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More than 11,000 Israelis have donated almost £400,000 to help support victims of the rampage by Israeli settlers in Huwara.

The online campaign was launched by Labor party member Yaya Fink the morning after the attacks.

“As a religious person, as a Zionist, as a Christian, as a human being, I cannot remain silent when my people, with the support of elected o cials, burn villages,” Fink said. He referred to comments made by Jewish Power party lawmaker Zvika Foighel, who said he “looked favourably upon” the terror attacks committed in Huwara.

Hillel Yaniv, 22, and Yagel Yaniv, and fleeing on foot to Jericho. The IDF is still searching for the suspects.

Ganeles grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut in the United States before but emigrating to Israel, where he joined the army as a ‘lone soldier’. In 2018, he returned to the USA to study for a degree at Columbia University in New York.

Eight Palestinians have been arrested since, but none of them is believed to have carried out any of the two deadly terrorist attacks.

National security minister

Itamar Ben-Gvir said the only proper way to respond to the attacks was to rebuild an evacuated, illegal settlement outpost known as Evyatar in the northern West Bank.

His call came after a large group of settlers were forcibly removed from Evyatar by Israeli security forces. The group had gathered to

Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich liked this tweet (later deleted) by Samaria Council deputy head Davidi Ben Zion: ‘The village of Hawara should be erased today... there is no room for mercy’ reclaim the outpost in response to the killing of Hallel and Yagel.

“I want to see that place burn. Metaphorically,” Foighel, who chairs the Knesset National Security Committee, said the morning after the attacks, causing the opposition leader to call for Foighel to be jailed for inciting terrorism.

The UK ambassador to Israel, Neil Wigan, condemned the killing of the two Israelis while calling on Israel to “tackle settler violence, with those responsible brought to justice”.

The British consulate in Jerusalem issued a strong-worded condemnation of the attacks, saying it was “horrified” by the scenes of settler violence, urging Israel to “hold perpetrators of this dreadful crime to account.”

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