Palestinian columnist accuses Israel for committing crimes against humanity

Excerpt of a column by Muwaffaq Matar, Fatah Revolutionary Council member and regular columnist for the official PA daily

Headline: “The Martyrs and the prisoners”

“What is happening on the land of Palestine is a crime against humanity in the full sense of the word. The victim is the Palestinian people, while the criminal is the settler and racist colonialist Zionist system. The soldiers in its army, whose brains are filled with orders and instructions to spill blood and murder, and also the invading settlers, are nothing but human robots… even if they appear to our eyes like normal humans, and this is the reality, but they have been stripped of the traits, nature, feelings, and desires of normal humans.This is due to processes of brainwashing, and after the blood cells of racist tendency were mixed with their red and white blood cells, to the point that their desire to kill becomes more lethal than what we see in documentary films on predatory animals in nature – and specifically those who rush to bite into the flesh of the victim and suck its blood, while it is still standing, breathing, and fighting to be saved from the claws and fangs of a flock or group of wild animals.”

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 1, 2022]