The Israeli government blames the violence on a ‘handful’ of extremists. Yet settlers have established 30 outposts in Area B, where the Palestinian Authority oversees civilian affairs, encouraged by elected officials and unchallenged by security forces

A few years ago, F. and his family moved away from the village of Qusra in the West Bank. Their previous home was on the border of the West Bank’s Area C, which is under exclusive Israeli control, and they were tired of being harassed by settlers.