A series of shootings that left six dead and two communities divided is part of a spasm of violence
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https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/in-west-bank-israeli-settlers-step-up-attacks-against-palestinians-8104fcf4 An Israeli settler community near the Palestinian village of Qusra, where four men were shot and killed.Photographs by Tanya Habjouqa/NOOR Images for The Wall Street JournalQUSRA, West Bank—On the morning of Oct. 12, Hani Odeh was considering a problem: how to get the bodies of four Palestinians shot dead during an attack by Israeli settlers to the cemetery in Qusra, where he is mayor.
The four men had been killed the day before. Israeli police are still investigating the circumstances of the deaths, which came afterof over 1,400 people a few days earlier, and the Israeli military had instructed the mayor to change the route of the cortege from the hospital to avoid inflaming the situation further. Odeh, smoking cigarettes in his office, the customary portrait of Yasser Arafat hanging above his desk, said he complied.
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