Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee calls West Bank settler attacks 'an act of terror'
He said it in Turmus Ayya, after meeting about 10 Palestinian American residents hit by the attacks.
Ambassador Mike Huckabee called squatters who seize land they don't own criminals. Their crime, he said, "extends beyond a criminal act — it's an act of terror." The embassy cannot investigate crimes itself, he said, but it can press Israel's government to act.
- A week earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the violence the work of a "handful of rioters."
- Israel's Foreign Ministry called the settlers' conduct "a disgrace." Neither statement said whether anyone has been arrested or charged.