Extremists are carrying out one of the most violent campaigns against Palestinian villages since the U.N. began keeping records.

The resident of Gan Yavne was driving from the Binyamin area toward Jerusalem when he entered the village by mistake. An Israeli citizen who entered what police described as a hostile Palestinian village by mistake in the West Bank was removed from the area on Thursday,

Bezalel Smotrich, who is sanctioned by Australia and the UK, says a controversial new development "definitively buries the idea of a Palestinian state".