DUMA, Palestinian Territories: As violence surges in the occupied West Bank, Palestinians and human rights groups decry an increasingly blurry distinction between the Israeli army and settlers, emboldened by the current pro-settlement government.
A boy holds an Israeli flag as members of the Israeli settler community gather at a convention calling for Israel to rebuild settlements in the Gaza Strip and the northern part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank , in Jerusalem on Jan 28, 2024.
With each attack, a similar story – armed settlers, sometimes wearing the army's khaki fatigues, attack Palestinian villagers, burn their houses and cars and steal their livestock, sometimes under the passive gaze of soldiers. Not counting annexed east Jerusalem, more than 490,000 Israelis live in the West Bank in settlements considered illegal under international law, alongside some three million Palestinians.
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