Terrorism: “the fire is inside the house”
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The Israeli government continues to treat violent settlers with leniency (to put it mildly) and for many, even if there is some recognition that settler violence might be going “too far”, most consider it justified revenge for October 7th 2023 as well as a way to ethnically cleanse the West Bank – and East Jerusalem.
Huwara in the north West Bank has come under attack again and again. One such attack took place in February this year after which, “Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for Huwara to be “wiped out.”
A further attack took place at the end of May and on Israel’s Channel 12 breakfast show a pundit echoed this saying: “Huwara should have been wiped out a long time ago … it should face the same fate as Jenin’s refugee camp, Beit Hanoun [in Gaza] and Bint Jbeil [in southern Lebanon].”
This article was originally published by Ha'aretz on Sun 7 Jun 2026. Read the original here.
From Hamas to Huwara: What's the Difference Between Jewish and Palestinian Terror?
When the image of a group of black-clad settlers driving into the West Bank town of Huwara to attack Palestinians circulated over the weekend, many Israelis saw a visual parallel to the Hamas attack of October 7. Was the resemblance intentional? Are there different tiers of terror?
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