Zionist Mothers for Genocide

Her group loves to dance, while blocking aid to Gaza. Genocide is such a fun group activity. The reason for the dancing is made plain, in case there is any doubt: ""Look closely, Gaza. We will still dance in your ruin."

Meet, Reut Ben Haim, a 38-year-old mother of eight from Netivot, Israel. She is an Israeli activist and co-founder (along with Shlomo Sarid) of the violent settler movement Tzav 9, which emerged in early 2024. She works diligently to make sure that no aid reaches the people starving in Gaza, because she says such aid only “benefits” Hamas. It is a cruel logic, but typical of the Zionist mindset. She can be seen on social media, clutching a baby of hers, while demanding death for babies in Gaza.

Her group, Tzav 9, is an extremist one, formed in January 2024, and consists mainly of Israeli settlers, IDF reservists, and families of hostages taken by Hamas in October 2023. The group has more than 400 members and is known for violent actions aimed at blocking and sabotaging humanitarian aid convoys destined for the Gaza Strip. Their activities include protests, physical blockades, looting, and burning aid trucks, actions they justify by claiming they want to prevent aid from reaching Hamas. Tzav 9's name is derived from the Israeli military’s call-up order for reservists ("Order 9"), symbolizing its ties to Israeli army reservists and its origins linked to those affected by the October 7 Hamas attacks.

The cofounder of Tzav, Shlomo Sarid, has been specifically accused of involvement in violent activities in the West Bank. The allegations against Sarid and his group include:

• Leading attacks on humanitarian aid convoys en route to Gaza through Israel and the West Bank.

• Participating in actions such as blockading roads, ransacking trucks, damaging vehicles, and assaulting aid truck drivers and Israeli soldiers.

• Engaging in violent actions connected to illegal settler outposts used as bases to displace Palestinians.

• Involvement in extremist settler violence, including harassment, violence, dispossession, and forced displacement of Palestinian communities in the West Bank.

Ben Ham herself has carried out the following actions:

• Blocking and harassing aid convoys carrying humanitarian assistance to Gaza.

• Damaging and vandalizing aid trucks and cargo.

• Setting fire to trucks carrying humanitarian supplies.

• Looting aid trucks near Hebron.

• Dumping food supplies on roads, thereby preventing aid from reaching Palestinians in need.

• Physically assaulting drivers and even Israeli Defense Forces soldiers involved in aid transport.

These activities led to sanctions by the Biden administration, in June 2024, of Ben Haim, Sarid, Tzav 9, and several other individuals and violent groups. Other countries, like Canada and the EU, have also placed similar sanctions on them. These sanctions reflect the leadership roles of Ben Haim and Sarid in organized extremist violence against Palestinians. These sanctions aimed to freeze assets and prohibit funding for settler extremism, including asset freezes and travel restrictions.

The sanctions included freezing assets and prohibiting U.S. persons from providing funds or services to them. This had a direct personal impact: Ben Haim's bank accounts, including a small business account, were frozen. Her husband, Yosef Ben Haim, who is a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, faced severe difficulties managing family expenses such as food, education, medicine, and mortgage payments because of the sanctions against his wife. This has led to lawsuits alleging violations of constitutional rights including free speech and due process.

The sanctions also affected Tzav 9's operations. The group, which had engaged in blocking and harassing humanitarian aid convoys heading to Gaza, reportedly ceased such activities after the sanctions were imposed. Ben Haim indicated that while hostage-prisoner swaps continue, the group would not disrupt aid convoys.

Despite the sanctions, Ben Haim reportedly sought ways to bypass the restrictions by directing supporters to channel funds through alternative means, like Israeli online payment services, to avoid U.S. financial controls. She also Ben Haim also publicly criticized these sanctions as anti-democratic and stigmatizing families of hostages and bereaved families opposing aid to Hamas. In other words, her entitlement is more important than the suffering and death she works to inflict on Palestinians.

But as history will record, in January of 2025, Americans elected as their president the greatest humanitarian of all ages, and all-around stable genius.

