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Asked about rising West Bank violence, State Dept. spokesperson says US stands ‘steadfastly’ with Israel
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
Asked whether the US is concerned about rising violence in the West Bank, US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce says the Trump administration “stand[s] steadfastly with Israel.”
“Israel has seen security concerns, and they’re taking actions regarding those security concerns, and we stand with those decisions and what the Israelis choose to do in that framework,” she says, backing intensified Israeli counterterror operations in the northern West Bank that have displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians.
Bruce does not comment on Israeli settler violence, which has continued on a near-daily basis unabated.
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