Palestinians recall violent assault in which dozens of settlers pelted them with rocks, burned cars and wreaked havoc

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39177296

By Mera Aladam and MEE correspondent in Jab’a, Bethlehem, occupied Palestine
Published date: 18 November 2025 15:19 GMT

Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian homes, vehicles and farmland in the latest attack in the occupied West Bank on Monday.

The large-scale evening assault on the town of Jab’a, southwest of Bethlehem, left three homes torched. The properties belonged to Raafat Hilal Mashaaleh, Muhammad Musa Musa and Yusuf Ahmad Musa.

Mashaaleh told Middle East Eye that the attack began as his brother was helping their sister and her children into a car parked in the family garden.

A stone was thrown at the vehicle, and when he looked up he saw two men hurling rocks. Moments later, he realised there were around 50 assailants.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        7 hours ago

        No, seems like you got it.

        I’m saying that it’s part of the same overarching conflict/occupation. It’s folly to try to separate them.

        • TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish
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          5 hours ago

          They are literally, physically and governmentally, separate.

          I’m not trying to say that Israel isn’t being horrible in the West Bank (they are), nor am I saying that the pattern of behavior towards Palestinians is not the same in both places (it is), nor am I denying that the overarching conflict is one and the same (it is). I’m saying that the genocidal siege of Gaza, and specifically the ceasefire negotiated with Hamas, do not directly deal with the West Bank nor the Palestinian Authority.

          So it isn’t that the settlers got an “exemption” from the ceasefire, it’s that the ceasefire didn’t deal with that region to begin with.