- In the West Bank village of Qusra, Palestinians have been largely confined to their homes by violent Israeli settlers — U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee even called the settlers "terrorists," while the army has been slow to remove them.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has boosted settlement growth and tolerated outposts, aiming to cement Israeli control of the West Bank and complicate prospects for a Palestinian state.
- The situation has drawn international criticism and some sanctions (later contested), spotlighting uneven law enforcement, human-rights concerns, and how Israeli politics rely on hard-line settler allies.
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