Israeli MP smashes West Bank memorial under army escort

• Tel Aviv begins evicting UN training centre for Palestinians • West Bank settlers attack journalists, activists near Bethlehem RAMALLAH: A far-right Israeli lawmaker took a sledgehammer to a Palestinian memorial in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday while under military escort. Footage circulating on­­line showed Zvi Sukkot, who is also a settler and activist, smashing a monument commemorating “martyrs” in the Pales­ti­nian village of Madama in the northern West Bank, while soldiers stood ne...

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