Settler violence in the occupied West Bank is unacceptable, the EU and the UK stated yesterday. “Impunity for such acts risks provoking further violence,” an EU spokesperson stated, while referencing the killings of six Palestinians since 28th February by “extremist Israeli settlers.”

Germany’s spokesman for Berlin’s Foreign Office called the killings “incidents”, adding, “The fact that five Palestinians were killed in just one week is indeed a sad climax.” It is a continuation, not a single escalation, of state and settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

In just over two years since 7th October 2023, Israeli settlers killed 1,121 Palestinians. Another 11,700 were injured by settlers and Israeli forces; the latter also arresting almost 22,000 Palestinians. The Israeli non-governmental organisation B’Tselem noted that settler militias are expanding their attacks against Palestinian communities in Area B of the occupied West........

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