Palestine: Israeli settlers escalate violence in West Bank

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Violence by Israeli settlers has increased in the occupied West Bank, where Palestinian families lost their homes and vehicles in a new arson attack south of Hebron. Settlers set fire to five houses and several vehicles in the village of Susya, also throwing tear gas into homes, causing at least four residents to suffer from suffocation. This incident is part of a broader escalation that saw more than 450 attacks by settlers in January alone across Palestinian territory. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert acknowledged that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is carrying out ethnic cleansing to forcibly displace the Palestinian population.    #teleSUREnglish #Palestine #WestBank #IsraeliSettlers #Violence #HumanRights #EthnicCleansing

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00:00Violence by Israeli settlers continues in the occupied West Bank.

00:04Palestinian families lost their homes and vehicles in a new arson attack south of the

00:09Hebron.

00:10Israeli settlers set fire to five houses and several vehicles in the Palestinian village

00:14of Sursia, in the occupied West Bank.

00:17The attackers threw tear gas onto the houses, causing at least four residents to suffer

00:22from suffocation.

00:24This is the latest in an escalation of violence that, in January alone, saw more than 450

00:29attacks by settlers in different areas of the Palestinian territory.

00:33Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted that Benjamin Netanyahu's Zionist regime

00:39is carrying out ethnic clans that forcibly displaced the Palestinian population.

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