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Sunday, December 28, 2025
Cars set on fire, threats spray-painted in separate attacks on West Bank Palestinians
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Suspected settler vandals set fire to two cars and left a threatening message outside a home in the Palestinian village of Huwara near Nablus in the northern West Bank overnight, Palestinian media report.
Footage from the scene shows a white pickup truck charred on both the inside and outside, and the message “revenge, Beit She’an” with a Star of David spray-painted in black on an adjacent wall.
"طلع ابني لقى النار مولعة بالسيارة".. فلسطيني يروي تفاصيل إحراق المستـ'وطنين مركبة وخطّ شعارات عنصرية على منزل في قرية حوارة جنوب نابلس. pic.twitter.com/h7CXMj6urB
— فلسطين بوست (@PalpostN) December 28, 2025
The graffiti appears to be a reference to a terror attack on Friday in which a Palestinian man killed two people and injured a third in a series of car-rammings and a stabbing in Beit She’an and other locations.
Separately, settlers set fire overnight to a car and graffitied threatening messages on Palestinian property in the village of Jaba, near Bethlehem in the West Bank, according to Palestinian media.
במהלך הלילה פורעים יהודים הציתו רכב בכפר ג׳בעה ליד בית לחם, וריססו גרפיטי "נקמה על הנקמה בעד התיישבות נגד אלימות. אבי בלוט לא מפחדים, לאהוביה סנדק ד"ש מהפיגוע"
(12) pic.twitter.com/eiBL9mtZxp— לירי בורק שביט (@lirishavit) December 28, 2025
Footage from the scene shows a white minivan with its front charred and covered in sand. Spray-painted in red on an adjacent wall was the word “Revenge,” a Star of David, and then “Revenge in support of settlement against violence,” “Avi Bluth we’re not afraid,” and “To Ahuvia Sandak, regards from the terror attack.”
Maj. Gen. Bluth, head of the IDF Central Command, is reviled by extremist settlers who accuse him of being too harsh with Jews and lenient with Palestinians in the West Bank.
Sandak was a 16-year-old member of the extremist Hilltop Youth settler group who was killed in a car crash while fleeing Israeli cops in the West Bank after allegedly hurling stones at Palestinians in December 2020. On Saturday, protesters held a demonstration to mark five years since his death.
Police have launched an investigation into the incident in Huwara, Hebrew media reports. It’s unclear if police have launched a similar investigation into the incident in Jaba.
The Times of Israel Community.