West Bank Violence Escalates as Israelis and Palestinians Clash.

Thousands of Israelis, including at least seven Cabinet ministers, marched to an evacuated West Bank settlement in a defiant signal that Israel’s most right-wing government in history is determined to accelerate settlement building on occupied lands despite international opposition. The mass rally also threatened to further raise tensions that have been heightened by days of unrest across the region over a contested Jerusalem holy site. In new violence, Israeli troops killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank and a 48-year-old Israeli woman died of wounds sustained in an attack last week that killed two of her daughters.