{"id":559747,"date":"2026-07-26T02:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/559747\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T02:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:41:08","slug":"israel-arrests-nine-at-tel-aviv-protest-against-west-bank-settler-violence-occupied-west-bank-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/559747\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel arrests nine at Tel Aviv protest against West Bank settler violence | Occupied West Bank News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Protest group says at least 200 demonstrated in Israeli capital a day after major escalation of West Bank violence.<\/p>\n

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Israeli police have arrested nine people at a Tel Aviv demonstration decrying settler violence in the occupied West Bank, according to media reports and protest organisers.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of people gathered on Kaplan Street on Saturday to demonstrate against the settler violence and Israeli military rule in the occupied Palestinian territory, according to Israeli media. The protest was organised by the left-wing Hadash party and its allies.<\/p>\n

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The Mothers Against Violence protest group said more than 200 people took part in the demonstration, and accused police of using force against demonstrators, including the nine they confirmed were arrested.<\/p>\n

Israeli police said demonstrations had gone ahead without authorisation and had begun to \u201cdisrupt public order and block the roadway\u201d, according to local media.<\/p>\n

The protest came a day after Israeli forces shot dead four Palestinians in the town of Tal, near Nablus, during a settler incursion on their land. Two Israelis were also killed in the confrontation.<\/p>\n

On Friday, about 30 settlers entered Tal, next to the illegal Israeli settlement of Havat Gilad, and tried to break into two houses on Friday, said Essam Saifi<\/a>, a local Fatah official. Residents confronted them, and the settlers opened fire.<\/p>\n

A video shows a Palestinian man seizing a rifle from a settler and shooting him before soldiers shot him dead. Three others were killed and four wounded.<\/p>\n

Ubai al-Aboudi, a rights activist in Ramallah, told Al Jazeera that one week prior, settlers set fire to a home in Tal with the family still inside. \u201cIt was a miracle that the residents of Tal were able to get that family out of the house before they were burned alive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In retaliation for Friday\u2019s shooting incident, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a wide-scale military operation across the West Bank, and Israeli forces arrested nearly 50 Palestinians in Tal<\/a>\u00a0while raiding about 70 homes.<\/p>\n

The Palestinian Prisoner\u2019s Society said at least 80 Palestinians were held across the West Bank the day after the incident, calling it \u201ccollective punishment\u201d.<\/p>\n

Funerals for the four killed were held before dawn under restrictions on attendance.<\/p>\n

Political analyst Ori Goldberg said video of the attack on Tal had made denial impossible for the Israeli public.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey saw the Jewish terrorist come into the villages and they saw the response \u2026 I\u2019m not expecting the public to rise in protest in response, but I do expect this might revivify the last dregs of liberal Zionism in protest,\u201d he told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis may be a threshold moment in what Israelis have previously termed as \u2018settler violence\u2019 in an attempt to distance it from themselves,\u201d Goldberg added.<\/p>\n

At least 1,182 Palestinians have been killed, 13,000 wounded and nearly 24,000 arrested in the occupied West Bank since Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza began in October 2023, according to official Palestinian figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Protest group says at least 200 demonstrated in Israeli capital a day after major escalation of West Bank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1155,85,46,44,47,43,45,48,52],"class_list":["post-559747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-human-rights","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-occupied-west-bank","tag-palestine","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}