Israeli Settlers Torch Palestinian Land As West Bank Burns

 

Dozens of Israeli settlers launched coordinated arson attacks across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, torching a Palestinian warehouse, a Bedouin village, and farmland near Tulkarm. Several Palestinians were injured in what officials described as part of a surge in settler violence timed to the annual olive harvest.

 

Footage showed masked men setting lorries ablaze in Beit Lid and tents burning in Deir Sharaf as women screamed in the background. Palestinian Authority Minister Muayyad Shaaban called it a campaign of “terror and intimidation.” The Israel Defense Forces said they intervened, arrested several settlers, and were then attacked themselves by others nearby.

 

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and the IDF’s Central Command chief, Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, condemned the violence as “anarchist” and destabilizing, vowing to hold perpetrators accountable. Yet rights groups note that impunity remains the norm: Yesh Din reports that 94% of police probes into settler crimes against Palestinians end with no charges.

 

The UN says settler attacks hit record levels in October—averaging eight incidents a day—and that violence tied to the olive harvest has reached its worst point in decades. Over 4,200 trees have been vandalized this season alone, with 1,500 settler assaults recorded since January.

 

The attacks come as pro-settler Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich accelerates plans to legalize outposts and expand settlements, openly pledging to “de facto annex” the West Bank and block any future Palestinian state. Israel has built around 160 settlements housing 700,000 Jews since capturing the territory in 1967—settlements deemed illegal under international law.

 

Key Takeaways:

• Settlers burned Palestinian property and farmland amid record West Bank violence.

• Israeli leaders condemned the attacks, but convictions for settler crimes remain rare.

• UN warns of impunity as Smotrich drives rapid expansion and de facto annexation.

 

Source: BBC

 

 

 

 

 

 

7 minutes ago, Social Media said:

The UN says settler attacks hit record levels in October—averaging eight incidents a day

I had a feeling that once Israel got all their hostages back that they would not honor the peace deal.

 

Probably only effective thing the Palestinians can do now to fight back is to take more new hostages.

 

I just saw the Israelis are now blocking syringe supplies from aid agencies getting through so the Palestinians can not vaccine their children.

 

The cruelty has no bounds.

16 minutes ago, Social Media said:

Israeli leaders condemned the attacks, but convictions for settler crimes remain rare.

They pretended to condemn the attacks.

While planning the next attacks.

17 minutes ago, Social Media said:

Settlers burned Palestinian property and farmland amid record West Bank violence.

What would Gaza be like without Hamas?

 

It would be like the West Bank.

The term ‘settlers’ is a euphemism.

11 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

I had a feeling that once Israel got all their hostages back that they would not honor the peace deal.

Probably only effective thing the Palestinians can do now to fight back is to take more new hostages.

I just saw the Israelis are now blocking syringe supplies from aid agencies getting through so the Palestinians can not vaccine their children.The cruelty has no bounds.

 

    The Settlers aren't the Israeli Government .

You need to learnt the difference between the Government and the people 

2 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

    The Settlers aren't the Israeli Government .

You need to learnt the difference between the Government and the people 

You might have missed this part of the article:

 

"The attacks come as pro-settler Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich accelerates plans to legalize outposts and expand settlements, openly pledging to “de facto annex” the West Bank and block any future Palestinian state. Israel has built around 160 settlements housing 700,000 Jews since capturing the territory in 1967—settlements deemed illegal under international law."

15 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

    The Settlers aren't the Israeli Government .

You need to learnt the difference between the Government and the people 

There's very little difference between the extremist settlers, the extremist Orthodoxy, and the extremist members of the Israeli government. You need to learn that. 

11 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

I just saw the Israelis are now blocking syringe supplies from aid agencies getting through so the Palestinians can not vaccine their children.

Except you didn't see that did you, you saw reports, from sources you are either unable or unprepared to name, let alone confirm,  that they are blocking such supplies.

 

The health service in Israel has a creditable record of treating sick Palestinian children.

39 minutes ago, JAG said:

Except you didn't see that did you, you saw reports, from sources you are either unable or unprepared to name, let alone confirm,  that they are blocking such supplies.

 

The health service in Israel has a creditable record of treating sick Palestinian children.

Sad comment, it's been said by all agencies that Israel is not allowing in enough supplies. 

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

There's very little difference between the extremist settlers, the extremist Orthodoxy, and the extremist members of the Israeli government. You need to learn that. 

 

 There is a huge difference  .

The Israeli Government doesn't control the settlers , the settlers don't take commands/orders from the Government .

   Malcolm suggested that the settlers were under Israel Government orders .

   The Israeli Government condemn the settlers actions 

 

2 hours ago, stevenl said:

Sad comment, it's been said by all agencies that Israel is not allowing in enough supplies. 

Nothing sad about it at all.

What is, to my mind, sad, is the sustained drip drip drip of allegations, often exaggerated, often completely unconfirmed, that Israel is somehow complicit in attempting to destroy the Palestinian people, who themselves have continuously supported, and enthusiastically joined, for over half a century now, organisations which claim to be the leader of that (putative) nation, and whose first proclaimed intention, backed on regular occasions by murder and terrorism, is to destroy Israel and to slaughter it's inhabitants.

