Nearly all US Senate Democrats write Netanyahu to demand action on ‘fatal’ settler violence

Letter drafted by Schumer, Schiff and Booker, signed by all but 2 of 47-member caucus, calls for removing illegal outposts and stepping up probes of killings of US citizens

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US Senate Democrats on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rein in a “surge” of violence by West Bank settlers as well as mass arrests of Palestinians by Israeli security forces in the territory.

In the letter to Netanyahu, seen by Reuters and signed by 45 of the Senate’s 47-member Democratic caucus, the lawmakers noted increasing levels of “fatal violence by settlers.”