Dozens of Israeli settlers launch arson attack in West Bank as attacks against Palestinians surge
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/middleeast/west-bank-settler-violence-arson-latam-intl
Dozens of Israeli settlers launched an arson attack on an agricultural area in the occupied West Bank Tuesday evening, according to Palestinian activists in the area, marking the latest such attack in what has been a surge of settler violence.
The attack took place in the town of Beit Lid east of Tulkarm, damaging the Deir Sharaf Bedouin village and Al-Juneidi dairy factory, videos show and residents told CNN.
Footage obtained by CNN shows smoke engulfing the area, with Palestinian women heard shouting in the background, and men carrying extinguishers and water buckets scrambling to put out the fires.
Videos show torched trucks, tents and metal sheds, and smashed car windows. Residents said Palestinian civil defense and firefighters arrived at the scene about an hour after the fires started. Another video filmed by a Palestinian resident shows the settlers coming down a hill toward the Bedouin village.
This attack is the latest in a surge of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, which have been taking place on a near-daily basis since mid-October. A United Nations report released Friday alleges that Israeli settlers launched at least 264 attacks in October, the largest number since the UN began tracking incidents in 2006, with this year’s olive harvest season marred by extreme violence.
CCTV footage of the arson attack obtained by CNN then shows the settlers attacking the dairy factory, brandishing clubs and setting fire to parked vehicles. One of the vehicles – a cargo truck bearing the dairy factory’s logo – appears to be completely torched, with a thick cloud of black smoke rising from it.
Finally reported by CNN but trying to put the blame on 'fringe youth' ?!
‘Anarchist fringe youth’
A senior official from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) condemned the violence. “The reality in which anarchist fringe youth act violently against innocent civilians and against security forces is unacceptable and is extremely serious,” Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth said in a statement shared by the IDF on Wednesday. “It must be dealt with firmly.”
He continued it was unacceptable for “lawbreakers” to “harm property and innocent civilians” while diverting the IDF’s focus “away from its mission of security and counterterrorism.”
Gilad Kariv, an Israeli lawmaker from the left-wing Democrats party, decried the settler attack on X. “Their goal is to ignite a third intifada, that will bring the IDF to operate in a way reminiscent of the operation in Gaza. This move will cost the lives of hundreds of Israel soldiers and civilians and thousands of Palestinians,” he said.
Foreshadowing?
The IDF said it dispatched its soldiers to the area following “a report of dozens of masked Israeli civilians who attacked Palestinians and set fire to property in the area.”
“During the incident, four Palestinians were injured and evacuated for medical treatment. Security forces operated to disperse the confrontation using riot dispersal means and apprehended several Israeli civilians,” the IDF said in a statement. The settlers also attacked the soldiers and damaged an Israeli military vehicle, the IDF said.
Yeah apprehended for attacking the IDF.
The article goes on for a lot longer then all the way at the bottom of the article, last line after a commercial:
Ben Ari told CNN the soldiers who arrived at the scene did not stop the attack, an accusation many Palestinians and activists have voiced in other incidents as well.
And the blowback
At least one killed and three injured after attack at West Bank junction
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/middleeast/west-bank-vehicle-ramming-attack-intl
At least one person was killed and three injured after an attack at a junction in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, according to Israeli emergency services.
The people were attacked in a vehicle ramming and stabbing incident at Gush Etzion Junction, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
The person killed was a man who died at the scene from a “severe stab wound,” according to Elad Pas, a paramedic with Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s emergency response service.Of those injured, one is a woman in serious condition, Pas said. A man and a teenage boy are also in moderate condition, according to the paramedic.
Two “terrorists” were “eliminated” by IDF soldiers at the scene of the attack, the military said.
Err doesn't that mean 3 were killed? 1+2 = 3?
“Several explosive materials were found in the vehicle used by the terrorists, and are currently being neutralized by Israel Border Police bomb disposal specialists,” it wrote in a statement.
Why would you ram a car then go on to stabbing people while transporting explosives? Claims simply to justify the "terrorist" label.
Desperate people committing suicide by IDF is what it is. And truly desperate as they know the IDF will come demolish their homes, arrest and displace their family members. People with nothing left to live for.