And Ben Haim struck while the iron was hot. She sent an urgent letter to Trump shortly before his inauguration in January 2025, appealing for the sanctions against her, Tzav 9, and other such groups to be lifted and for a halt to humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza, which she argued empowered Hamas.

Struck to the core of his humanity, Trump’s altruism went into overdrive, for he knows that his philanthropy will be sung about for a thousand years to come, likely more.

And true to his Trumpian wisdom, the first thing that Trump did on January 20, 2025 was to rescind the sanctions on Ben Haim and her Tzav 9 group, and many other such violent entities—for there is no greater injustice in the entire universe than trying to limit in any way the cruelty that Zionist settlers love to unleash on Palestinians. If there is one thing that Trumpian “morality” abhors it is curbing Israeli entitlement and the Zionist capacity for cruelty.

Now that the leash is off, Ben Haim and her Tzav 9 have happily resumed their murderous ways. She has taken up her prominent role of opposing aid to Gaza, advocating for halting such deliveries, citing security and humanitarian concerns in light of the Hamas threat. She emphasizes the legitimacy of her protests and has called for legal and governmental protection of such actions and those involved.

A Zionist-mother’s day is never done.

As a side note, there are other such Zionist “motherly” groups, who work along side Ben Haimm and her Tzav 9.

The Warrior Mothers group is chiefly known for its involvement in protests and demonstrations aimed at blocking the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. The group's activities include physically preventing the passage of aid trucks at key crossings, such as Kerem Shalom, Nitzana crossing, and the Port of Ashdod, and blocking roads used by aid trucks. These protests began around January 2024 and are intended to pressure Hamas to release hostages taken during the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.

The group's actions have include:

• Organizing blockades at crossings and key transport points for humanitarian aid into Gaza.

• Engaging in confrontational activities such as throwing stones and setting tires on fire on trucks they believed were carrying aid to Gaza.

• Instances of violence against truck drivers and clashes with military forces who tried to intervene.

• Coordinating with other right-wing activist groups, including settlers from the West Bank, with some protesters involving young children.

• Using intimidation tactics such as demanding proof from drivers that their cargo was not for Gaza aid.

Then there is the Forum Tikva (in Hebrew tikva means “hope”). It is yet another extremist group, composed by Israelis whose family members were taken as hostages by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

The group strongly opposes humanitarian aid to Gaza as long as hostages remain captive. They believe that only increased military pressure on Hamas, including a complete cutting off of water, electricity, food can force the release of all hostages at once. Forum Tikva has organized and participated in protests blocking aid delivery to the Gaza Strip, aiming to pressure Hamas by preventing humanitarian supplies from reaching Gaza. They argue that providing aid empowers Hamas and delays the hostages' release.
Specifically, Forum Tikva, together with Tzav 9 and Warrior Mothers, have worked tirelessly to block aid for Gaza at key crossings and ports (Kerem Shalom and Ashdod), which handle aid deliveries to Gaza from Israel. These actions aimed to pressure Hamas to release hostages.

Forum Tikva also criticizes government decisions that resume humanitarian aid deliveries without securing new mechanisms to prevent Hamas from exploiting the supplies. They consider resuming aid without such safeguards a serious mistake that risks further lives and delays hostage release.

The organization We Will Not Forget is another right-wing Israeli group involved in escalating the blockade and violent protests against humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza. In May 2024, this group was reported as the main actor responsible for increasing confrontational tactics and violence. Members of We Will Not Forget allegedly received advance information about the routes of aid trucks from some officials, including employees of the crossings authority and some soldiers and policemen. Their actions have included aggressive blocking and destruction of aid shipments intended for Gaza, aligned with the broader aim of pressuring Hamas by stopping aid until Israeli hostages held by Hamas are released.

This group is part of a broader movement of right-wing Israeli activists and settlers who oppose aid going to Gaza under the conditions that Hamas controls the area and holds hostages. Their protests have included physically violent disruptions to aid convoys, sometimes without intervention by Israeli security forces, or even with reported complicity from some members within those forces.

The Zionist poison runs deep.