‘Exterminate the beasts’: How Israeli settlers took revenge for a murder in the West Bank

[Pelican Press 0]

‘Exterminate the beasts’: How ******** settlers took revenge for a ******* in the West Bank

At dawn on Friday 12 April, ******** teenager Benjamin Achimeir walked out from his settler outpost in the occupied West Bank, with a flock of sheep, and disappeared.

Achimeir, 14, had been living and working on a tiny farm outpost near his family’s settlement, Malachei HaShalom – one of nearly 150 ******** settlements in the West Bank regarded as ******** under international law.

The young teenager was murdered that morning out on the pasture, according to ******** police, but it would be 24 hours before his body was found. When the flock of sheep returned to the farm without him, a massive search began, involving the ******** police, military, air force, intelligence services and thousands of volunteers from the settler community.

For some, it was not enough. At 08:30 on Saturday, Elisha Yered, a former spokesman for MP Limor Son Har-Melech and extremist settler

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of a ************ man last August, posted in a WhatsApp group for settlers.

“Shabbat Shalom, it’s been nearly 24 hours of heavy suspicion that Benjamin was kidnapped from the pasture and still the obvious measures have not been taken,” Yered wrote.

The same message was being posted in various settler WhatsApp groups that morning. It called on them to take matters into their own hands – “crowning” of nearby ************ villages (a term for blocking residents from leaving or entering), “home to home searches”, and “collective punishment against the murderous ***** population”.

The message also contained a list of meeting points. Hours later, a similar message would circulate in the settler groups but with ***** emojis attached to each location, as well as calls from individual settlers to “eliminate the ******”, “exterminate the beasts”, and – referring to a nearby ************ village – “let all of Duma *****”.

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