Settlers raid Palestinian village in southern West Bank, leave before cops arrive

Around a dozen armed settlers raid the Palestinian village of Tuba in the West Bank’s South Hebron Hills.

Police were dispatched to the scene but only arrived after the settlers left, according to locals.

The goal of the raid was to try to provoke Palestinian locals into providing a “pretext” to attack them, says the Israeli Beyond the Herd activist group, which works in solidarity with Palestinians in the southern West Bank who face regular attacks from settler extremists.

One of the settlers involved in today’s raid is Issachar Manne, a US citizen who was sanctioned by the Biden administration due to his involvement in attacks on Palestinians. Manne and another US citizen filed a lawsuit against the sanctions that was pending when the Trump administration scrapped them altogether upon taking office.

Tuba is one of a group of Palestinian villages located in Masafer Yatta, which was the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary on settler violence and IDF demolitions of Palestinian homes in the West Bank. Since the movie gained notoriety, villagers have faced an uptick in settler attacks.

Locals say the attacks are designed to intimidate Palestinians into fleeing their land and that they are backed by the state, which rarely prosecutes such incidents.

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