The State Department says that Israeli security forces often did not prevent violent attacks by settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and almost never held violent settlers accountable.
: The report says that according to UN monitoring data and also according to the Israeli Shin Bet intelligence agency, there was a significant increase in the number, scale, severity and geographical scope in 2021.
According to the report, the characteristics of the attacks also changed. In prior years, attacks were sporadic and conducted by individuals or small groups of four to five settlers, but attacks in 2021 were conducted by big groups of several dozen settlers “indicating that attacks were likely pre-planned."
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