put it in the same category as nazis. Ig it's more normalized in the US cuz that "country" itself is a settler colony?

[–] match@pawb.social 17 points 6 months ago

I dunno about you but to me, "settler" has had abysmal connotations for years

[–] livus@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago

Most settlers are invaders though.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago

Can we stop calling them invaders, they're cunts.

[–] ElCanut@jlai.lu 9 points 6 months ago

Occidental countries: I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that