As World Watches Gaza, Violence Fuels Tensions in Occupied West Bank

JERUSALEM - While the world is focused on the war in Gaza, tensions have risen in the occupied West Bank, where 54 Palestinians were killed over the past week in clashes with Israeli troops, arrest raids and attacks by Jewish settlers. U.N. monitors said it was the deadliest week for Palestinians in the territory since at least 2005.

Since Hamas' deadly mass incursion into southern Israel, in which militants kill