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EU agrees sanctions on Israeli settlers over West Bank violence
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- Ione Wells Jerusalem EPAIsraeli settlers set fire to two vehicles and a Bedouin tent south of Nablus in one attack last month.
- There has been a surge in attacks by settlers since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, the UN has recorded.
- Settlements - illegal under international law - are built on Israeli-occupied land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, areas Palestinians claim for a future state.
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Ione Wells Jerusalem EPAIsraeli settlers set fire to two vehicles and a Bedouin tent south of Nablus in one attack last month. The twenty-seven foreign ministers of the European Union approved new sanctions on Monday on Israeli settlers over rising violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
There has been a surge in attacks by settlers since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, the UN has recorded.
Settlements - illegal under international law - are built on Israeli-occupied land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, areas Palestinians claim for a future state.
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