Reports: Settlers spray graffiti at school near Nablus; teenager assaulted in nearby village

By Nurit Yohanan

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23 March 2026, 7:19 pm

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

Graffiti daubed by Jewish settlers that reads, "A good Arab is a dead Arab" stains the walls of the Palestinian Huwara Secondary School, where an Israeli flag reportedly placed on the school's roof by Israeli settlers was removed and the Palestinian flag restored by the school in Huwara, south of the city of Nablus in the West Bank on March 23, 2026.(Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Palestinian media outlets report that settlers entered a school earlier today in the northern West Bank village of Huwara and sprayed graffiti on the walls.

Among the Hebrew slogans written there were “Revenge” and “A good Arab is a dead Arab.”

Footage from the incident appears to show two individuals entering the school, hanging an Israeli flag at the entrance, spraying graffiti, and then leaving the scene. The school later removed the flag and restored a Palestinian one

Palestinian media also reports that a 16-year-old boy from the village of Deir al-Hatab was assaulted by settlers and treated by the Red Crescent.

Israeli settlers stormed the town of Huwara in Nablus in the West Bank today, raised an Israeli flag and drew a Star of David on the town’s elementary school.

If a Palestinian tried to do this to an Israeli school, he would be shot on the spot before even reaching the door. pic.twitter.com/IQDTIzyhzE

— Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) March 23, 2026