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Israeli settlers, accompanied by Israeli occupation forces, stormed multiple Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank on Sunday evening, expressing outrage over a Gaza ceasefire deal widely perceived as a defeat for the Israeli entity.

The settlers targeted Palestinian vehicles and blocked key roads in areas including Turmus Ayya, ‘Atara, Ein Siniya, Ein Ayoub, Qalqilya, and Jaba’.

In Sinjil, WAFA news agency reported that two Palestinian homes and four vehicles were set on fire. Social media footage captured settlers throwing stones and Molotov cocktails during their attacks.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Why do we call them settlers and not invaders?

Religious nationalism is disgusting.

[–] sirboozebum 16 points 2 days ago

Or terrorists?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

They're people from (illegal) settlements. I think settler is an objectively correct word for them. I'm sure there are also other accurate terms.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

The term comes from settler colonialism. It is different from normal colonialism because it tries murder or displace a population to replace it with people from the colonizing country.

However the term settler by itself does not do the situation justice, so colonist would be better fitting.