It's unpleasant I agree. But I still stand with the side who aren't designated terrorists who deliberately target civilians.
So not the Jewish terrorists who invade, destroy and kill in West Bank, with the support of the Israeli army and its military tribunals.
And have been doing for many years.
https://www.ft.com/content/94ecce61-87fb-49b4-a121-f3f2031a23e3
"In Masafer Yatta, we see IDF troops shoot a young man named Harun Abu Aram at close range while confiscating an electricity generator. Paralysed, he is taken by his family into a cave but, we are told, he lived only two more years. (The IDF told the AFP news agency in 2021 that a group of Palestinians had attacked soldiers who were evacuating an “illegal building” and who fired into the air in response. It also said it would investigate the incident.) Later, in a coda filmed about a week after October 7, Adra records an Israeli settler shoving and then shooting one of his cousins. (According to Adra, the settler is still free.)
Elsewhere in the film, even peaceful protests are broken up. “Basel and I participated in dozens of nonviolent protests in the West Bank, which were all immediately deemed illegal,” Abraham says, speaking from Tel Aviv on the same group call. “By the definition of the law, any protest is illegal unless the military commander authorises it, which never happens.”
"Speaking to Adra and Abraham, it is hard for the reality depicted in the film not to intrude. Adra describes having to wait that very day at checkpoints ominously staffed by masked soldiers. That leads Abraham to point out the “structural systematic violence” that Israeli occupation exacts on all aspects of Palestinian life through day-to-day restrictions. (The film purposely roots its perspective in Masafer Yatta and does not interrupt the experience by following Abraham to his home.)
Looming over it all are the ongoing events in Gaza. Adra, a trained lawyer, has worked for years in documenting abuses and provides documentation to human rights organisations such as the Jerusalem-based B’Tselem (as well as aiding Palestinians who allege false charges against them). But he can’t contain his exasperation. “This is insane. I never imagined that the world will allow something like this, and keep delivering bombs and weapons and money,” he says of the past year. “You work, you bring evidence, you write, you bring videos, you do advocacy. And the results are the opposite on the ground, where everything is moving as the Israeli policy wanted, which is to erase us from here.”
FT.com
