...under US President Donald Trump, they are already now experiencing the tactics that are so familiar to Palestinian victims of the Israeli military and illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.
The parallels are impossible to ignore.
In 2025, 32 people, called “illegals”, died in ICE custody, making it the deadliest year in two decades. They died of seizure, heart failure, stroke, respiratory failure, infectious disease, suicide or neglect. ICE accepted no responsibility for their deaths. In the occupied West Bank...Israeli forces and settlers have killed more than 1,100 Palestinians in two years and four months.
Nearly 75 percent of the 68,440 people ICE detained last year had no criminal record. Thousands of Palestinians are currently being held in Israeli prisons without charge or a trial. Across the country, ICE violence is depriving children of education and businesses. For example, in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, 30,000 students, nearly 20 percent of district enrolment, were
absent the week after raids began in 2025, and in Los Angeles, shop owners reported a
significant loss in sales as customers stayed home.
In Israeli detention, at least 75 Palestinians were
killed between October 7, 2023 and August 2025... In at least 12 cases, detainees
died after being beaten or tortured by Israeli security forces. More than 300 Palestinian children are currently being
held in military detention as of November 2025. These children are detained indefinitely without charge or trial based on secret evidence that is neither disclosed to them nor to their attorneys.
The reason why the violence we see in the US is so reminiscent of what happens in the West Bank is because what we face: Security structures shaped by white supremacy and a colonial mindset.
Ahmad Ibsais @
Al Jazeera