Masked settlers attack European diplomats in occupied West Bank
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Masked settlers attacked a group of European diplomats during a visit to the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Belgium’s foreign minister said, on a second day of high-profile assaults on Palestinians and others during the sensitive olive harvest.
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At least four people have been killed and more than 100 injured since the harvest began earlier this month, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Activists say Israeli authorities do little to stop attacks that involve weapons ranging from slingshots to guns. An attack on Friday seriously injured a Washington Post photographer and others.
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In Saturday’s attack in the village of Taybeh, settlers targeted Belgium’s consul general, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives, the Belgian foreign minister, Maxime Prevot, said.
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“A French mayor was assaulted and a Belgian vehicle damaged. Our team is safe,” Prevot said. He linked the attack to what he called Israel’s “illegal settlement policy” and pledged to push for further EU sanctions.
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Israeli authorities must protect Palestinians as the “occupying power”, Prevot added. “Impunity for violent settlers must end.” The attacks came less than two weeks before closely contested elections that could end the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s time in office.
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His government, the most nationalist and far right in Israel’s history, faces domestic criticism over security failures and international criticism over the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Israel’s military called Saturday’s attack on the diplomats a “severe act of violence” but said the visit had not been coordinated with it and no soldiers were at the scene.
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The Israeli police said it had opened an investigation.
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“The Israel police condemns violence of any kind and will work to complete these investigations until everyone who took part in these cases is brought to justice,” the police statement said.
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“I strongly condemn the severe acts of violence by Israeli rioters,” the country’s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, said on X, adding that his ministry was in contact with ambassadors from the countries concerned.
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On Saturday, Prevot condemned “in the strongest terms” the attack by Israeli settlers on the European diplomatic convoy.
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“Impunity for violent settlers must end,” he said on X.
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“This violence cannot be separated from Israel’s illegal settlement policy.
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“Belgium condemns settlement expansion and attempts to forcibly displace Palestinians from their land.”
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