Israeli settlers burned and destroyed the West Bank Israel and Palestine conflict news

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers set fire to farmland and spray-painted racist slogans in a village near Ramallah, news reports said, amid an escalation of Israeli arson and deadly military incursions in recent days.

The attack came as the head of Israel’s internal security agency, Ronen Barr, urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday to green-light a major military offensive in the occupied territory.

Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing witnesses, reported that settlers attacked a farm on the outskirts of Kirbet Abu Fallah on Friday, burning racist graffiti in Hebrew on a wall.

A picture published online by the Quds News Network shows what is said to have been arson.

Members of the Palestinian Civil Defense Force were deployed to put out the fire. No injuries were reported in the attack on Thursday night.

According to Wafa, Kirbet Abu Fallah, as well as the town of Turmus Aya and the village of Al-Mughayer, northeast of Ramallah, have been repeatedly raided by Israeli settlers and are said to be guarded by Israeli soldiers.

Earlier, Israeli settlers also set fire to a Palestinian-owned car in the village of Wadi Rahal, south of Bethlehem, Al Quds Today reported.

The latest attack by Israeli settlers comes after Palestinian militants shot and killed three Israelis near the illegal settlement of Qadim on Monday.

In the year At least 18 Palestinians were wounded in the occupied territories by Israeli settler attacks in the first week of 2025, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

At the same time, at least three Palestinians, including a teenager, were killed by Israeli forces, while three others, including a child, were killed in clashes, according to OCHA.

The data did not include three other Palestinians, including the two children, who were killed by Israeli drone strikes in the occupied West Bank town of Tamun on Wednesday.

On Friday, Israeli forces continued to carry out raids in the occupied West Bank, firing grenades and arresting scores of Palestinians.

In Qabatia, south of Jenin, Israeli soldiers dressed in civilian clothes surrounded a house and hit it with projectile bombs, Wafa reported, citing local residents.

No casualties have been reported yet.

In the year Since the beginning of 2025, more than 50 Palestinians have been displaced by the rubble of their homes in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to OCHA.

Overnight, several Israeli raids around Nablus reportedly arrested several young Palestinians.

Footage posted on Telegram and verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency shows Israeli soldiers arresting dozens of youths during an attack on the town of Deir Istiya, northwest of Salfit.

Israeli soldiers invaded the town of Al-Kader, south of Bethlehem. West of Ramallah is the city of Nilin; East of Qalqilya, the villages of Hajjah and Baqat al-Khattab; and the Jalazon refugee camp, a frequent target of Israeli military operations.

On Friday, the Shin Bet Bar said in a Channel 12 news report that Israel had learned from the October 7 attack by Hamas and launched a major offensive in the occupied West Bank.

“To ensure our freedom to operate there, a broad, reality-changing move must begin that dismantles and eliminates the phenomenon of armed Palestinian battalions.”