US EditionSettler Attacks Reportedly Surge on Palestinians in the West Bank
The United Nations reported over 260 settler attacks in October, marking the highest monthly total since 2006 with multiple Palestinian properties torched and civilians injured.
- On Tuesday , dozens of masked Israeli settlers launched an arson attack in the occupied West Bank, damaging Beit Lid, Deir Sharaf and the Al-Juneidi dairy factory and injuring four Palestinians.
- Since mid-October, settler violence has surged during the olive harvest season, with U.N. agencies reporting at least 264 attacks in October, the highest monthly tally recorded.
- The Israel Defense Forces said it dispatched soldiers to the area, security forces used riot dispersal means, and Israeli police arrested four Israeli suspects for questioning.
- Footage obtained by CNN shows a cargo truck bearing the Al-Juneidi dairy factory's logo completely torched with thick black smoke, while Palestinian civil defence arrived about an hour later and the Palestinian Red Crescent treated three people beaten.
- The West Bank hosts 2.7 million Palestinians and around half a million Israeli settlers, while successive Israeli governments have expanded settlements that the United Nations and most countries consider illegal.
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Israel faces mounting crisis over extremist settler attacks across West Bank
On November 11, roughly 100 Israeli extremists carried out one of the largest settler attacks in recent memory, targeting Palestinian factories and farmland in the northern West Bank, between Nablus and Tulkarm. Footage from the scene showed dozens of masked men storming a dairy farm in Beit Lid, smashing machinery and equipment, and setting vehicles ablaze. IDF soldiers who attempted to stop the rioters were also assaulted, and a military vehi…
Several Palestinians were injured in this week's arson attacks.
Surging Israeli settler violence hurts West Bank journalists
Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, November 14, 2025—With settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank spiking, journalists are also facing more frequent and severe attacks. So far in 2025, the Committee to Protect Journalists has documented 11 attack incidents involving at least 23 Palestinian and international journalists by Israeli settlers — some alongside soldiers — compared with one attack on an Israeli journalist in 2024. Two assault…
Israel jolted by ‘shocking’ settler violence
Israeli President Isaac Herzog this week condemned the latest outbreak of settler-instigated violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, decrying a recent arson attack near the city of Tulkarm as “shocking and serious” in some of his most high-profile public statements on the longstanding trend to date. Herzog’s comments come during the seasonal olive harvest that brings Palestinian farmers into their neighboring fields, often setting the st…
Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian warehouse as West Bank attacks surge
The reports of violence inflicted by Israeli settlers come as the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has said that October 2025 was the worst month for settler violence since it began recording in 2006
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