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The Combatants for Peace movement has called on the European Union and the governments of the UK, Canada and Australia to impose personal sanctions on Avi Bluth, commander of the Israeli army’s Central Command, following recent attacks and incidents in the town of Qusra, south of Nablus, in the northern West Bank. The movement said the incidents represented the latest escalation in settler violence against Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank. READ: Aid access hampered by more than 900 obstacles in West Bank: UN The call was made in an urgent letter sent on behalf of the movement by human rights lawyer Eitay Mack. The letter said responsibility for the escalation in settler violence in the occupied West Bank did […]
