Ofer Cassif: Attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank amount to 'state terrorism'

By Al Jazeera English

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In an interview with Al Jazeera, Israeli Knesset member Ofer Cassif said attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank amount to “state terrorism”. He said: “The settlers are the proxies of the government and the occupation forces. This is a clear "state terrorism". They finance that, they support it, and they encourage it.” Cassif described recent attacks on Palestinian communities, including a fire set by settlers in Um al-Khair last Wednesday where people were “almost burnt to death”, and a pregnant woman had her arm broken by a settler. He said law enforcement agencies know who the settlers are but refuse to act, noting that he wrote to the Attorney General about another pogrom in Huwara in May 2023 and received no serious reply. Cassif said the escalation continues because the government “doesn't want to stop it”, calling it “part of the extermination project, of the ethnic cleansing”. He concluded: “Palestinians and Israelis, Arabs and Jews together, we are brothers and

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