😡 (VIDEO) Israeli KKK Beats an Elder Palestinian Woman Unconscious as She Works Her Olive Grove

My blood is boiling. This isn't Gaza, but the West Bank. The hostages are returned. What's the excuse now?

Facts: In the olive fields of Turmus’ayya near Ramallah, an elder Palestinian woman was beaten until she was unconscious. I have the video; today she is in intensive care.

Why it matters now: It’s harvest season — when settler violence spikes while soldiers look on or worse. Witnesses say the IDF lured them into an ambush.

Moral clarity: Beating a grandmother in her own groves is not “security.” It is terror, done in daylight because the perpetrators believe no one will stop them.

Update: After studying the footage frame-by-frame, the weapon appears to be an axe handle used as a club. Ihab Hassan reports she suffered a brain hemorrhage from the strike and has been moved to the ICU. Pray for her.

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Here is the video:

What you’re seeing is simple and sickening: a masked settler (basically the Israeli KKK) swings what appears to be an axe handle down on an elder woman who is working in her olive grove. Her body goes slack. The eyewitnesses begin screaming hysterically from their car. @infinite_jaz’s photos show the assailant standing over her with the handle raised, as well as the path in and out of the grove. He writes that the IDF lured them into an ambush and will publish the long cut when service allows; I have the critical segment now.

Dr. Yara Hawari says nothing captures the settler-colonial project more clearly than that image: a man towering over a woman who dared to harvest her olive trees. Francesca Albanese, the U.N. Special Rapporteur, asks where the decent Israelis are — the ones who pack Tel Aviv squares — and whether they feel any obligation to stop their fellow citizens behaving like criminals on the loose. The goal here is to make Palestinian life unlivable, tree by tree, until people fear their own land.

Let me say this plainly, because euphemism is complicity. There is no “clash” here. A clash requires parity. This is a beating with an axe handle on an unarmed elder. And it happens because settlers know that even when cameras are rolling, prosecution is rare, sentences lighter still, and soldiers often function as escorts rather than protectors. If the army disputes the allegation that they lured people into an ambush, there’s an easy remedy: release the unit’s body-cam, drone, and radio traffic from that hour and place, and publish the arrest report for the assailant. Show the world a perp walk. Show us an indictment. Anything short of that is theater.

Here is the aftermath…

I’ve worked these stories for years. The rhythm is sickeningly familiar: farmers head to their groves; settlers arrive with clubs and guns; soldiers appear; bodies fall; ambulances scream; officials shrug. Then the world is told to move on — as if the olive tree that fed a family for generations doesn’t carry rights, memory, and law in its roots. Our faith teaches, “Whoever saves a life, it is as if he saved all mankind.” The inverse is also true in our bones: to terrorize an elder in her field is to assault the whole human family.

Some will say we “don’t know what happened before the clip.” We know what we see: an unarmed elder on the ground; a masked man standing over her with an axe handle; a blow that split her scalp and sent her to the ICU with a brain hemorrhage. Others will say “both sides.” Then show me the footage of Palestinian elders hunting settlers through their groves with axe handles while the military runs the trap. You can’t, because it isn’t there. And you know it.

Here is what accountability looks like in the real world, not press releases: identify and arrest the assailant; charge him; suspend and charge any soldiers who aided or failed to intervene; cover the woman’s medical care; protect the harvest with international monitors if the occupying power will not. And for those of us in the United States: stop funding and laundering this violence with language designed to make you forget you just watched a grandmother beaten in her own orchard.

I will include the woman’s name and further medical details if and when her family consents, and I’ll embed the full video as it clears. If you have additional footage or sworn statements from the scene, send them; my team will verify and publish.

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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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