Settlers Burn Vehicles and Scrawl Threats in the West Bank

Israeli settlers burned Palestinian vehicles, scrawled threats on house walls, and attacked property, in a series of attacks they carried out at dawn on Sunday, in scattered areas of the occupied West Bank.

Local sources reported that settlers attacked two homes in the town of Hawara south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, burned two vehicles belonging to Palestinian citizens, in addition to writing threatening slogans on the walls of the homes.

In the village of Al-Jaba west of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, the official Palestinian News Agency reported that settlers burned a vehicle belonging to the citizen Rizq Muhammad Musa Abu Luha, and scrawled hostile slogans on the walls of one of the houses in the village.

In a related context, it reported that a group of settlers stormed the town of Turmus Ayya northeast of Ramallah in the central West Bank, and attacked citizens' property, where they proceeded to remove and steal doors from homes under construction.

According to data from the Palestinian Anti-Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission (governmental) for the month of November/Tishrei last, settlers carried out 621 attacks in the West Bank against Palestinians and their property.

The United Nations confirms that settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories is illegal, undermines the possibility of implementing the two-state solution; Palestinian and Israeli, and has been calling for decades to stop it without success.

According to official Palestinian reports, the number of settlers in the West Bank reached about 770 thousand at the end of 2024, distributed over more than 180 settlements and 256 settlement outposts.