Does violence by settlers inflame crisis?

 Yes, violence by Israeli settlers is inflaming the crisis in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to the search results, there has been a dramatic rise in violence carried out by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank

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. The UN's humanitarian agency (OCHA) says it has registered over 700 incidents this year where settler violence has resulted in Palestinian casualties, damage to property, or both. The number is the highest since it began recording such acts in 2006

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. Israeli settler violence and illegal takeover of Palestinian lands have forcibly transferred nearly 500 Palestinians from seven communities

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. The majority of settlers are armed, and Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem suffer from hundreds of Israeli settler attacks each year, which include shootings, stabbings, arson, beatings, and rock-throwing

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. Instead of taking preventive action, the Israeli authorities aid and abet the settlers

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. The government’s relative inaction on settler violence reinforces the notion that “settler violence is state violence,” says Dror Sadot, a spokesperson for the organization