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An Israeli official brushed off on Tuesday the rare U.S. use of the term "terror attack" to condemn the killing of a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank, as two Jewish settlers held as suspects asked a court to release them from police custody. With U.S.-sponsored peacemaking stalled for almost a decade, Washington has watched…
The US State Department's Near East Bureau has 'strongly condemned' a 'terror attack by Israeli extremist settlers', in its first application of the term in the context of settler violence.