Settlers filmed hurling stones at left-wing activist in West Bank; 2nd activist said hit by stone hours later

Footage from the Palestinian village of Mukhmas, north of Jerusalem in the West Bank, shows several masked settlers hurling stones at Palestinians and at activists from left-wing Israeli human rights group Torat Tzedek this afternoon.

Torat Tzedek head Rabbi Arik Ascherman, who is seen in the driver’s seat of a car as the settlers approach, tells The Times of Israel that two of the car windows were shattered but no one was hurt.

Ascherman says he and other activists drove down to Mukhmas to warn of an incoming settler attack after two stick-wielding settlers charged at them near Mukhmas’s barn, away from the village. About six settlers followed the activists and stoned them, he says.

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According to Ascherman, the assailants came from the illegal outpost of Kol Mevaser, one of several settler communities that have encircled Mukhmas over the past few months. It is the same outpost whose inhabitants in October carried out a large-scale attack on Mukhmas — wounding Palestinians and activists, burning cars and olive groves, and stealing livestock — amid a surge in settler violence targeting Palestinians during the olive harvest season, Ascherman says. At the time, it took Israeli security forces two hours to arrive on the scene from the time they were first contacted, says Ascherman.

The outpost has a standing demolition order against it, and Israeli security forces have dismantled it repeatedly, but the settlers have kept rebuilding until “the forces gave up” a few weeks ago, says Ascherman. Israeli forces responding to the stone-throwing today did dismantle the outpost afterward, but it was back up again about an hour later, he says. No arrests were reported.

Molly Hart, the activist who captured the footage of Ascherman’s car being stoned, later traveled to the Palestinian village of Duma in the northern West Bank. Hart says settlers came to Duma four times this evening and harassed people, including by shining flashlights in their faces.

Settlers play loud music outside the Palestinian village of Duma in the northern West Bank, December 22, 2025. (courtesy Molly Hart)

In the fourth incident, Hart tells The Times of Israel, a fellow activist was left limping after being hit in the leg by a stone hurled by a settler who had walked into the Palestinians’ compound and rattled the shaky homes. That settler had broken off from three others who were playing loud music from a boombox that they placed just outside the village fence. Police arrived about 15 minutes after the settlers left and made no arrests, she says.

Police and the IDF do not immediately respond to requests for comment.