Negotiations resume in Doha to try to stop the war in the Gaza Strip. The goal is to reach a truce, avoid Iranian retaliation and allow aid to pass to the population. Negotiations resume today, after mediators from Qatar, Egypt and the United States called yesterday “constructive.”
And they resume after the The US also condemned the bloody attack by settlers in the West Bank which left one dead and one seriously injured. An attack that sparked outrage from the White House and also from Israeli leaders. The episode took place in the village of Jit. A 23-year-old Palestinian lost his life. The US defined the incident as “unacceptable violence” and President Isaac Herzog went so far as to denounce a pogrom.
“Violent settler attacks on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank are unacceptable and must stop,” the U.S. National Security Council spokesperson said in a statement to The Times of Israel. “Israeli authorities must take measures to protect all communities. This includes taking timely action to stop the violence and hold all perpetrators accountable.”
“I strongly condemn the pogrom in Samaria,” Herzog wrote in a message on X, using the name of the biblical province corresponding to the northern West Bank. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement released by his office, assured that “those responsible for any criminal acts will be arrested and prosecuted.”