Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday launched a major military operation in the occupied West Bank, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians and emboldening foreign settler groups that have already “rampaged through two Palestinian towns,” the Associated Press reported early Wednesday morning.
Israel’s military and police have set up hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints, keeping children from their schools, families and friends from one another, and even patients from medical care. One heart-attack victim reportedly died yesterday when Israeli soldiers refused to let his ambulance pass on its way to a hospital.
The news came barely three days after a ceasefire deal brokered by President Donald Trump’s team took effect.
Trump must act quickly and decisively on the situation in the West Bank. These actions amount to Netanyahu directly…
