Chaim Silberstein, a Jewish settler, can see only one response to the Hamas attack of October 7 — expanding the settlements and solidifying Israel’s already tight grip on the occupied West Bank.
“Let us leverage this to strengthen ourselves, grow our communities and deepen our roots in our homeland,” he said in an interview in his home town of Beit El. “That should be our primary answer to this aggression.”
Silberstein is one of about 500,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank, the larger of the two Palestinian territories, which has had a huge upsurge in violence in the weeks since the rampage by Hamas militants through southern Israel sparked war in Gaza.
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