Palestinian families surveyed the damage after a group of Jewish settlers stormed the small West Bank town of Huwara
A car lot in Huwara, a small town in the West Bank, that the owner said was set on fire by Israeli rioters., Fatima AbdulKarim and Aaron Boxerman | Photographs by Tanya Habjouqa/NOOR for The Wall Street JournalHUWARA, West Bank—The smell of burning tires hung in the air as father of four Ziad Dmeidi on Wednesday surveyed the damage to his home, which was set ablaze by a group of Jewish settlers that stormed this small West Bank town last weekend. “We’re just glad to be alive,” he said.
The attack by the settlers—which left one Palestinian dead and 390 injured, according to Palestinian health officials—was part of
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