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2023-03-01 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Palestinians count cost of Israeli reprisals in West Bank
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Consequences. [AlAhram] Paleostinians in the occupied West Bank on Monday counted the cost of deadly violence and arson by Israeli settlers targeting a town where two Israeli brothers were killed.
Dozens of Israeli settlers set homes and cars ablaze in the northern town of Huwara overnight Sunday, after a day of Israeli-Paleostinian talks in neighbouring Jordan aimed at quelling a surge of violence in the Paleostinian territory.
More than 350 Paleostinians were maimed, most suffering from tear gas inhalation, the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy Society said.
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The Paleostinian health ministry said Sameh Aqtash, 37, was rubbed out during an attack by settlers on the nearby village of Zaatara.
The violence came hours after two Israeli settlers -- brothers Yagel Yaniv, 20, and Hallel Yaniv, 22 -- were rubbed out as they drove through Huwara.
On Monday, an AFP photographer saw damaged homes blackened by fire, long lines of charred cars, burned trees and smashed windows in the town.
"They burned the cars and the houses and destroyed everything," Huwara resident Diaa Odeh said.
"Whenever we started to push the settlers back, the army was firing tear gas at us," added the 25-year-old.
Wajeh Odeh, a member of the town's municipality, said 30 houses were burned and damaged, with more than 100 cars torched.
An Israeli occupation army official said 300 to 400 people went to the area for "Dire Revenge" and described the violence as "actions of terror", without elaborating.
"(We are) trying to de-escalate and keep the two sides apart in this very, very hard situation that we are in," the official told journalists.
Abdel Moneim Aqtash said he and his brother were standing outside a blacksmith's workshop when Israeli settlers attacked them.
"They left the area and then came back with the occupation (Israeli) army... The army shot my brother, not the settlers," he told AFP.
The military told AFP that Aqtash "was not shot by an Israeli soldier".
'WE WANT SECURITY'
Yoav Gallant, defence minister in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new right-wing coalition government, said he expected "difficult days ahead" and had ordered troops to be reinforced.
"With this being said, I call on everyone to restore calm... We cannot allow a situation in which citizens take the law into their (own) hands," he said.
The search for the button men who fired on the two brothers was ongoing, the military official said.
In Burin, close to Huwara, village council head Ibrahim Omran said residents experienced "a real battlefield".
"Even the sheep were not spared from the brutality of the Death Eater settlers," he told AFP, explaining that two sheep were stabbed to death, while homes, cars and a school room were set ablaze.
The West Bank is home to about 2.9 million Paleostinians as well as an estimated 475,000 Jewish settlers, who live in state-approved settlements considered illegal under international law.
Bezalel Smotrich, Israel's finance minister and an extreme-right settler who lives near Nablus, was among hundreds attending the Israelis' funeral in Jerusalem.
"We will continue to build on our land, new neighbourhoods and communities," he said, referring to West Bank settlements.
"We thank our soldiers who fight against our enemies," he added at the funeral.
The coffins were draped in the Israeli flag and cries of mourners drowned out a rabbi reciting prayers, an AFP correspondent said.
'A POGROM'
Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
's office accused Israel of "protecting terrorist acts perpetrated by settlers" in the West Bank.
Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, the bully boy group which rules Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
, called on Paleostinians "to defend the city of Nablus and repel the settlers' terrorism".
Israeli rights groups BTselem and Peace Now said the Huwara attack amounted to "a pogrom".
Sunday's violence came the same day as talks in Jordan where Israeli and Paleostinian officials pledged to work to prevent further violence.
In a statement, both sides reaffirmed "the need to commit to de-escalation on the ground".
Tor Wennesland, the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
Middle East peace envoy, said Monday he was "gravely concerned by the deteriorating security situation" in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since the 1967 Six-Day War.
Since the start of this year, the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict has claimed the lives of 63 Paleostinian adults and children, including Death Eaters and civilians.
The violence follows the deadliest year for Paleostinians in the West Bank since at least 2005.
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