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A group of 20 or so settlers was caught on camera Monday as they ran down a hillside toward the village of Jaloud.
Another close-up video shows them setting fire to a house as scared Palestinian women scream and huddle out front.
Black smoke billows from the door.
According to the UN Office for Humanitarian Coordination, some 36,000 Palestinians have been displaced in the West Bank since the October 7, 2023 war in Gaza.
The organization says more than 1,000 have been killed by settlers and the Israeli army in the last two and a half years.
Two settlers in the Israeli cabinet have made no secret of the fact that they want to drive Palestinians from their land and increase settlements.
More settlements have been approved in the last year than in the previous two decades.
Eleanor Beardsley in PR News, Tel Aviv.
In interviews with newspaper Haaretz, Israeli soldiers described the theft of motorcycles, televisions, paintings, sofas, and rugs on a wide scale, which they said has become routine.
They said both senior and junior commanders on the ground are aware of the phenomenon but are not taking disciplinary action to curb it.
Israel's military chief, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, has now instructed all commanders to carry out a thorough investigation of each unit and appointed a team to examine each case individually.
Zamir called the acts described a disgrace and against our values.
Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
Leftist Yair Lapid and mainstream right Naftali Bennett announced they will unite forces to oppose Netanyahu.
Tel Aviv University economics professor Itay Attar says that's good because for the first time in 20 years, the number of people leaving the country has surpassed the number coming in.
Those immigrating cite Netanyahu's attempts to chip away at the independence of the judiciary and the war in Gaza.
Attar says only new leadership can stop the brain drain and bring Israelis who've immigrated back home.
Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Tel Aviv.