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The BBC documented a week of escalating Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and the UK separately raised with Israel the case of British student activist Finn Joughin, 22, who was detained by settlers after being arrested in a Palestinian village. Israeli forces reportedly shot dead two Palestinians after entering a village to search for missing pets, further inflaming tensions in the area. The United States issued a harsher public censure of the West Bank violence, urging legal action against perpetrators, though it stopped short of explicitly blaming Israel or using the word 'settler.' President Isaac Herzog told CNN that Israel is making a 'major effort' to curb settler violence, as international scrutiny of the situation continues to grow.