Seven injured as settlers allegedly set fire to Palestinian buildings in West Bank
Footage shows burning buildings in Jaba, north of Jerusalem, with later video showing settlers and Palestinians throwing stones at each other
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Palestinian media outlets reported on Sunday that seven Palestinians were injured in an alleged settler attack in the area of the West Bank village of Jaba and a nearby Bedouin encampment north of Jerusalem.
Videos from showed burned structures in the area, with reports claiming that settlers had set the buildings on fire.
“Dozens of masked settlers came to the village this morning with gasoline,” a Jaba resident told the Haaretz daily. “They were also wandering around the houses yesterday and last night. We haven’t been sleeping for fear they’ll set fire to our houses with our children inside.”
He claimed the police arrived after the attackers had run away and said they couldn’t identify them because they were masked.
Footage later from the scene showed both sides — apparently Palestinians and settlers — throwing stones at each other.
The IDF did not immediately issue a response.
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The attack came amid a heightened wave of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian olive pickers as well as activists who are aiding the farmers during the harvest, although Sunday’s attack seemingly was not targeted at olive pickers.
On Saturday, 15 people were injured in several settler attacks in the West Bank Those hurt included Palestinians, Israeli and foreign activists, an IDF reservist, a medic, and a Reuters press photographer.
The Palestinian olive-picking season, which began in early October, has seen a string of attacks by settlers and soldiers on olive pickers, who sometimes include volunteers from Israel and abroad, Jewish and otherwise.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Friday that it recorded 264 settler attacks that caused casualties, property damage, or both during October.
The attacks come amid soaring levels of settler violence since the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, which sparked the war in Gaza.
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