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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.

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[–] respectmahauthoritybrah@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When are we gonna start calling them terrorists?

[–] hayvan@feddit.nl 16 points 2 days ago

I mean I've been calling them that for the past 25 years. Before that I wasn't really familiar with the issue.

[–] aarch0x40@piefed.social 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Looks like settlers get a cease fire exemption

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

West Bank isn’t part of the ceasefire as far as I know, since it wasn’t part of the conflict in Gaza.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Right. Sure it isn’t

That reads as sarcastic so I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

I know that the ceasefire didn't include that region, I'm saying that's bullshit.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

Can we literally round up and jail ALL of these settlers, at least from the last say, 30 years or so

All of them are criminals

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Now children, don’t let your education “confuse” you into sympathizing with the “skinny, weak” Palestinians.

But seriously though. This is the holocide Monbiot speaks of

https://www.monbiot.com/2025/10/02/holocide/

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Settlers = terrorists

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

The shtetls are subjected to regular pogroms.