Over the last 11 months now, our attention has unsurprisingly mostly been on Gaza.

That's where, of course, the focus has been of Israel's genocide on slaught.

Israel's wiping out of much of Gaza's infrastructure from the face of the earth, the mass slaughter of tens of thousands of its people, we could go on.

But we shouldn't forget the West Bank, which is where over 3 million Palestinian citizens live.

That's an even bigger Palestinian population than Gaza's pre-war population.

Now the West Bank has been under direct Israeli military occupation since

1967 as part of the longest belligerent occupation

in modern human history and in practice Israel has long been illegally amixing the West Bank.

Now as the International Court of Justice, the highest court on Earth recently ruled,

the West Bank is under illegal Israeli occupation.

It endors what international and Israeli human rights organizations have said for a long time

that a system of apartheid is enforced there.

Now there are around 700,000 Israeli settlers living there in around 150

illegal settlements and 128 illegal outposts.

And even before the 7th of October the Palestinian population

were being terrorized in 2023 before the 7th of October around 240

Palestinians that year in the first three quarters that had been killed by Israeli security

forces and settlers. Around 40 of them were children, but since 7th of October there has been a pogrom waged against the Palestinian population

in the West Bank, with over 600 Palestinians being killed since then.

Around 146 of them, children, which is itself four times as many Israeli children killed on the 7th of

October, obviously countless thousands of Palestinian children and tens of thousands overall of

Palestinian civilians have been killed in Gaza since 7th of October.

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