Diplomat recalls ‘violent attack’ by Israeli settlers in West Bank

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International condemnation, including now from the US, but little concrete action from the outside world as violent Israeli settlers step up their attacks to steal even more Palestinian land in the West Bank. The violent campaign by illegal Israeli settlers to steal Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank has surged in recent days with Palestinian farmers being targeted and their olive trees burned. The settler attacks have now provoked more intense international condemnation after visiting European diplomats and activists say they were targeted on Saturday.

The attacks come nine days before elections take place in Israel. Warning: this report contains disturbing images. Share on Facebook Share Share on Twitter Tweet Share on WhatsApp Send Send with Facebook Messenger Send Share via email Email Load more share options Topics West Bank , World

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Channel 4 News runs a short introduction to a video report on settler attacks on Palestinian olive harvesters and on visiting European diplomats in the occupied West Bank. It names the settlers as the attackers, calls the settlements illegal and the territory occupied, and says the attacks aim to take Palestinian land. Nothing in the text misleads the reader.

What it gets right

“The violent campaign by illegal Israeli settlers to steal Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank”
Channel 4 states the settlements' illegality and the occupation as fact, in line with the ICJ's ruling (R1, R2). It does not present them as one side's view.
“violent Israeli settlers step up their attacks to steal even more Palestinian land”
Channel 4 names who is attacking and what the attacks are for. It does not fold the violence into clashes or tensions.
“Palestinian farmers being targeted and their olive trees burned”
Channel 4 puts the Palestinian victims and the harm done to them in the story, in a sentence where the settlers are named as the actors.

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