IDF night raids, an everyday occurrence in the occupied territories, ensure that Palestinians cannot feels safe in the one place where safety should be assured.
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Over the years, the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC) has collected testimonies from Palestinian women in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza on a whole range of issues. However there is one issue, above all others, that stands out due to the frequency with which it occurs and the devastating impact it has on women, their children and entire communities: night raids conducted by the Israeli military into Palestinian villages and homes, which have been taking place on a nightly basis in the occupied territories for the past 48 years.
In a sample of 100 instances of night raids conducted since 2014, the one common thread mentioned by the women who provided testimonies to WCLAC was a sense of terror. The raids usually begin at around 2.00 a.m. with aggressive banging at the door or simply an explosion to blow it in. Masked soldiers storm the house as the family tries to comprehend what is happening. Sometimes a family member will be arrested, other times not. Sometimes there is violence, sometimes not. The house will be searched with reports of damaged furniture; wardrobes emptied with contents thrown to the floor, while soldiers leave muddy boot marks throughout the house.
Perhaps the most devastating impact these raids have is on the children. Mothers report that their children have problems sleeping after experiencing a night raid. Some children become aggressive, others wet their beds. No one feels safe in the one place where safety should be assured.
According to a recent report by WCLAC, it is estimated that the military conducts nearly 1,400 night raids each year, with over 65,000 since military law was imposed on the West Bank in 1967. These figures do not even include the more frequent military incursions that occur into Palestinian villages and cities during the day. Furthermore, our testimonies reveal that every night raid occurs on average within two kilometers of an Israeli settlement, and even closer to a road used by settlers. The simple fact is that to guarantee the protection of hundreds of thousands of Israeli civilians living in occupied territory, the army must engage in mass intimidation of the local population.
While this strategy is largely successful, it would be naïve to assume that it does not generate resentment and anger. The question is how long can this anger be contained and how is it likely to manifest itself?
Salwa Duaibis is the head of the International Advocacy Unit at the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC).
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it is interesting that for many Jews the mere sprinkles, installed on the lawns in the Auschwitz during the heat wave, are unnacceptable because,oy vey , they remind them about the bad Nazis and traumas of the Holocaust.
For me, those night raids done by the IDF soldiers remind me of the Nazi tactics of frightening the civilian, unarmed populations , that were under on thier demonic ‘mercy’ during WW2.
The Nazi State and the State of Israel are the two sides of the SAME COIN , forged in hell and sustained by its evil spirit.
marta15: a list of trustworthy references about WW2 would be appreciated.
Just a few examples like Nazis spread their ideology of “Love, tolerance, brotherhood and mutual help “.
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“..The Palmiry massacre was a series of mass executions carried out by Nazi German forces, during the Second World War, near the village of Palmiry in the Kampinos Forest, located northwest of Warsaw.
Between December 1939 and July 1941 more than 1700 Poles and Jews – mostly the inmates of Pawiak prison – were executed by the SS and the Ordnungspolizei in the forest glade near Palmiry. The best documented of these massacres took place on 20–21 June 1940, wherein 358 members..”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmiry_massacre
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“..AB-Aktion (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (English: Extraordinary Operation of Pacification), was a Nazi German campaign during World War II aimed to eliminate the intellectuals and the upper classes of the Polish people and of Polish nationhood. In the spring and summer of 1940, more than 30,000 Poles were arrested by the Nazi authorities in German-occupied Poland.[1] About 7,000 leaders and professors, teachers and priests (labeled as suspected of criminal activities) were subsequently massacred at various locations including at the Palmiry Forest.[2][3] The others were sent to German concentration camps…”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_AB-Aktion_in_Poland
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‘…Kidnapping of non-Germanic European children by Nazi Germany (Polish: Rabunek dzieci), part of the Generalplan Ost (GPO), involved taking children regarded as “Aryan-looking” from the rest of Europe and moving them to Nazi Germany for the purpose of Germanization, or indoctrination into becoming culturally German.
At more than 200,000 victims, occupied Poland had the largest proportion of children taken.[1][2] An estimated 400,000 children were abducted throughout Europe…..”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_children_by_Nazi_Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_occupied_Poland_during_World_War_II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_war_crimes
‘..Racial policy of Nazi Germany
Racial policy of Nazi Germany was a set of policies and laws implemented in Nazi Germany, asserting the superiority of the “Aryan race”, based on a specific racist doctrine which claimed scientific legitimacy. It was combined with a eugenics programme that aimed for racial hygiene by using compulsory sterilizations and extermination of the Untermenschen (or “sub-humans”), which eventually culminated in the Holocaust. Nazi policies targeted peoples, in particular Jews, as well as Romani people, ethnic Poles,[1] Russians[2]
who were labeled as “inferior” in a racial hierarchy that placed the Herrenvolk (or “master race”) of the Volksgemeinschaft (or “national community”) at the top and ranked people believed to be non-Aryan “subhumans” such as Russians, Romani, Serbs, Poles, persons of color and Jews at the bottom..”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_policy_of_Nazi_Germany
Martha
References from Jewipedia dont count