State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel began his press briefing by issuing a statement on the latest uptick in Israeli-Palestinian violence, condemning the Palestinian shooting attack outside the Eli settlement that left four Israelis dead, before noting the “troubling” reports of subsequent settler violence across the West Bank.
Hundreds of Israeli settlers tore through the Palestinian town of Turmus Ayya on Wednesday afternoon, setting homes, cars and fields on fire and terrorizing residents shortly after Israeli victims of Tuesday’s attack were buried. READ MORE
