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US’ Blinken urges Israel to stop settler violence in West Bank

US State Secretary Antony Blinken speaks with reporters about his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani before departing Baghdad International Airport in Baghdad, Iraq, November 5, 2023 [Jonathan Ernst/Pool via Reuters]

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has asked Israel to take “urgent” steps to stop violence being carried out by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

The top US diplomat made the call in a telephone call with Benny Gantz, a centrist opposition leader who joined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wartime cabinet after Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel.

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