New footage shows settlers slaughtering sheep during attack on Palestinian village

By Nurit Yohanan

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31 October 2025, 4:50 pm

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Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent

Footage shows a masked settler attacking sheep during an attack on a Palestinian hamlet in the South Hebron Hills on October 28, 2025. (Social media/X: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

The Times of Israel has obtained new footage of a settler attack earlier this week on a Palestinian hamlet in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank, with the clip showing the brutal slaughter of sheep belonging to one of the residents.

The livestock belonged to Mahmoud Drameen, who identified the masked men as local settlers in a complaint filed to Israel Police on Wednesday. The complaint also included graphic security camera footage documenting the attack, which also caught the masked men smashing the windows of his car.

Drameen said a total of 10 sheep were killed or seriously injured, and some had their eyes gouged out.

No suspects have been arrested to date.

While livestock have been targeted in such attacks before, the gruesome nature of the footage points to an apparent escalation in settler violence, which has been taking place on a near-daily basis with overwhelming impunity from Israeli prosecution.

Recent attacks have even featured ATVs that far-right ministers of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government have boasted of providing to settlers in illegal outposts that have mushroomed across the West Bank over the last two years.