India, April 28 -- In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, donkeys embody both Palestinian endurance and acute vulnerability.

Once symbols of humility and redemption, they are now targets of settler violence, theft and neglect, especially in the West Bank and Gaza.

Their suffering, alongside selective rescue efforts by Israeli sanctuaries, exposes how animal welfare, colonial dispossession and human precarity are deeply intertwined.

Donkeys tend to symbolise humility and redemption; in Jewish tradition, the Messiah will arrive on a white donkey.

But in today's "land of the Bible," donkeys have become victims of the war in Gaza and, increasingly, targets of the growing settler violence in the West Bank.

Take what happened in December 202...