In the latest incident, Israeli police arrested five settlers suspected of breaking into the home of a Palestinian shepherd in the southern West Bank overnight between Monday and Tuesday, in what appeared to be a rare and unusual intervention by Israeli authorities.

The settlers slaughtered the shepherd’s sheep and assaulted other residents, an attack emblematic of the growing brutality faced by Palestinians across the West Bank.

The surge in settler violence and military raids coincides with Israel’s approval of 19 new illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said the move was intended to block the creation of a Palestinian state, making explicit what Palestinians and rights groups have long argued is a policy of permanent dispossession.

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