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Over 100 Jewish settlers violently blocked Israeli security forces from returning the Tubasi family to their home in the West Bank village of Jalud, setting fire to the property and car. The incident, which occurred despite a High Court order, marks the second major attack on the family in a month and highlights a surge in settler violence that has displaced thousands of Palestinians.
Over 100 Israeli settlers violently blocked the return of the Tubasi family to their home in the West Bank village of Jalud, setting fire to their property and attacking security forces. The incident, which occurred despite a recent Israeli High Court order, highlights a surge in settler violence that has displaced thousands of Palestinians. While Israeli leaders condemned the attack, critics and human rights groups argue that the state’s failure to prosecute perpetrators and its expansion of settlements constitute a systematic policy of displacement. The Tubasi family, previously displaced in July, was forced to flee again after settlers overwhelmed the police and military escorting them.
Over 100 Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Jalud, setting fire to homes and preventing the Tubasi family from returning to their property despite a recent court order. The incident highlights a surge in settler violence in the West Bank, with the UN recording over 1,600 attacks this year. While Israeli authorities condemned the violence, critics note that few perpetrators are prosecuted, and the family was forced to evacuate again at gunpoint.
Over 100 Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Jalud, setting fire to homes and preventing the Tubasi family from returning to their property despite a court order. The incident highlights a surge in settler violence in the West Bank, with the UN recording over 1,600 attacks this year. While Israeli authorities condemned the violence, critics note that few perpetrators are prosecuted, and the family was forced to evacuate again at gunpoint.
Palestinian families in al-Mughayyir fear for their children on the first day of the new school year as settler attacks near the village school rise, with barbed-wire fencing, ambulances outside, and soldiers nearby; several youths have been killed this year. A UN inquiry says settlers have instrumentalized children in their broader campaign, while Israel says it responds to violent provocations and not to the entire settlement movement.
The U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, denounced a rising tide of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, calling the assailants terrorists during a rare town hall with Palestinian Americans in Turmus Aya amid international backlash.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Palestinians will leave Gaza as a condition for any lasting solution, claiming most Gazans want to migrate and that moving them would require international support—especially US backing. He noted Egypt’s lack of willingness to cooperate and said Israel is prepared to relocate people by sea or air if feasible, tying the plan to Hamas’s commitments and broader regional dynamics.
Israel’s defence minister Israel Katz said depopulating Gaza remains the “only solution,” claiming the Trump-era plan to relocate Palestinians has been frozen by the United States; rights advocates label the idea ethnic cleansing. He suggests the plan could still proceed with U.S. support, while Egypt refuses to take Palestinian refugees and aid and reconstruction in Gaza remain restricted amid ongoing conflict.
An NBC News team covering a Palestinian family in Jalud near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank was assaulted by masked Israeli settlers. A gray car with Israeli plates backed toward the crew, who were struck with sticks and rocks; four NBC staff were injured, with correspondent Matt Bradley treated and a Palestinian woman, Aida Abdullah, hospitalized. Israeli security forces said rioters were involved and worked to remove them from a Palestinian home; Prime Minister Netanyahu condemned the violence as the incident drew international attention to West Bank clashes.
Ziva Sharp and about 30 fellow activists, many of them religious Jews, travel from Jerusalem to the West Bank to protect Palestinian families from violent settlers, forming the Bnei Avraham movement. Their actions highlight a faith-led effort within Judaism to promote compassion and justice, even as clashes and intimidation unfold amid ongoing settlement tensions.
In the West Bank a Palestinian teenager was killed in a clash with Israeli settlers, with rights group Yesh Din warning that settler violence is moving from rural areas into larger Palestinian cities as settlement expansion continues; about 3 million Palestinians live under Israeli military rule in the West Bank alongside around 560,000 Israeli settlers, highlighting the escalating and long-running conflict.
Israel’s far-right security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir posted a video of a gallows construction intended to execute Palestinians convicted of terror under a newly enacted military-courts death-penalty law, a move critics say targets Palestinians and undermines due-process safeguards; international actors including the UN, UK, France and Germany condemned his rhetoric, while Israel pushes the policy amid other controversial measures like settlement expansion.
A taped interview with Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s far-right National Security Minister, features him calling for killing 30–40 Palestinians in Gaza each night and urging mass emigration of Gaza residents, arguing Gaza should be treated as Israeli territory; the remarks—condemned by many and cited as genocidal by some—come as Gaza casualties exceed 100,000 and Ben-Gvir’s security-power influence grows, despite not commanding strikes, amid Israel’s election season.
Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir told a podcast that Israeli forces should kill 30–40 Palestinians in Gaza each night and push for a permanent exodus, arguing for broader lethal action beyond those posing an immediate threat. Though he sits on Israel’s security cabinet and influences policy, he cannot order military strikes. The remarks, part of a long pattern of hardline rhetoric, drew international criticism and sanctions while casualties in Gaza continued to rise past 1,250 since the October ceasefire.
Activists tried to deliver water and food to Palestinian families trapped in homes in Qusra, West Bank, after settlers blocked access and the area was declared a closed military zone; direct delivery to residents was blocked, with aid left outside, while Israeli forces and settlers clashed and tents were set up and removed. The broader context includes ongoing settler violence and displacement in the area, highlighted by UN displacement figures.