US Envoy Calls West Bank Settler Attacks 'Acts of Terror'

US Ambassador Mike Huckabee publicly labeled violent Israeli settlers "terrorists" after visiting Palestinian American residents of Turmus Ayya, following months of settler attacks including arson at homes and a mosque burned in Bazariya. Netanyahu's government, the most religious-nationalist in Israel's history, has expanded settlement construction while rights groups say the military often overlooks settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The unrest highlights ongoing friction over land and sovereignty central to the region's unresolved territorial claims, a tension bound up with the biblical land promises central to Israel's covenant history.