Editing Pogrom (section)

=== The Huwara rampage in February 2023 ===
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On 26 February, 2023, violent riots broke out from Israeli settlers in Huwara after two Israelis were shot and killed by  a Palestinian gunman there earlier that afternoon.<ref name="NYT Huwara">{{Cite news |title=Revenge Attacks After Killing of Israeli Settlers Leave West Bank in Turmoil |last=Kingsley |first=Patrick |date=2023-02-27 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/world/middleeast/israel-palestinians-west-bank.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250115222019/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/world/middleeast/israel-palestinians-west-bank.html |archive-date=January 15, 2025 |access-date=2025-03-04 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> The rioters killed one Palestinian, 37-year-old Sameh Aqtash, and wounded dozens, while torching houses and cars.<ref name="WSJ not pog" >{{cite news |last1=Troy |first1=Gil |title=The Huwara Riot Was No 'Pogrom' Anti-Palestinian violence comes from the margins of Israeli society. Anti-Jewish violence comes from the Palestinian mainstream. |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-huwara-riot-was-not-a-pogrom-jews-palestinians-misappropriation-mainstream-margins-russia-95b5dabb |access-date=15 June 2024 |date=3 March 2023}}</ref>

Top Israeli general in the [[West Bank]], [[Yehuda Fuchs]], referred to the Israeli settlers' actions as a "pogrom": "The incident in Hawara was a pogrom carried out by outlaws,"<ref name="CNN WB Pogrom" >{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/01/middleeast/west-bank-smotrich-ned-price-intl/index.html|title=US condemns Israel far right minister's call for Palestinian town 'to be erased'|first1=Hadas |last1=Gold |first2=Richard Allen |last2=Greene |first3=Michael |last3=Schwartz |first4=Jennifer |last4=Hansler |date=1 March 2023 |publisher=CNN}}</ref><ref name="religion news" >{{Cite web|url=https://religionnews.com/2023/03/03/its-a-dangerous-turn-when-a-pogrom-becomes-an-act-of-faith/|title=It's a dangerous turn when a pogrom becomes an act of faith|first=Daoud|last=Kuttab|date=3 March 2023}}</ref> and Prime Minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] condemned "vigilantism".<ref name="NYT Huwara" />

Journalist [[Gideon Levy]] wrote an editorial in ''[[Haaretz]]'' saying that Israel's military had failed to stop the violence stating: "whether out of apathy and complacency, or because they were very deliberately turning a blind eye."<ref>{{Cite news |title=Israeli Settlers’ Hawara Pogrom Was a Preview of Sabra and Chatila 2 |last=Levy |first=Gideon |date=2023-02-28 |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-02-28/ty-article/.highlight/israeli-settlers-hawara-pogrom-was-a-preview-of-sabra-and-chatila-2/00000186-94ae-d3a9-a1cf-b5ff5adb0000 |access-date=2025-03-04 |work=[[Haaretz]]}}</ref> A legal expert said that the rioters could face war crime charges if Israel did not conduct an investigation into the perpetrators.<ref name="MEE - Broken glass in Hawara" >{{cite news |title=Israeli press review: Columnist warns 'Kristallnacht was relived in Huwwara' |url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-kristallnacht-relived-huwwara-press-review |access-date=29 May 2024 |work=Middle East Eye |date=28 February 2023 |language=en}}</ref> 

Jewish American documentary maker [[Simone Zimmerman]] also used the term ''pogrom'' to describe the attacks on Palestinians by Israeli settlers in Hawara in February 2023.<ref name="Zimmerman">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqg0IvUiVWY |date=25 April 2024 |title=Why so many young Jews are turning on Israel - Simone Zimmerman - The Big Picture S4E7 (time stamp: 20:40) |via=YouTube}}</ref> Zimmerman described these attacks as being committed by settlers while the Israeli army stood by and let it happen.<ref name="Zimmerman" />