Nearly 600 former Israeli military, intelligence, and diplomatic officials have written to US President Donald Trump asking him to press Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to crack down on what they call "settler terror" in the occupied West Bank. The letter, published Tuesday by lobby group Commanders for Israel's Security (a Zionist organisation of retired Israeli army colonels, generals, and equivalent-rank officials from agencies including Mossad and Shin Bet), warns that escalating settler violence risks consequences potentially more catastrophic than the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, with severe implications for Israeli and US regional interests. The appeal came as Netanyahu arrived in Washington for a White House meeting with Trump, and followed a weekend of widespread settler attacks across the West Bank sparked by a deadly shootout in the town of Tal in which two Israelis and four Palestinians were killed.