A Palestinian man stands subsequent to a broken automobile, following an Israeli settlers’ assault, in Taybeh close to Ramallah, within the Israeli-occupied West Bank, July 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters
Jeries Azar, a Taybeh resident and journalist for Palestine TV, instructed AFP his home and automobile had been focused within the pre-dawn assault.
“I looked outside and saw my car on fire, and they were throwing something at the vehicle and in the direction of the house,” Azar stated.
The Palestinian Authority issued a press release blaming “Israeli colonial settlers” for the assault on Taybeh.
Azar stated he was terrified and put himself within the sneakers of the Dawabsheh household, a pair who burned to loss of life with their child after settlers attacked their West Bank village of Duma in 2015.
“My greatest fear was for my two-year-old son. After we escaped, he cried nonstop for an hour”, Azar stated, including that the Israeli military had surveyed the realm after the assault.
Israeli police and the army stated in a joint assertion {that a} unit was dispatched to Taybeh and reported “two burned Palestinian vehicles and graffiti”.
The assertion stated that no suspects had been apprehended however that Israeli police have launched an investigation.
A photograph shared by a Palestinian authorities company on social media confirmed graffiti on a Taybeh wall that learn: “Al-Mughayyir, you will regret”, referring to a close-by village that was additionally attacked by settlers earlier this yr.
The Palestinian Authority’s overseas ministry condemned the assault, calling it “settler terrorism”.
Germany’s ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert, additionally condemned the motion, writing on X: “These extremist settlers may claim that God gave them the land. But they are nothing but criminals abhorrent to any faith”.
Taybeh and its environment have skilled a number of bouts of settler violence in current months, together with an arson assault at an historic Byzantine church.
The village — residence to about 1,300 largely Christian Palestinians, many holding US twin citizenship — is understood for its brewery, the oldest within the Palestinian territories.
Settlers have attacked neighbouring communities in current months, leading to three deaths, harm to Palestinian water wells and the displacement of at the very least one rural herding neighborhood.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967. The territory is residence to about three million Palestinians and round 700,000 Israeli settlers, together with about 200,000 in east Jerusalem.
Last week, 71 members of Israel’s 120-seat parliament, or Knesset, handed a movement calling on the federal government to annex the West Bank.
Published – July 28, 2025 11:12 pm IST
