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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

EU Diplomat Demands Accountability Following Israeli Settler Rampage in West Bank

Knesset (Parliament) member for Israel's Religious Zionism party Tzvi Sukkot (L) is confronted as he tries to interrupt a rally by Palestinian and Israeli peace activists protesting at the entrance of Huwara in the occupied West Bank, on March 3, 2023, following deadly violence by Israeli settlers. (AFP)

The European Union's envoy to the Palestinians called on Friday for accountability and for perpetrators to be brought to justice after a rampage by Israeli settlers this week in the occupied West Bank in which one Palestinian was killed and dozens of houses, shops and cars were torched.

Ambassador Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff, heading one of the biggest EU delegations to visit the West Bank, said the officials wanted to see with their own eyes the damage left by Sunday's violence in and around the Palestinian village of Huwara. The rampage followed a Palestinian gun attack that killed two Israeli brothers.

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