 

Those organisations, Hamas and the PLO won elections in 2006 and set up governments in Gaza and The West Bank respectively. No elections have been held since, but they maintain their claim to govern those lands. Hezbollah doesn't even give lip service to elections they have de facto taken over Lebanon, and simply kill anyone who gets in their way. Meanwhile Israel continues to hold regular elections, in which both Jewish and non Jewish citizens take part. I don't much like the government which (currently) has resulted but at least it was selected by voting not by having bigger militias, more guns, and being more savage and ruthless than their rivals. Nor have they celebrated and consolidated their accession to power by killing off their rivals.

 

That is what is sad about that part of the Middle East. Terrorist mini states seeking to destroy and eliminate non Muslim communities - what has happened to the Christians in Lebanon? What do they plan and boast of intending to do to the Jews in Israel? Both communities, societies and religious identities which existed for centuries before Islam spread by conquest.

34 minutes ago, JAG said:

Nothing sad about it at all.

 

I find it extremely saddening when someone, in this case you, denies reports by all aid organisations; and follows it up with off topic deflections.

1 hour ago, JAG said:

Terrorist mini states seeking to destroy and eliminate non Muslim communities

From what I have seen lately the Israelis are killing the Muslim communities.

I think you are out of touch.

2 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

The Israeli Government doesn't control the settlers , the settlers don't take commands/orders from the Government .

But they control,the Gazans.

Because it suits them. 
The settlers are protected by the IDF.

The settlers do what they do because they can get away with it.

 

5 hours ago, Wingate said:

You might have missed this part of the article:

 

"The attacks come as pro-settler Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich accelerates plans to legalize outposts and expand settlements, openly pledging to “de facto annex” the West Bank and block any future Palestinian state. Israel has built around 160 settlements housing 700,000 Jews since capturing the territory in 1967—settlements deemed illegal under international law."

He didn’t miss it.

He just ignored it as it doesn’t suit his tired narrative.

5 hours ago, Wingate said:

You might have missed this part of the article:

 

"The attacks come as pro-settler Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich accelerates plans to legalize outposts and expand settlements, openly pledging to “de facto annex” the West Bank and block any future Palestinian state. Israel has built around 160 settlements housing 700,000 Jews since capturing the territory in 1967—settlements deemed illegal under international law."

 

   No, I didn't miss that .

The above doesn't show that the settlers actions ordered by the Government .

   The Government isn't responsible for the settlers actions and the above doesn't suggest otherwise 

5 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The term ‘settlers’ is a euphemism.

 

Murderous, blood-thirsty robber is more apt.

16 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

 

Probably only effective thing the Palestinians can do now to fight back is to take more new hostages.

 

 

   More war crimes and killing innocent civilians ?

Are you suggesting that they should commit MORE war crimes ?

3 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   More war crimes and killing innocent civilians ?

Are you suggesting that they should commit MORE war crimes ?

No killing. 
Taking hostages is not killing.

And take a few soldiers or ex soldiers, not innocent civilians.

 

4 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

No killing. 
Taking hostages is not killing.

And take a few soldiers or ex soldiers, not innocent civilians.

 

 

   Didn't go too well the last time they did that 

 

Israel was the biggest mistake of the 1940s. 😞 

3 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

 There is a huge difference  .

The Israeli Government doesn't control the settlers , the settlers don't take commands/orders from the Government .

   Malcolm suggested that the settlers were under Israel Government orders .

   The Israeli Government condemn the settlers actions 

 

Correct, when the ‘settlers’ murder Palestinians the Israeli Government does nothing about it.

Some unattributed and inflammatory posts have been removed, tone it down please @MalcolmB

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Correct, when the ‘settlers’ murder Palestinians the Israeli Government does nothing about it.

 

    The settlers in this story have been arrested 

3 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

    The settlers in this story have been arrested 

They’ll be released once the brouhaha has died down. 

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Correct, when the ‘settlers’ murder Palestinians the Israeli Government does nothing about it.

 

   When a Palestinian murders an Israel , the Palestine government finically awards the killers , pays them handsomely .

   Thats the environment where it happens 

2 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   When a Palestinian murders an Israel , the Palestine government finically awards the killers , pays them handsomely .

   Thats the environment where it happens 

 

Do you have any proof of this?

 

What is the going rate for a murdered Israeli?

5 minutes ago, Jeff the Chef said:

 

Do you have any proof of this?

 

What is the going rate for a murdered Israeli?

 

   Its frequently in the news , but I suppose Al-Jazeera never mention it, so, you wouldn't have herd bout it 

   Do  websearch for :   hamas pay for slay

 

 

"These “pay-to-slay” policies incentivize acts of terrorism and are often directly proportional to the number of individuals injured or killed during the attack.."

9 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Its frequently in the news , but I suppose Al-Jazeera never mention it, so, you wouldn't have herd bout it 

   Do  websearch for :   hamas pay for slay

 

 

"These “pay-to-slay” policies incentivize acts of terrorism and are often directly proportional to the number of individuals injured or killed during the attack.."

 

I ask 2 questions and then you want me to search for an answer, so do I take it you yet again have no proof of your previous statement, which was, "When a Palestinian murders an Israel , the Palestine government finically awards the killers , pays them handsomely ."