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Today in Focus

Israel and the West Bank: a week of rage and rampage

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Escalating violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories is happening amid unprecedented anti-government protests. It’s no coincidence, reports Bethan McKernan. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:10.8

Today, unprecedented protests in Israel, escalating violence in the West Bank,

0:16.2

and the extremist forces driving both.

0:30.0

Every time there's some kind of attack committed by a Palestinian against an Israeli

0:43.2

settler living in the West Bank.

0:46.0

The local Palestinian community will brace itself for basically revenge attacks.

0:51.0

The Israeli army even has a name for this.

0:53.0

They call it price tag attacks.

0:56.0

Bethan McCurden is the Guardian's Jerusalem correspondent.

0:59.0

A few days ago, she heard news that a suspected Palestinian gunman had attacked some Israelis,

1:03.9

living in a settlement on Palestinian land.

1:07.0

So there were two Israeli brothers who were shot dead when they were driving through

1:13.0

who are on Sunday afternoon.

1:15.0

This is where the attack happened in the town of Huwara in the occupied West Bank.

1:20.0

Two brothers from a nearby legal Israeli settlement were shot while driving in a car.

1:25.0

Israeli forces say they're looking for Palestinian suspects.

1:28.0

When that happened in the context of how tense everything in the West Bank is anyway,

1:34.0

all the Palestinians in the area knew that they had to be kind of prepared for retaliation attacks.

1:40.0

Revenge, the price tag attack, came a few hours later in a clutch of villages.

1:46.0

One was Huwara, another was Zatara.

1:49.0

Bethan was there in the aftermath and residents told her what had happened.

1:54.0

Basically around sunsets, there was this initial group of about 40 Zettlers,

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