Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Home Amid Clashes with Israeli Militia
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Earlier on Saturday, Israel’s military and police said Israeli rioters arrived in the Qusra area and violent clashes followed. They said dozens of rioters barricaded themselves in a Palestinian home while residents were inside. They said the groups were separated and rioters’ vehicles were confiscated.
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NBC NewsThe attack came amid several violent incidents in the area. Israeli security forces told NBC News they received reports that “Israeli rioters had arrived in the area and that violent clashes had occurred, including stone-hurling toward Palestinians and additional civilians,” addressing violence in nearby Qusra, a Palestinian village that has been besieged by Israeli settlers for weeks.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he condemned the “criminal acts of violence committed in the villages of Kosra and Jalud by a handful of rioters who violate the law, cause enormous injustice to the law-abiding settler public, hinder the IDF in fulfilling its missions and harm Israel’s standing in the world.”
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Associated PressNetanyahu condemnation follows unrest in West Bank town Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned criminal acts by a “handful of rioters” in the occupied West Bank that he said do injustice to the “law-abiding settler public.”
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Netanyahu’s hard-line government has been accused of turning a blind eye to the settler attacks in the West Bank, which many governments around the world consider illegally occupied. In its statement after the attack, Israeli security forces said they “strongly condemn all forms of violence.”
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Associated PressThe statements did not mention any arrests. Netanyahu’s government, the most ultranationalist and religious in Israel’s history, has presided over a surge of settlement construction in the West Bank. Most of the international community views settlements as illegal, and Israel has been seeing an erosion of support in the United States.
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Israeli settlers stage new attack on home in West Bank's Qusra, witnesses say - Reuters Israeli settlers stage new attack on home in West Bank's Qusra, witnesses say Reuters
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01 NBC News Four members of an NBC team were interviewing Aida Ahmed Abdullah and her family in the Palestinian town of Jalud, near Nablus. Abdullah said they had been driven out of their home by Israeli settlers, and the team was walking down the hill toward the house.
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02 Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Israel’s prime minister has spoken out after weeks of settler violence in the occupied West Bank and condemned the actions of a “handful of rioters.” Israeli strikes and fire have killed three Palestinians in Gaza. And Iran’s leadership now centers on military generals and clerics who are long entrenched in the ruling theocracy.
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03 BBC News Violence by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank is set to reach record levels this year, as human rights groups warn that they are increasingly spreading into new areas of the territory.
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