‘HORRIFIC ACT OF TERROR’ - has Trump just turned on Israeli settlers?
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In the West Bank village of Qusra, Israeli settlers have spent days besieging Palestinian homes, cutting residents off from food and water - an attack even Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has condemned as a “horrific act of terror”. [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe] But this incident appears to be part of an escalation of settler violence in the West Bank this year. So can Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, who have at times condemned the violence but have also done so much to embolden settlers, reign it in? Or is the situation spiralling out of control? In a statement, the Israeli military said that soldiers had been deployed in Qusra since Thursday morning to protect residents and maintain security, and "were instructed that the Qusra residents will remain in their homes." The military added that "soldiers will not operate inside the Palestinian family's home located near the site where the tent that was
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