The Israeli general in charge of troops in the West Bank said Tuesday that vigilante settlers who rampaged through a Palestinian town in the West Bank Sunday night had carried out a “pogrom” that caught the military off-guard.
The Head of the IDF Central Command, Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs, also told Hebrew-language media that he was worried clashes between soldiers and settlers would eventually lead to Israelis being killed, and accused the Jewish extremists of “spreading terror.”
Fuchs said troops had been prepared for small-scale disturbances Sunday night following the deadly Palestinian terror attack near Nablus earlier in the day in which two Israeli brothers were shot dead, expecting groups of settlers to protest at junctions and throw stones at Palestinian cars. READ MORE