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Sophie Claudet

Exclusive: Israel to crack down on settler violence in the West Bank

A document seen exclusively by Euronews shows instructions by the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Israeli army and police to crack down on settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

The instructions, shared in a non-public document titled "Prime Minister’s Directive on Combating Nationalist Crimes​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ in Judea and Samaria," are an exceedingly unusual move for the Netanyahu administration. Judea and Samaria are the biblical names of the area known today as the West Bank.

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