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The IDF has used administrative detention on extremist settlers, and settlers who actually murdered Palestinians have gotten life sentences (eg 2 of the 3 settlers convicted for murdering Mohammed Abu Khdeir got life and the third got 21 years). But most WB Palestinian fatalities were killed while attacking Israelis. It’s trivial to depict Israelis as the bad guys by cropping out Palestinian violence.
Last year’s Huwara pogrom, “the worst attack stemming from Israeli settler violence in the northern West Bank in decades” per Wikipedia, killed one Palestinian, hours after Palestinians had killed two settlers nearby. The IDF arrested 16 settlers, two of whom are still in administrative detention.
“Settlers kill Palestinians with impunity” is a forest which turns out to have no trees when you look for them.
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