The West’s pretend outrage won’t save Palestinians

A ban on Israeli settlement goods is meaningless in stopping the ethnic cleansing of Palestine On September 2, without warning, Israeli bulldozers destroyed the homes of 12 Palestinian families in Khirbet al-Tabban, a herding community in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, leaving 70 people homeless, nearly half of them children.RT’s Charlotte Dubenskij visited the community soon after, interviewing the families and the head of Masafer Yatta council, Nidal Younis. Younis described the demolition as the erasure of this village. He said that in addition to the destroyed homes, “water sources were also targeted, including rainwater collection wells and the families’ small water tanks.” They also destroyed the ten pens housing their 600 animals.Terrain in the South Hebron Hills is desert-like, dry and hot, and the families’ livelihoods mainly depend on the sheep, goats and chickens they raise and the vegetables they grow – all of which requires water.According to Israeli rights group B’Tselem, in the 1980s, around 3,000 hectares of the South Hebron Hills were declared a “restricted military zone.” It notes that the expulsion of the roughly 700 residents of 12 villages occurred in 1999, “o...