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4. Agreed.
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 02:31 AM
Mar 2023

BTW it was the head of the IDF Central Command, Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs who
made that comment , see :

https://www.timesofisrael.com/settler-extremists-sowing-terror-huwara-riot-was-a-pogrom-top-general-says/

Settler extremists are sowing terror, Huwara riot was a ‘pogrom,’ top general says

Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs, who oversees West Bank, also warns future clashes could end in Israeli fatalities; report says settler violence has doubled under new government

(snip)

“What happened in Huwara was a pogrom carried out by law-breakers,” Fuchs told Channel 12 news in an interview. “We were not ready for a pogrom on the scale of dozens of people with flammable material and the means to set it on fire, heading to 20 or more places — as well as confronting soldiers and commanders and police at the junction — and setting random Palestinian homes and cars on fire.”

“We were not prepared for that many people, how they came, the scale, the force of the violence they used, and the planning they had carried out,” he added.

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