Outgoing Israeli general condemns settler violence in occupied West Bank
Al Jazeera
Yehuda Fox said that the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, is in Israel’s security interest.
An Israeli general has condemned the government’s decision to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank and criticised rising levels of settler violence in the region, according to Israeli media reports.
Major General Yehuda Fox, the outgoing head of Israel’s central command, said at a departure ceremony on Monday that Israeli settlers have engaged in “nationalist crime” through violence in the occupied West Bank, which he said has “sowed chaos and fear in Palestinian residents who did not pose any threat.”
“This is not Judaism in my eyes. At least not the one I grew up with in my father and mother’s house. This is not the way of the Torah. It is adopting the ways of the enemy,” Fox said.
Israeli forces and settlers have inreased increased raids on Palestinian towns and villages in the occupied West Bank since Israel’s war in Gaza began in October.
Since October, at least 553 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the territory, and 9,510 have been detained, according to Palestinian officials.
