Vigilante action has become “much more brazen, with hundreds attacking villages in broad daylight,” says Omer Bar-Lev, a Labour politician who served in the previous Israeli government. “They are being encouraged by cabinet ministers”
Only a small military force was deployed, but it protected the settlers and fired tear gas at the Palestinians, said a villager. One Palestinian was killed by an Israeli officer who said he had been fired on.
Turmus Ayya was one of several Palestinian villages attacked in a three-day spree. Such vigilante action has long been common in the West Bank. But in the past it was carried out by small groups, usually at night, says Omer Bar-Lev, a Labour politician who as public security minister in the previous Israeli government urged the army to arrest violent settlers. “Now it’s much more brazen, with hundreds attacking villages in broad daylight. They are being encouraged by cabinet ministers.
Support for the settlers from Binyamin Netanyahu’s far-right government is unprecedented. Last week Itamar Ben-Gvir, the national security minister, told settlers they had his “full and complete backing” and called on the army to “exterminate” terrorists. Following a previous rampage in the Palestinian town of Huwara, after two Israelis had been killed there, Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, said in March “Huwara needs to be wiped out.
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