In the West Bank, a wave of coordinated attacks by settlers against Palestinians

A series of coordinated attacks carried out by Israeli settlers targeted several Palestinian villages in the West Bank over the weekend, marking a further deterioration in the security situation in this territory, which has been occupied for nearly sixty years. According to the Palestinian Authority’s security services, this violence, described as “serious and coordinated”, affected several localities simultaneously, against a backdrop already marked by escalating tensions over the past few weeks.

These attacks follow the death of an 18-year-old settler, which occurred after a collision with a vehicle driven by a Palestinian. Whilst the circumstances of the incident are still under investigation by the Israeli army, certain political leaders and figures from the religious far right were quick to label the event a murder, fuelling a climate of retaliation.

In the wake of this, several hundred settlers, some of whom were armed, carried out raids on various villages. In Jaloud, near Nablus, residents were attacked and infrastructure set alight, including a public building and several vehicles. Further attacks were reported in Silat Ad-Dahr, where an attempt to set a house on fire left one person injured, and in Fandaqoumiya, where homes and cars were destroyed by fire. Palestinian vehicles were also targeted by stone-throwing on several roads, resulting in injuries.

According to a Palestinian security source, these actions are not isolated incidents but form part of a broader pattern characterised by mobilisations of settler groups, roadblocks and simultaneous attacks against civilians and their property. The Palestinian Authority accuses the far-right Israeli government of supporting, or at the very least tolerating, this violence, referring to an “organised and systematic policy”. The Israeli army, for its part, acknowledges the incidents but describes them as “disturbances”, whilst mentioning acts of arson.

The debate is also heated within Israeli political circles. Some officials explicitly condemn this violence, going so far as to speak of “Jewish terrorism”. Former senior military officials have recently warned of what they describe as “pogroms”, whilst several European countries have condemned a rise in “acts of terror”. In the Knesset, centrist voices have also condemned attacks targeting Palestinian civilians with no connection to acts of violence.

Conversely, some members of the government are taking a hard line. At the young settler’s funeral, the finance minister spoke of the goal of “collapsing” the Palestinian Authority and reaffirmed his support for the full annexation of the West Bank. Le Monde

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