The trail of wreckage along Duma’s main road is the aftermath of a three-hour attack in mid-April that left 15 homes damaged by arson and six residents injured by bullets, the head of its village council said. It was one of nearly 800 settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since Hamas attacked Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, according to the UN.
The latest attack against Duma was part of a wave of settler violence touched off by the death of a 14-year-old Israeli who went missing on the morning of April 12. Authorities found his body the next day and they have arrested a man from Duma who they say was connected to the boy’s alleged murder. “My daughter was at her uncle’s house, there was no one there,” he said. “What they do to her I don’t know.”
The United States has increased pressure on Israel to curb settler attacks in the West Bank, sanctioning some leaders in April, including a close ally of Israel’s far right national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir. Outposts often receive tacit government support and sometimes they gain formal recognition—and receive funding—from the Israeli government.Overlooking Jordan and Israeli settlements to the east, the village is surrounded more closely by at least three outposts that the head of its council says have expanded gradually over the past decade.
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