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Settlers set IDF security facility ablaze as scrutiny over settler violence in the West Bank mounts

JL;DR SUMMARY In a troubling escalation of violence, Jewish settlers set a West Bank security facility ablaze amid ongoing tensions with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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West BankIdfBenjamin NetanyahuIsraeli PoliticsSettler ViolenceExtremismSecurityGideon SaarYair GolanIsrael Katz

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Jericho, Palestinian Territories
"The escalation of rioting by Israeli settlers comes after a violent attack Wednesday by armed Israeli settlers on two Palestinian villages in the West Bank."
Kafr Malik, Ramallah and al-Bireh, Palestinian Territories
"The violence comes after six settlers were arrested overnight Friday for assaulting a group of IDF reservists near the Palestinian village of Kafr Malik."
Israel
"Critics of extremist settlers and of the government in recent months have said that attacks by Jews on Palestinians living in the West Bank invariably go unpunished, and have intensified with attention focused on the war in Gaza."

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