Netanyahu supporters blame radicals and “drug-addled teens” for attacks eroding Palestinian self-rule. Others see “state violence” and hope Gadi Eisenkot has an answer.
A masked Israeli settler harasses a family that now lives behind razor wire in the West Bank town of Taybeh. (Heidi Levine/For The Washington Post)
TURMUS AYYA, West Bank — Fayez Hijaz thought he was safe picking olives in his own yard, in a village where his family has lived for generations, in a part of the West Bank that even Israel’s settlers had long considered off limits.The Israeli settler who followed him to his tree on a recent Thursday had other ideas.
