Settler extremists said to shatter house windows, cars in West Bank Palestinian village
Footage from Sunday night shows one of a dozen masked assailants shouting ‘Ramadan Kareem’ while hurling rock at a house; residents file police complaint, no arrests yet made
Settler extremists attacked several homes in the Palestinian village of Susya in the southern West Bank on Sunday night, according to reports by Palestinians and left-wing Israeli activists.
Caught on film by a home security camera, around a dozen masked young men can be seen picking up rocks from the ground and hurling them in the camera’s direction. One of the assailants, wearing a camouflage mask, shouted “Ramadan Kareem” — a traditional greeting for the Muslim holy month — after throwing a stone at one of the houses.
The attackers attempted to break into a home in the village, according to an activist who spoke to The Times of Israel on Tuesday on condition of anonymity.
After failing to break into the house, the assailants ventured further into the village, where they “threw rocks and damaged two cars there,” he said.
By the end of the night, assailants had shattered the windows of two houses and two cars. No injuries were reported.
Palestinian residents called the police shortly after the attack began, but Israeli authorities — a police officer accompanied by an IDF soldier — arrived late to the scene.
While Basel and Yuval were accepting the Oscar for "No Other Land", Israeli settlers were attacking Palestinian homes in Masafer Yatta, taunting them with shouts of "Ramadan Kareem" during the assault.
This is the daily settler terrorism that Palestinians in the West Bank… pic.twitter.com/31mEQe2l2P
— Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) March 3, 2025
On Tuesday, three men from the village traveled to an Israel Police station in nearby Hebron to file a formal complaint with law enforcement.
Police have not yet responded to requests for comment, and no arrests were announced in connection to the incident.
Acts of vandalism, harassment and violence by settlers are a regular occurrence in Susya, about once every two weeks, according to the left-wing activist.
Located in the West Bank’s South Hebron Hills, it is one of many Palestinian villages that have come under increasing duress by settlers from nearby outposts in recent years.
A massive uptick in settler attacks in the wake of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught prompted former US president Joe Biden’s administration to issue a spate of sanctions against West Bank settlers, in light of Israeli authorities’ apparent neglect to deal with the issue. The sanctions were rolled back by US President Donald Trump soon after he took office.
Many of the formerly sanctioned individuals live on outposts in the South Hebron Hills.
Yinon Levi, who founded the illegal Meitarim Farm outpost near Susya, was one of the first to be slapped with sanctions in early 2024, accused by the Biden administration of organizing assaults against Palestinians.
Following the October 7 assault on southern Israel, the IDF ordered work carried out in several locations to block West Bank Palestinian towns from accessing roads used by settlers.
Locals said Levi drove a tractor to carry out the “engineering operations” for the army on October 16. According to their account, he also used the tractor to smash and badly damage three water cisterns used by the village for agricultural purposes.
