Footage shows settler infiltration of West Bank Bedouin village

Young settlers are filmed infiltrating a Bedouin hamlet on the outskirts of the central West Bank village of Taybeh.

In one clip taken by prominent Israeli civil rights activist Rabbi Arik Ascherman, a settler is seen grazing his livestock through the yard of a Palestinian family’s home.

4 th time in two days breaking down fences and invading brave family's home pic.twitter.com/AsRh3DrrfE

— Rabbi Arik Ascherman (@RavArik) August 7, 2026

In another clip, a settler is seen roaming through the hamlet. Ascherman says the settlers tore down the fence that Palestinians put up to try to prevent such infiltrations.

פעם רביעית ביומיים אצל משפחה אמיצה בטייבה pic.twitter.com/yEVkcJi1iv

— Rabbi Arik Ascherman (@RavArik) August 7, 2026

Ascherman says the settlers have infiltrated the hamlet four times in the last two days alone.

Yesterday, a settler child was filmed repeatedly punching an Israeli rights activist in the head after tearing down the village’s fence.

מתנחל מרביץ למדינה זכויות אדם ובסוף הצליחו להוריד גדרות ולפרוץ למתחם של משפחה פלסטינית. מגיעים פעמיים ביום צ. הערב שעות כוחות לא הגיעו וזה לא חריג pic.twitter.com/l2QhmKVM9E

— Rabbi Arik Ascherman (@RavArik) August 6, 2026

Such harassment takes place on a near-daily basis, with the goal of making the lives of the Bedouin intolerable. The strategy has led to the displacement of several thousand West Bank Palestinians from areas under full Israeli control since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught. It is part of a string of near-daily settler violence that frequently goes unprosecuted.