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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Andrew Roth and Sufian Taha in Deir Jarir

IDF accused of working with settlers after latest deadly West Bank raid

Crowd of men escort two green open coffins
The bodies of Awda Abulrahim Farahneh and Ahmed Adil Abu Muhu, killed in Israeli raids at the village of Deir Jarir, are taken to a burial ground on Monday. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty

Even by the brutal standards of militant settler violence in the West Bank, the raid on Deir Jarir late on Sunday night that killed two Palestinians and left another in hospital with a gunshot wound was extreme.

Palestinians in the town said settlers from a nearby outpost arrived after 9pm on Sunday claiming that they were searching for stolen livestock. Israeli soldiers and police soon joined them, protecting them as they sought to take several villagers’ sheep by force.

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