Israeli crackdown in occupied West Bank intensifies, settlers cause mayhem

The Israeli military has launched an aggressive crackdown in the occupied West Bank, storming several towns and villages and detaining hundreds of Palestinians, amid escalating attacks by Jewish settlers, in a furious reaction to a shootout in a village near Nablus in which four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers were killed.The “wide-scale military operation” across the West Bank ordered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following the deaths of the soldiers intensified on Sunday, and settlers became bolder and more violent, marauding through villages, scrawling graffiti on buildings and attacking Palestinians.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3What’s behind the Israeli crackdown in the occupied West Bank?list 2 of 3Israel arrests nine at Tel Aviv protest against West Bank settler violencelist 3 of 3House of Hope: New film follows a Waldorf-inspired school in the West Bankend of listSettlers tried to set two mosques ablaze. At one of those, the newly built Al-Rahma Mosque in the town of Qusra southeast of Nablus, settlers spray-painted slogans like “Jewish revenge” on the walls, said Abdel Azim Wadi, ⁠head of the village council in Qusra. Videos verified by...