‘Israeli settlers are in partnership with the army,’ say Palestinians after two shot dead in West Bank

The Guardian reports that a nighttime raid on the West Bank town of Deir Jarir left two Palestinians dead and another hospitalized with a gunshot wound. Residents say settlers from a nearby outpost arrived after nine on Sunday night, claiming to be searching for stolen livestock, and that Israeli soldiers and police soon joined them, protecting the group as they seized villagers' sheep by force. Locals describe the killings not as an isolated incident but as part of a broader pattern of settler violence, telling the paper the settlers are effectively operating in partnership with the army.

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