Left-wing activists protested that settlers were allowed to move throughout the town on Friday freely, but their buses were barred from arriving
After the settler rampage there earlier in the week, Israel’s military barred hundreds of left-wing Israeli activists from accessing the West Bank Palestinian hamlet of Huwara on Friday, the activists claimed.
The soldiers stopped about ten buses transporting members of the “Standing Together” and “Looking the Occupation in the Eye” groups. But a few hours later, the protesters started a foot march from the neighboring Tapuah junction to Huwara.
Their march happened amid an uproar of shock and horror in Israel and abroad after hundreds of settlers ransacked Huwara and nearby villages on Sunday in retaliation for a terror attack in which two Israeli brothers were shot and killed while driving through the Palestinian town hours earlier.
Radical settlers attacked Palestinians, destroyed their homes, cars, and stores, and set fire to them. This resulted in numerous injuries and the death of a Palestinian man.
Left-wing activists protested that settlers were allowed to move throughout the town on Friday freely, but their buses were barred from arriving.
“The military announcement that is barring Israelis from a solidarity visit in Huwara is the essence of the policy of occupation: entry for those carrying out pogroms is allowed, peace activists are barred. That’s what the occupation looks like,” tweeted former Meretz lawmaker Mossi Raz.
