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Katz claims settler rampage through Palestinian village is not terrorism
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Palestinians react as Israeli settlers break into the West Bank village of Duma, where they set several houses on fire, on April 1, 2025. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Defense Minister Israel Katz says he doesn’t consider this week’s latest settler rampage of a Palestinian village to be terror and defends his decision to end the policy of administrative detentions against Jewish Israelis while leaving them in place against Arab Israelis and Palestinians.
“I don’t consider this terror,” Katz tells Army Radio when asked about the Tuesday incident in Duma where some 50 Israelis attacked homes, with three Palestinians reportedly injured as the settlers torched property and assaulted residents.
Katz says those who violated the law and should be prosecuted, but not through the use of “draconian” administrative detentions.
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