Iran Press/ West Asia: Channel 12 reported that Shin Bet head Ronen Bar has alerted the war cabinet, wider cabinet, and the Israeli military establishment over the matter.
The US and EU have also warned that the West Bank is at a boiling point.
“These incidents are likely to set the area alight” and harm the war effort against Hamas, the report quoted Israeli sources as saying.
Channel 12 said some Israeli decision-makers are urging far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich, a minister within the War Ministry, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir “to take responsibility and calm things down.”
Israel’s Yesh Din rights group said last week that there had been over 100 incidents of settler violence and harassment against Palestinians in at least 62 Palestinian towns and communities in the West Bank since Hamas’s assault on Israel on October 7, and the beginning of Israel’s military campaign against Gaza.
On Saturday, 40-year-old Palestinian Bilal Muhammed Saleh, 40, was shot in the chest and killed by a settler outside the village of As-Sawiya some 15 kilometers south of Yitzhar.
According to Haaretz, Saleh was part of a group harvesting olives outside the village near Nablus when they were attacked by settlers.
Several olive groves were attacked in the area.
In various incidents, settlers have stolen Palestinian property such as solar panels and generators, and carried out acts of vandalism such as torching homes and vehicles and uprooting trees.
The rights group announced that not a single settler has been detained, arrested, or investigated following the assaults. The police did not respond to a request for comment.
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