Published: 3 March 2023
Last updated: 5 March 2024
VIDEO REPORT: ITTAY FLESCHER joins Israelis offering solidarity to Palestinian victims of this week’s settler rampage.
Israelis donated more than NIS1 million ($400,00) for Palestinian victims of the settler rampage in Huwara within 24 hours of last Sunday night's attacks.
Others joined peace activists from Tag Meir to visit the West Bank village, see the damage for themselves and share the grief and outrage of the victims.
One Palestinian was killed and four seriously injured when about 400 settlers burned homes and cars in a wave of fury over the killing of brothers Hallel Yaniv, 21, and Yagel Yaniv, 19, who were murdered by a Palestinian gunman.
Tag Meir is a peacebuilding organisation which was formed in response to the settler organisation Tag Mechir (Price Tag), which carries out revenge attacks against Palestinians in response to terrorist attacks on Israelis. It holds solidarity events in response to racist attacks.
Labor party member Yaya Fink launched an online crowd-funding campaign the morning after the attack.
Fink said he was driven to act after seeing the “horrifying” footage from the rampage, which showed yarmulke-wearing Jewish perpetrators gathering for an evening prayer quorum in front of Huwara buildings engulfed in flames.
“As a religious Jew myself … I felt that I could not be silent under such circumstances,” Fink said. “They’re creating a warped new Judaism and bearing the name of the true one in vain.”
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Israelis donate over NIS 1 million for Palestinian victims of settler rampage (Times of Israel)
Top photo: A Palestinian and two Jewish Israeli women share their grief in response to the settler attack in Huwara (Ittay Flescher)
