Several Palestinians reportedly wounded during settler attacks in southern West Bank

A number of people were wounded in settler attacks on the Palestinian enclave of Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank on Tuesday, with dozens of Israelis reportedly torching homes in several villages.

Others were wounded by IDF gunfire elsewhere in the territory, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, including a man who the Palestinian Authority’s health ministry later said succumbed to his wounds.

The medical service said its own medics were stoned by settlers while trying to reach the hamlet of Khirbet al-Fakhit, where they treated a young man who suffered a head wound and a teenage girl whose arm was broken, both of whom were hospitalized.

Several other people suffered bruises in a settler attack on the nearby village of Khirbet al-Halawa, where settlers also stole 150 head of livestock, according to WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency.

In nearby Wadi al-Rakhim, settlers also chopped down 500 olive, date, fig and almond trees, WAFA reported.

A resident of the area was cited by the news agency as saying his wife and daughter were pepper-sprayed by settlers who threw stones at their home.

Another resident had his car and the windows of his home smashed, and burned firewood that he stored for heating, according to the news agency.

Footage published on social media showed settlers tossing wood into a large fire with what appeared to be a shed in the middle.

While Israeli security forces arrived at the scene, no arrests were made.

בשעה זו מתקפת מתנחלים בדרום הר חברון שכוללת הצתות, דיווחים על פצועים. מסתמן כי המתקפה מתרחשת במספר מוקדים במקביל.

תיעוד – 27 א pic.twitter.com/07q3OTk96P

— Matan Golan (@MatanGolanPhoto) January 27, 2026

The reports came as the Israel Defense Forces clashed with Palestinians in the city of Dahariya, a few kilometers away from Masafer Yatta, according to Palestinian media. Two Palestinians were wounded by Israeli gunfire during the clashes, the Red Crescent said, including the 20-year-old man that the PA health ministry reported was killed in an IDF raid.

In a separate, earlier incident, a 13-year-old boy was evacuated to the hospital from the central West Bank’s Qalandiya refugee after being hit in the foot by IDF gunfire, the Red Crescent sad.

In Beit Fajjar, several vehicles were firebombed and a home was graffitied with the Hebrew phrase, “The Land of Judah Awakens.”

The IDF did not respond to requests for comment on the series of violent incidents.

In the northern West Bank, meanwhile, settlers reportedly tried to attack the Palestinian village of Duweir, in the area of Tulkarem, but were rebuffed by locals. Footage published by Arabic media showed masked settlers hurling sticks and stones at masked Palestinians in a field outside the village.

BREAKING: close to 500 Palestinian-owned olive trees damaged by settlers near the Palestinian village of Susiya pic.twitter.com/EdmeZUhSit

— Yehuda Shaul (@YehudaShaul) January 27, 2026

Northeast of there, close to Nablus, Israeli activists from left-wing religious group Bnei Avraham filmed an armed settler dumping a truckload of what was said to be spoiled dates in front of a Palestinian home in the community of Fasa’il.

According to Haaretz, the man is an active IDF reservist, who also filmed himself on January 15 similarly dumping date waste in front of the Palestinian home, and more recently filmed the home’s surroundings, including while bringing his own livestock to graze on the land.

The IDF has said he was documenting illegal construction, and later said his conduct was unacceptable but that he was legally entitled to graze in the area, Haaretz reported.

מתנחל במילואים שפך לפני שעה קלה משאית מלאה בפסולת תמרים בקהילה בפסאיל שבבקעת הירדן.

רק שזו לא הפעם הראשונה שהוא עושה את זה.
ב15.1 לינואר תועד כשהוא מבצע את אותה פעולה בדיוק, באותו מקום. בבגדים אחרים.

בין שני האירועים האלו תועד כשהוא מצלם לתוך חצר בית פלסטיני. בדו״צ מסרו אז… pic.twitter.com/tescDXEOXm

— Matan Golan (@MatanGolanPhoto) January 27, 2026

Settler attacks, which occur on a near-daily basis, largely go unchecked. Prosecutions of assailants are rare, and convictions are even rarer. Critics have accused the government, described as the most hardline in Israel’s history, of shrugging off the attacks.

The number of attacks by extremists against Palestinians and Israeli security forces in the West Bank rose by 27 percent in 2025 compared to the previous year, according to data released by the IDF and Shin Bet security agency earlier this month.

The number of severe incidents of “nationalistic crime” by settler extremists, classified by Israeli security bodies as terrorism, also rose by over 50%, according to the data.

Emanuel Fabian and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.