West Bank's violent settlers part of a new generation fuelled by ideology

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A mass attack by Israeli settlers on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank has intensified scrutiny of a younger, radical settler movement known as the Hilltop Youth. The loosely connected group is described as ideological and responsible for a rise in violence against Palestinians.

A mass attack by Israeli settlers on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank has placed new focus on the emergence of a generation of radicals in the territory. A loosely connected movement of hardline Israeli settlers, most of them young and including school dropouts from outside the West Bank, known as the "Hilltop Youth", is behind the surging violence against Palestinians.