West Bank settler violence spikes ahead of Israeli elections

Swelling violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has prompted some allies and staunch defenders to publicly press the Israeli government to do more to stop settler attacks.

JALUD, West Bank — For three months, Mahmoud Tubassi and his family had been enduring a siege: More than a dozen young Israeli settlers surrounded his home in the occupied West Bank almost daily, pelting it with rocks and threatening his family with death.

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