Marco Rubio urges Israel on West Bank violence
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Washington wants Israel to do more to stop settler violence in the occupied West Bank, stating that the U.S. is very disturbed by recent attacks
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My colleague, Kylie Levine, was attacked there yesterday. I saw that. We're very disturbed by those images and what we're seeing. We've asked the Israelis and continue to ask them to crack down on that stuff. The president's been very clear. He said this repeatedly. He does not want to see friction or anything, a crisis going on in the West Bank. Now, I understand that these are groups that are out there doing it, and the president's been repeatedly clear when he said that he doesn't want to see that. He doesn't want to see a new spark. Well, we saw the reports about what happened yesterday. I don't have all the details. I only go off media reports. I know we've inquired with the embassy. We're supposed to get a cable back later today or tomorrow indicating exactly what they know about it. But from what I understand about media reports, it didn't look good. You know, it was an American reporter, it was maybe a photo, a journalist, who was caught behind where some of these groups came in and was beaten, and there was video of that. So the whole thing was just disturbing. Not a good look.
