Surging settler violence in the West Bank hung over Trump-Netanyahu White House meeting

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Failure to act on “the rising swell in Jewish settler terror activity” could “prove more catastrophic” than the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, hundreds of retired Israeli officers have warned.

Israeli settlers torch mosque in West Bank village

A man inspects fire damage and Hebrew graffiti at Al-Rahmah Mosque after an arson attack in the village of Qusra, in the occupied West Bank, on Sunday.Hisham K. K. Abu Shaqra/ / Anadolu via Getty Images

Aug. 1, 2026, 9:17 AM EDT

By Richard Engel, Marc Smith and Henry Austin

QUSRA, West Bank — Spiraling Jewish settler violence in the occupied West Bank loomed over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump earlier this week, even though Iran was the main topic of discussion.

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