The Judea and Samaria community of Shvut Rachel. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Israel should stop building settlements, denying Palestinian development and designating land for exclusive Israeli use that Palestinians seek for a future state, the Middle East peace Quartet recommended on Friday in a an eagerly awaited report. It was released on the same day that an Israeli family was shot at in a drive-by shooting and a stabbing was attempted in Hebron.

The report by the Quartet entities sponsoring the stalled peace process—the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations—said the Israeli policy “is steadily eroding the viability of the two-state solution.”

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