Thread by @nabothVin

1/ Last Monday (January 6, 2025), three Israeli settlers were murdered while driving through the village of Al Funduq. This occurred just days after the Israeli government announced the plan to begin paving a bypass road east of the village. >>

2/ We wrote about this road 2 years ago, when the head of the military Central Command at the time issued a "temporary" seizure order for "security needs" in order to seize 219 dunams of agricultural land that belongs to the residents of Al funduq, Haje & Jinsafut. >>

3/ The village of Al Funduq is the only Palestinian village still intersected by Route 55 - the Qalqilya - Nablus road. Unlike all other sections of the route, along which the settlements of Alfei Menashe, Ma'ale Shomron, Karnei Shomron, and Kedumim were established >>

4/ in these sections, the route has been repaved by Israel as bypass roads. >>

Here's A link to the post we published in March 2023 about this road bit.ly/4gUa6xA

5/ A few days before the murder, Yossi Dagan, the head of the serial law violator the Samaria Regional Council, said in Israel Hayom newspaper that "Our response to terrorism is building the country". Once again, it seems that "terror" has its own responses. >>

6/ More than a week has passed since the murder, and the village of Al Funduq remains paralyzed. Soldiers with drawn weapons guard the entrances, all shops are closed. Settlers have threatened to prevent Palestinians from reopening their businesses. >>

7/ Ozel Vatik, head of the law breaking local council of Kedumim, whose criminal actions we detailed here recently, sent the following message to the residents of the isolated and violent settlement that is under his authority: >>

https://x.com/nabothVin/status/1857813100713353332

8/ "The shops in Al Funduq will not open tomorrow. Period. Over the past few days, I have been applying relentless pressure on political, military, and police officials with one clear goal: The security situation will not return to what it was. At the same time I'm pressuring >>

9/ all levels for the immediate demolition of the illegal shops in the village. We will not stop until this is done. These shops are illegal, pose a security risk, and their destruction must send a clear message not only to our enemies but to ourselves, that our lives matter. >>

10/ I have also told the authorities: if necessary, we, as a public, will fight for the closure of these illegal shops. Don't make us do it, we trust you to act decisively so that the past will not repeat itself". >>

11/ It is obvious that the settlers are following the Huwara model, where the residents of Huwara were held hostage by both the settlers and the army, and the local economy crashed. >>

12/ This was as a revenge for the murder of settlers that occurred within the village. This is the horrifying and escalating cycle that most Israelis have chosen to impose on both Palestinians and themselves for decades.