What’s behind Netanyahu’s condemnation of this weekend’s settler pogroms?
A wave of coordinated Israeli settler attacks swept across the occupied West Bank over the weekend, leaving dozens of Palestinians injured and properties torched. The pogroms have seen little or no response from Israeli police and soldiers.
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- Fact 1: The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned the escalation, particularly the 20-day siege on al-Mughayyir, describing it as a systematic policy of forced displacement and colonial expansion.
- Fact 2: “He puts forward a political equation stating that there are 500,000 legitimate settlers, alongside a few dozen deviants or anomalies,” Jabareen said.
- Fact 3: Israeli settlers confront Palestinian and Israeli activists accompanying Palestinian landowners on their property, which is threatened with confiscation by Israeli settlers, in Beit Sahour in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, August 14, 2026 [Mussa Qawasma/Reuters]Engineered expansion While top Israeli officials publicly distance themselves from individual attacks, the government is still systematically funding, legalising, and expanding the settlers’ presence.
- Fact 4: A report by the Israeli organisation Peace Now detailed how successive governments, heavily influenced by Netanyahu, have thrived on expanding settlements since the 1993 Oslo Accords.
A wave of coordinated Israeli settler attacks swept across the occupied West Bank over the weekend, leaving dozens of Palestinians injured and properties torched. The pogroms have seen little or no response from Israeli police and soldiers.
Dozens of settlers attacked a Palestinian home in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, with tear gas and stones, injuring seven people. A Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulance that attempted to reach the besieged families was also attacked. Simultaneously, Israeli forces fired tear gas during incursions into the Far’a refugee camp, el-Bireh, and al-Mughayyir.
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