‘No accountability for settler war crimes against Palestinians’

What we're seeing now is not new in the West Bank, but it is a major escalation. And one aspect of it is we're seeing an increase in direct war crimes. In this particular case in the village of Tel, it's up in the north near Nablus, the settlers were the first group to attack the village. Four Palestinians were killed. Two Israelis, a soldier and a settler, died in the course of that incident as well. But what I think is very clear here is that whenever there is any kind of an incident like this, the response by the Israeli military and the settlers is to punish all the Palestinians. There is no accountability for Israeli settlers. And I think it's also important that we recognize that the distinction between settlers and the military, settlers and the IDF, settlers and the soldiers, these are false distinctions. Some of the settlers are themselves part of the Israeli military. They serve in the reserves. They are armed by the military. Many are trained by the military. They're all using U.S.-provided arms. So this distinction is not a very important one. They are all supported by the Israeli state. And what we're seeing here is a decision that they make to deliberately commit war crimes. So we're seeing collective punishment. That's one war crime of a massive number of Palestinians. We're seeing attacks on hospitals where Palestinians, the hospital in Nablus and others, were attacked. And patients, as well as doctors and other staff, were detained, were bound. It's terrifying for patients and their families.