Settlers

Security establishment figures said this was a serious escalation of "right-wing activism" in the West Bank.

At this point, the government has no plans to return to Gush Katif.

Violent acts by some Israeli settlers in the West Bank have increased dramatically since last October, said Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi.

According to videos and witness testimonies obtained by CNN, Israelis attacked the foreign and Palestinian individuals with “thick wooden sticks almost like baseball bats.”

KAN wrote that two Palestinians, a 38-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman, were wounded, and the woman remains in hospital.

The individuals on the list are members of Tzav 9, an organization that regularly blocks humanitarian aid trucks from entering Gaza.

Using the threat of settlements as a “punishment” feeds directly into the narrative that an Israeli presence on the West Bank is an obstacle to a peace agreement and is inherently counterproductive.

While speaking at a private event, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that his goal was to prevent the West Bank from becoming part of a Palestinian state, describing changes as "mega-dramatic."

This platform is built on two fundamental falsehoods to justify atrocities, at least against Jews, and suspends justice and morality that has corrupted many liberation movements in recent centuries.

Since the beginning of the war, news outlets have been quick to tell partial stories of events in the West Bank and face no backlash when the whole truth comes to light.