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Israeli settlers kick people out of bomb shelters in depraved behaviour

As the war between Israel and Iran intensifies, Israelis are systematically excluding minority groups from bomb shelters.

It is well documented that the Israeli government do not provide Palestinians living in the occupied territories with the same protection that they do for Israelis. This includes failing to build bomb shelters in Arab towns.

Israeli settlers hoard basic defences

In Tamra, a Palestinian town in the north of the occupied Palestinian territories, only 40% of the 37,000 residents have either a safe room or a bomb shelter. There are no bunkers or public shelters, like in the majority of cities that Israel is occupying.

According toย CNN,ย 

Civil defense capabilities are built into the infrastructure of Israel. Israeli law requires all homes, residential buildings, and industrial building built since the early 1990s to have bomb shelters. These shelters prove crucial to protect Israelis when warning sirens go off โ€“ providing the public with safe and fortified locations to hide from incoming rockets.

But as we have already established, Israelis don’t care about Palestinians. They are left to fend for themselves, creating makeshift shelters from holes, tunnels and bridges:

Additionally, reports suggest that the Israelis designed the Iron Dome to systematically exclude Palestinian towns coming under attack.

According toย The New Arab:

Arab towns, especially in the Naqab (Negev), are routinely classified as “open areas” where Iron Dome is programmed to allow missiles to fall, or worse, detonate interceptors above them, showering civilians below with shrapnel.

 

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This means that Iran is killing Palestinians in airstrikes, which of course, Israel will use to its full, genocidal advantage.

Minorities kicked out of shelters

One video on X showed Africans crammed into a small bomb shelter with Israeli settlers. Originally posted by Sheffi Paz, a far-right ‘anti-migrant’ activist, the caption included:

And at the next alarm, we will again fight with them for every square meter in the shelter, and again there will be residents who will be left outside.

The funniest part is that this anti-migrant, far-right genocide supporter was BORN IN POLAND.

Additionally, Thai workers are being denied entry to shelters:

There are around 38,000 Thai workers in Israel, primarily on farms, due to higher wages than are available back home.

After the October 7 attacks, Israel faced a shortage of foreign workers as so many left their ‘precious homeland’ on evacuation flights.

However, the terrorist state extended work visas and added pay bonuses of around $500 a month.

It’s a shame they couldn’t include ‘access to bomb shelters’ in their employment contracts.

This also raises questions about the treatment of 32,000 Indian workers known to be in Israel.

Oh, you’re poor?

However, it seems that even poor Israeli settlers from less affluent neighbourhoods are being denied access to shelters:

Maybe their building was chosen by god, millions of years ago?

So much for ‘love thy neighbour’.

Israeli settlers have made repeated bloodthirsty calls for the lives and land of Palestinians. The second they face a few Iranian bombs, they turn not only on the migrant workers around them, but also on each other.

It’s time to call Israel what it is: an apartheid state. But, the majority of the Western capitalist world is too spineless to call it what it is.

However, this is what Zionism looks like in practice – a supremacist ideology that dehumanises and devalues Palestinian lives, along with the lives of poor workers from the Global South. Zionism is a death cult that will devour even itself. That’s what Western powers are propping up.

Featured image via YouTube screenshot/Roya News

By HG

This post was originally published on Canary.