When a group of more than 100 Jewish pogromists, masked and armed with pistols and automatic rifles, killed a Palestinian, injured others and burned homes in the Palestinian town of Jit in the northern occupied West Bank last week, the Israeli government swiftly condemned them.
“It is an extreme minority that harms the law-abiding settlement community and the entire settlement and the name and status of Israel in the world,” Isaac Herzog, Israel’s president, wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office reportedly called for the arrest and trial of “those responsible for any offense.”
Indeed, a grand total of four settlers were arrested.
The settlers shot at Palestinian villagers, threw stones at their homes and set fire to their vehicles and homes, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights reported…..more
