torched a mosque<\/a> early on Sunday, as attackers sprayed slogans in Hebrew on its walls with messages, including \u201cJewish revenge\u201d and the name of one of the Israelis killed near Tal.<\/p>\n\u201cThe village has faced repeated attacks since 2011, and these attacks have increased since the war [on Gaza],\u201d Wadi told Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n
Palestinian officials said settlers also tried to burn a mosque near Kour, southeast of the city of Tulkarem.<\/p>\n
Farid Jiyousi, a member of the village council, said three settlers tried to set the mosque ablaze at dawn, but worshippers put out the fire before it reached the main area of the mosque.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the first attack our village has experienced,\u201d he said, adding that the attackers had also sprayed graffiti in Hebrew on the mosque walls.<\/p>\n
A surveillance camera captured the moment Israeli settlers set fire to a Palestinian home in the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n
The video, published on local social media accounts, shows settlers attacking the house and setting part of it ablaze.<\/p>\n
The settlers then fled after setting the house on fire, while Palestinian residents managed to control the fire and to limit the damage.<\/p>\n
How many settler attacks were reported?<\/p>\n
Israeli Army Radio reported at least 30 settler attacks across the Palestinian territory since Friday.<\/p>\n
Overall, such attacks have surged 63 percent in the first half of 2026, Israeli Army Radio reported, citing security data, with at least 660 incidents recorded as opposed to 405 in the second half of 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the weekend, an unusual number of 30 nationalist crime incidents were recorded in the territories,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
Since October 2023, at least 1,185 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank, including 250 children. At least 87 Palestinians have been killed so far in the territory in 2026, including 21 killed by settlers.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast night was a sleepless one for Palestinians across the occupied West Bank. People are basically under lockdown, isolated, unable to call the firefighters, unable to call for any help or protection \u2013 not from the Palestinian police and certainly not from the Israeli army that accompanies the settlers,\u201d Al Jazeera\u2019s Nour Odeh said, reporting from the West Bank.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have to stay up to protect their homes from arson attacks by settlers, to protect their loved ones from attacks by settlers. So for Palestinians, this is deadly serious,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey understand that they\u2019re all on their own.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Palestinians repair a damaged house following an attack by Israeli settlers in the village of Sarra, near the West Bank city of Nablus, July 25, 2026 [Leo Correa\/AP]How many Palestinians have been detained?<\/p>\n
The Palestinian Prisoner\u2019s Society said the detained individuals included former Palestinian prisoners.<\/p>\n
The arrests were concentrated in the occupied West Bank\u2019s Nablus governorate, where the Israeli army has been carrying out incursions.<\/p>\n
Specifically in the town of Tal, large-scale raids and interrogations are taking place, according to the monitor group.<\/p>\n
The number of those arrested in the town since Friday reached about 80, most of whom have since been released. About 18 Palestinians, including children, remain in detention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli settlers, backed by the military, have been on a rampage in the occupied West Bank, torching at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5697,3895,85,46,44,47,43,45,48],"class_list":["post-560654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-explainer","tag-gun-violence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-occupied-west-bank","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560654","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=560654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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A Palestinian boy sits outside a mosque damaged by Israeli settlers, in Qusra near Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, July 26, 2026 [Mohamad Torokman\/Reuters]What\u2019s happening?<\/p>\n![\"Interactive_West_Bank_Settler_Attacks_July26_2026-1785063933\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Interactive_West_Bank_Settler_Attacks_July26_2026-1785063933.jpg\")
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