Israeli soldiers are also settlers in West Bank: Al Jazeera investigation
An Al Jazeera investigation reveals how blurred lines between Israeli soldiers and West Bank settlers enable systematic violence, land seizures, and mass displacement.
Israeli settlers carrying out pogroms in the occupied West Bank often also then return dressed in military uniforms to impose orders on Palestinian victims, blurring the lines between violent attackers and security forces Israel claims uphold the law, an Al Jazeera investigation has found.
The incidents captured in the investigation bolster the evidence presented by many Palestinian communities, international and Israeli human rights groups, activists and journalists pointing to institutional Israeli backing for settlers who have attacked, burned and taken over entire villages.
A particularly stark example played out in the village of Tal, southwest of Nablus.