Katz halts settler detention orders, sparking backlash amid rising West Bank tensions.
On Saturday, dozens of settlers, some of them masked, hurled stones at Israeli troops and border police near the West Bank settlement of Itamar.
IDF, Border Police, and other police forces dispersed the right-wing settlers and arrested five suspects.
The damage to the settlement enterprise will not be abated by the signing of a nullification order in Washington.
Five settlers were arrested, and the IDF condemned the incident that saw the settlers block military activities and harass the Central Command chief.
‘It’s a real danger’: Tour of the seam line barrier separating Israel from Judea and Samaria shows vulnerability to assault if preventive action isn’t taken.
About 50 settlers gathered to attack the IDF soldiers, injuring one soldier who was taken to hospital with head injuries.
The United States has for decades backed a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians and has urged Israel not to expand settlements.
When we reconvene for next year’s Middle East Summit, God willing, we’ll have made real progress toward Jewish sovereignty in our biblical heartland.
These fundamentalist Jewish groups twist Jewish tradition into an abominable chimera, mixing biblical literalism, ethno-nationalism, and theological obsessions similar Evangelical Christians.
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