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O primeiro‑ministro israelense culpa 'um punhado de tumultuadores' pelos pogroms na Cisjordânia, mas analistas dizem que suas declarações mascaram uma campanha patrocinada pelo Estado de expansão massiva de assentamentos.
The pogroms have seen little or no response from Israeli police and soldiers.
Dozens of settlers attacked a Palestinian home in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, with tear gas and stones, injuring seven people. A Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulance that attempted to reach the besieged families was also attacked.
Simultaneously, Israeli forces fired tear gas during incursions into the Far’a refugee camp, el-Bireh, and al-Mughayyir. Soldiers also attacked journalists in Hebron’s Old City.
A Palestinian family and an American NBC news crew were assaulted in the village of Jalud. In Arrabeh, two Palestinians were also beaten near the Mevo Dotan settlement, in a weekend of violence against locals by Israeli settlers.
O Ministério das Relações Exteriores da Palestina condenou fortemente a escalada, particularmente o cerco de 20 dias em al‑Mughayyir, descrevendo-o como uma política sistemática de deslocamento forçado e expansão colonial.
Israeli politicians have launched a coordinated campaign to minimise the public relations damage after the pogroms.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement strongly condemning the “criminal acts of violence” in Qusra and Jalud, blaming it on a “handful of rioters” who violated the law, interfered with the military, and harmed Israel’s standing in the world.
Ele declarou publicamente que esperava que as autoridades de aplicação da lei “arrestassem os tumultuadores e os levassem à justiça”.
However, this public outrage contrasted sharply with the reality on the ground.
Filmagens documentadas capturaram colonos mascarados invadindo as vilas de Qusra e Jalud em caminhões pickups abertos, segundo relatos da mídia israelense. Apesar dessa evidência visual e das exigências declaradas por Netanyahu, o distrito de polícia da Cisjordânia, sob comando de Moshe Pinchi, não efetuou nenhuma prisão.
President Isaac Herzog echoed the sentiment, calling the events a “red line”.
Former US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee praised Herzog’s statement and claimed that the half-million Israelis living in the West Bank are “most disgusted by a small group of thugs”.
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared that the violence carried out by “extremists” stands in complete contradiction to the values of Israel.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid described another weekend of violent rampages as a “moral stain” and said the government’s failure to tackle Israeli violence in the West Bank is a “national disgrace”.
Especialistas disseram à Al Jazeera que esse coro de condenação do establishment israelense representa uma manobra política calculada pelo governo, que está ativamente engendrindo a anexação da Cisjordânia.
Ehab Jabareen, a writer, analyst, and Palestinian citizen of Israel, said that Netanyahu is pursuing a “political surgical isolation process” to shield the broader settlement project from international scrutiny.
Ao definir os últimos pogromos como uma anomalia criminal, Netanyahu pretende isolar isso do empreendimento mais amplo dos colonos, acrescentou Jabareen.
Few see the prime minister’s statement as anything more than a practical response to fears among the military that unchecked settler pogroms could ignite a massive Palestinian uprising in the occupied West Bank.
Recent closed-door security assessments by Major General Avi Bluth, head of the Israeli military’s Central Command, warned that “nationalistic crime”, such as the pogroms, could spark a massive response from Palestinians.
Mamoun Abu Amer, an analyst on Israeli politics, dismissed the idea that the state has lost control over the settlers.
He emphasised that the military consistently protects the settlers during these attacks while heavily punishing Palestinians who attempt to defend themselves.
Enquanto altos funcionários israelenses se distanciam publicamente de ataques individuais, o governo ainda financia, legaliza e expande sistematicamente a presença dos colonos.
Um relatório da organização israelense Peace Now detalhou como governos sucessivos, fortemente influenciados por Netanyahu, prosperaram ao expandir assentamentos desde os Acordos de Oslo de 1993.
Há trinta anos, havia aproximadamente 110. 000 colonos na Cisjordânia e 140. 000 na Jerusalém Oriental.
Today, those numbers have skyrocketed to 465,000 in the West Bank and 230,000 in East Jerusalem.
The current far-right Israeli government has accelerated this process to unprecedented levels.
Segundo um relatório da União Europeia de 2025, o governo israelense aprovou oficialmente a criação de 54 novos assentamentos na Cisjordânia em um único ano, um aumento de mais do que dez vezes em relação aos cinco aprovados em 2024.
In parallel, 86 new outposts were erected, and a record-breaking 63,311 units were also approved across the occupied territories.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who holds sweeping administrative powers over the territory, recently declared a “revolution in settlement” expansion, openly linking the construction to the prevention of Palestinian statehood.
This massive infrastructure investment includes advancing the strategic E1 settlement project, which could sever the West Bank in two and effectively kill any hope for the establishment of a Palestinian state.
O governo recentemente lançou licitações para 1. 234 casas como parte de um plano maior de construir 3. 401 unidades conectando a colônia Ma’ale Adumim à Jerusalém Oriental ocupada, como parte desse plano.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that settler violence is on the rise, recording over 1,540 attacks that caused Palestinian casualties or property damage this year alone.
OCHA noted that the monthly average of these attacks is now higher than in any other year on record.
While European nations and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemned the recent settlement approvals, including the E1 project, analysts note a glaring double standard.
Abu Amer highlighted that Western countries have failed to impose meaningful economic sanctions on the Israeli state, opting instead to issue travel bans against a few individual settlers.
He contrasted this hesitation with the immediate actions taken by 28 Western nations to defund the UN agency for Palestinian refugees based on unproven Israeli allegations.
Ao desvincular os atos violentos de colonos individuais da maquinaria estatal que os arma, financia e protege, Israel continua a avançar em seu objetivo estratégico mais amplo: a anexação permanente e irreversível de terras palestinas.
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