At least one Palestinian has been killed after dozens of Israeli settlers, some wearing masks, attacked a village in the occupied West Bank.
Video on social media showed cars and houses on fire in Jit, near the city of Nablus 🔗 https://t.co/lu5nKh5oih pic.twitter.com/2r9NrEMRdm
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⚡️BREAKING:
More than 100 Israeli settlers stormed the the village of Jit, east of Qalqilya, West bank protected by the israeli forces and set fire to 4 homes and 6 cars, while opening fire on the residents. pic.twitter.com/3rZH3bQ43g
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Hey there, Jews.
This is really bad optics.
It’s almost like you want everyone in the world to hate you so you can claim you’re being persecuted in order to rally all Jews together behind a common cause?
Muawiya Sedeh, a 38 year-old father of five was at home in the West Bank village of Jit when his house was torched by a band of Jewish settlers, some masked and wielding Molotov cocktails, who stormed in on Thursday night.
He said he escaped with his family with only minutes to spare. When he returned, he said the settlers were jeering and taunting him, saying “We will come back and kill you!” and telling him to go to Jordan or Syria.
Local people said more than 100 people took part in the attack, many wearing masks and clad in black, and appeared well-coordinated, dividing into groups armed with guns and others throwing stones and Molotov cocktails.
“I was lucky, it was a matter of minutes between life and death,” Sedeh said.
Video shared on social media showed cars and houses ablaze and Palestinian emergency services reported that a 22-year-old man was killed by gunfire from the settlers.
Mourners react during the funeral of Rashid Al-Sadeh, the man killed during the attack.
The Jit attack was larger than recent raids by West Bank settlers but was hardly unique, with violence against Palestinian villages already on the rise as settlement building has spread unchecked across the West Bank.
Since the start of the Gaza war, they have picked up even more rapidly. Between Oct 7, when Hamas-led fighters attacked Israel, and this week, the United Nations humanitarian agency OCHA recorded around 1,250 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians, or around four per day.
Of these, around 120 led to Palestinian deaths or injuries and around 1,000 damaged Palestinian property.
Well, there’s no Hamas in the West Bank.
So they can pretty much do whatever they want.
🚨A video captures Israeli settlers attempting to burn down a Palestinian house during yesterday’s pogrom in Jit, Qalqilya, West Bank.
A baby walker in the scene suggests they intended to burn the house with an infant inside—chillingly reminiscent of the tragedy 9 years ago in… pic.twitter.com/oyhtg6jFUi
— Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) August 17, 2024