Senior Christian clerics and international envoys denounced a wave of violent attacks by Israeli settlers, slamming Tel Aviv’s Western allies of enabling lawlessness against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Settler militias, backed by Israeli political leaders, are intensifying efforts to displace Palestinians and seize land in the West Bank

‘Since the war in Gaza, we clearly see a coordinated strategy by Israeli politics, the settler movement and the army to ethnically cleanse and annex the West Bank’, said Ubai Al-Aboudi, director of the Bisan research centre, in Ramallah.