Foreign Jewish Terrorists Call Indigenous Palestinians “Rats”.
The threats on Facebook to the villagers of Qusra, a Palestinian community in the West Bank said: “To all the rats in the sewers of Qusra village, we are waiting for you and we will have no mercy.”
Two days later, on October 11, a group of masked and armed Jewish terrorist Jewish terrorist settlers struck the village.
According to the Washington Post’s review of visuals of the attack, medical records and interviews with witnesses and first responders, one of the Palestinians killed, 17-year-old Obada Saed Abu Srour, was shot in the back by cowardly Jewish terrorist Jewish terrorist settlers, as he was running from gunfire.
Israeli occupation forces stood and watched, despite their obligation under international law to protect all residents of the West Bank, including Palestinians. Soldiers appeared on the scene only after the attack ended, even though they were stationed at nearby military posts and within earshot of the gunfire and had views of an earlier attack by Jewish terrorists.
Abu Srour, the eldest of four children, with aspirations to become a policeman after finishing high school, was killed along with civil engineer and new father Muath Raed Odeh, 29. They were trying to protect the home of 30-year-old blacksmith Awad Mahmoud Odeh from attack. Musab Abdel Halim Abu Rida, 20, who worked in the fields and could always make his grandmother laugh, was killed near Abu Srour.
Awad Odeh’s home is very close to Esh Kodesh, a small illegal Israeli terror outpost. The Jewish violence has haunted Qusra’s indigenous Palestinian families for more than a decade. Odeh watched a terrorist Jewish terrorist settler shoot and kill his father on the family’s farmland in 2017 while other Jewish terrorists vandalized and uprooted olive groves, physically attacked Palestinian farmers and harassed residents.
The terrorist Jewish organizations have long declared their aim to expel the indigenous Palestinian population and bring in foreign Jews to settle the occupied territories. Between Oct. 7 and Jan. 4, more than 300 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank by Israeli troops or Jewish terrorist settlers, a dramatic increase in the rate of killing in the last months of 2023, the deadliest year since the United Nations began recording casualties in 2005.
In typical hypocritical collusion, the Israeli army said that the incident is “under review” and the police have opened an investigation. None of the reviews or investigations that were supposedly conducted by the Jewish colonial state in the past has ever resulted in a report, let alone a conviction. Abu Srour’s mother, Aya, remembers warning him not to go. “He said he wanted to go help. I told him there was no need,” she said. “He said, ‘If I die, I die — I would be martyred.’”
About 1 p.m. on October 11, a group of masked Jewish terrorist settlers carrying firearms entered Qusra on all-terrain vehicles and intentionally collided with a car in the area and began shooting at it. More than a dozen Palestinians fled north to take cover behind a large building, away from gunfire that appeared to be coming from the direction of Esh Kodesh toward Qusra.
The masked Jewish terrorist settlers were firing mostly pistols and one M16, a popular military rifle. They left about 1:30 p.m. after shooting at several residents. The Israeli colonial Border Police and army were in the area and warned the Palestinian residents not to attempt to stop the Jewish terrorist settlers.
A photo taken from an army outpost shows the clear view soldiers would have had of the road and building where Palestinians ran from gunshots on Oct. 11. An Israeli colonial official with knowledge of the Oct. 11 incident said soldiers heard sounds of gunfire coming from the village and left the outpost. He said soldiers reported the incident and then saw “friction” between Jewish terrorist settlers and Palestinians in the area. They called for other forces, who came and separated the groups.
But the conflict that day continued. About 3 p.m., Jewish terrorist settlers gathered outside Awad Odeh’s home, about a half-mile from the first attack. Six armed and masked Jewish terrorist settlers tried to break into the home’s front gate while Odeh, his mother and three young children sheltered inside, according to photos, Odeh and witness accounts.
“I saw on the [security] cameras there were Jewish terrorist settlers around our home destroying cars and shooting at windows,” Odeh said. “We hid in the house and they tried to get in, and they shot and swore at anyone they saw.” Odeh moved to the roof of his house and threw rocks at the Jewish terrorist settlers, who started throwing rocks back and shooting at him.
“As soon as we got 10 to 15 meters out of our home, they shot at my family and injured my daughter, and I got shot right after,” Odeh said. “It was like an action movie. I didn’t expect to come out alive. I’ve never been in a position like this.” His cousin Muath Raed Odeh ran into the house to try to save Awad’s 6-year-old daughter, but he was shot by the Jewish terrorists and later died at a hospital.
Other Palestinians fled and dived for cover amid the barrage of gunshots. Abu Srour, the 17-year-old, was among those who didn’t escape. His body was found face down atop a hillside near the house he was trying to defend, with a gunshot in the back. The bullet “exited from the upper middle of the chest,” causing “bleeding and destroying the lungs.”
At 3:40 p.m., a local Arabic-language Telegram channel, Nablus News, reported that three people had been killed in Qusra.
Under international laws of foreign occupation, Israeli soldiers have an obligation to protect Palestinian residents of the West Bank. Israeli military orders specifically state that soldiers must prevent crimes such as manslaughter and deliberate damage to property. “We, as a military occupier force, must protect Palestinians from Jewish terrorist settler violence,” said Ori Givati, the advocacy director of Breaking the Silence, an organization of veteran soldiers that compiles research and testimonies about events in the occupied territories.
The failure of police and the army to respond effectively to the violence on Oct. 11 is clear from the evidence collected by The Washington Post and shared with forensics and legal experts.
Michael Sfard, a prominent human rights lawyer in Israel who reviewed the evidence, said he has worked on hundreds of Jewish terrorist settler violence cases and calls this pattern of inaction — in which soldiers and officers witness an attack and fail to intervene and has been documented for nearly a decade — “standing idly by,” in an obvious collusion with the programmed ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinians from their lands by foreign, often American Jewish, colonial settlers.
The Israeli official with knowledge of the incident said Israeli forces saw a vehicle leaving Qusra with “four individual Jewish terrorist settlers,” each with their “face covered.” At the same time, the forces received reports of dead and wounded Palestinians inside the village.
Israeli security forces removed surveillance footage from Awad Odeh's home on Oct. 11 after the three Palestinian civilians were killed. Requests for access to the surveillance footage were declined. Qusra residents pointed to the army’s removal of the surveillance footage immediately after the attack as evidence of culpability. “[The authorities] came to take the DVR to hide their atrocities. They had to hide it,” Odeh said.
The attackers were not part of the Esh Kodesh civil defense squad — a unit of Jewish terrorist settlers that has been armed and trained by the military and operates under its supervision. Residents of Esh Kodesh declined to comment on the violence in Qusra that day.
Israeli colonial police said they arrested a 22-year-old resident of the Esh Kodesh area on Nov. 7 on suspicion of murder in the Oct. 11 attack. But the 22-year-old was held for about 20 minutes of questioning and then released on a restraining order prohibiting him from going to two Palestinian villages.
Abu Srour’s mother, Aya, says she has just one regret about that day. “I wish that in the last moment, he came to me, I embraced him. That’s it.”
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