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Senior IDF generals visit West Bank village of Jit following settler rampage
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
The chief of the IDF Central Command, Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth and the head of the Civil Administration, Brig. Gen. Hisham Ibrahim, visited the West Bank village of Jit this evening.
The visit comes as part of a military investigation into Thursday’s settler attack in the village, during which more than 100 Israeli assailants set fire to homes and cars, and one Palestinian man was killed.