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More than 100 soldiers and commanders from the Givati Brigade’s Tzabar Battalion laid down their weapons and left the Sde Teiman military base without authorization following a confrontation with their battalion commander, Israeli media reported. Sde Teiman is the notorious military detention and torture site where Israel has held Palestinians seized en masse from Gaza, including men and boys rounded up during military raids, without charge or access to lawyers. Former detainees, whistleblowers and rights groups have documented severe beatings, systematic rape and sexual abuse, and other forms of torture there. The soldiers reportedly abandoned their weapons and equipment before heading home. The Israeli military said disciplinary action would follow.

"They think they're above the law. And nobody is going to stop them." Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have surged past 1,200 so far this year, at an average of six a day. Arson has become one of the most common tactics, with mosques, homes, and cars set on fire nearly daily. Drop Site's @maysamustafa spoke with Maisoon Ali in the village of Deir Dibwan, who has survived repeated settler attacks, including one where settlers tried to burn her home down while she and her husband were inside. Ali says she has no one to turn to. Not the Palestinian Authority, which has no jurisdiction in Area C, and not the Israeli military, which she says protects the settlers instead. Her only recourse is the country on her second passport, the U.S. — the same one whose weapons are being used against her. This week alone, at least 6 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank amid settler violence, 4 of them on Friday in a settler raid on the town of Tell near Nablus. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, that brings the toll since the start of the year to 86 Palestinians killed by Israelis across the West Bank, more than 20 of whom were shot by settlers.