The UK foreign secretary has condemned an attack by Israeli settlers on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank that left one person dead.
Israeli settlers opened fire on residents of the village of Jit on Thursday night, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.Residents report at least 100 masked figures burning homes and cars as well as shooting live ammunition.David Lammy, who on Thursday jetted to Israel and Palestine with his French counterpart, Stéphane Séjourné in a bid to calm tensions in the region, called the attack “abhorrent”.
“We literally wish them success because nothing is needed now more than stopping this carnage, this madness.“And if it’s not stopped now, after all the sheer suffering, all that happened over the course of 11 months, and ... stopping a regional war that I believe Netanyahu was instigating, if it doesn’t happen, then we are into a new arena that will be a lose-lose for everybody. So let’s hope, let’s pray, let’s work together that later today we will hear good news.
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