‘They want revenge. They’re saying, either we die or you die’: West Bank residents fear rising tide of violence

Palestinians in the territory are facing a harsh crackdown from Israeli forces and threats to their lives from settlers

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Mahmoud Abu Latifa cut his nephew’s hair into a shiny black bowl cut and fretted to the soundtrack of cable news describing bombardments of Gaza. “This is all I do: I cut hair and watch the news – it’s making me sick. I want to get rid of this ugly war,” he said.

The previous day, he had decided to get bread from a town that required him to pass close to the nearby Qalandiya checkpoint, a shuttered fortress of watchtowers and charred concrete walls covered in graffiti and murals of Palestinian political figures.

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