Settlers said to attack pair of West Bank Palestinian communities, wounding 5 people

Attackers in Beit Fajjar reportedly also targeted medics who came to treat Palestinians who’d been assaulted with sticks, stones and dogs; no arrests reported

By ToI Staff 14 October 2025, 1:40 pm

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Smoke billows during a reported settler attack in the Palestinian West Bank village of Yabrud, October 13, 2025. (Screen capture: X/Palestinian Information Center)

Settlers attacked at least two Palestinian communities in the West Bank on Monday night, vandalizing vehicles and wounding five people, Palestinian media reported.

In Yabrud, east of Ramallah, settlers set fire to a vehicle, vandalized several others and attempted to burn down a home after smashing some of its windows, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency WAFA reported, citing the village council.

Another attack on Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, saw settlers attack Palestinians with sticks, stones and dogs, leading five people to require treatment in a local clinic for fractures and bruises, WAFA said. The settlers also reportedly attacked medics who arrived on the scene.

Quds News Network reported that the settlers burned at least one vehicle and a grape crop in Beit Fajjar.

There were no reports of arrests, which are rare in the near-daily instances of reported settler violence. The IDF, which controls the West Bank, did not immediately comment on the reported attacks Monday night.

According to the PA’s Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, settlers have carried out over 7,150 attacks on Palestinian communities in the West Bank, killing 34 people, since the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, which sparked the war in Gaza.

Israeli army soldiers and an armored vehicle deploy (top R) as Palestinian men and first-responders attempt to extinguish a vehicle that was set ablaze during an attack by Israeli settlers on Palestinians and other activists who had gathered for the annual olive harvest season in the Palestinian village of Beita, south of Nablus in the West Bank, on October 10, 2025, during the annual olive harvest season. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

In the same period, Israeli troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas, according to the IDF.

The Palestinian Authority health ministry has reported that nearly 1,000 West Bank Palestinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or terrorists carrying out attacks.

During the same period, 62 others, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in clashes with terror operatives in the West Bank.