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Warren blames Trump publicly for worsening settler violence in the West Bank
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Senator Elizabeth Warren took the Democrats' settler-sanctions case into the open on Monday night, writing on X that Donald Trump lifted sanctions against Israeli settlers "who are seizing homes in the West Bank" — and drawing the line herself: "Now, the violence is worse, and even more Palestinians — and four Americans — have been killed by settlers and security forces."
"This is deeply wrong," she added. "These families deserve justice." The post passed 150,000 views within its first day.
Warren attached the Guardian's report on the letter she and Senator Chris Van Hollen led to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
That letter, which this paper covered on Sunday, demands the administration restore the settler sanctions it scrapped in the president's first days in office and open independent investigations into the deaths of nine American citizens killed in the occupied West Bank since January 2022.
The Guardian's account adds a clock the letter itself set: answers by August 17 on the investigations, on the lifting of sanctions, and on the treatment of American citizens detained by Israel.
The Americans named in the reporting around the letter include Saifullah Musallet, beaten to death by settlers near Sinjil in July 2025; Khamis Ayyad, a 40-year-old father of five who died of smoke inhalation after settlers set fires in Silwad; and Nasrallah Abu Siyam, 19, born in Philadelphia.
The post moves the argument from correspondence into the midterm campaign's open air, with the administration yet to answer publicly. The deadline the lawmakers set expires on August 17.
