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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Israel Court Charges 2 Settlers with ‘Terror’ for Attacking Palestinians

A damaged window of a store is seen after settlers set fire to vehicles, houses, and stores in Huwara. (EPA)

An Israeli court charged on Thursday two Jewish settlers with “committing an act of terror” for attacking Palestinians in a village in the occupied West Bank this month, officials said.

The rare indictment, normally reserved for Palestinians, came after a group of settlers attacked a Palestinian family in their car in Huwara, where eight days earlier, on February 26, two Israeli settlers had been shot dead amid a surge in violence in the Palestinian territory.

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