{"id":254442,"date":"2026-07-29T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254442\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:50:08","slug":"illegal-israeli-settlers-torch-home-abduct-2-palestinians-in-occupied-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254442\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Israeli settlers torch home, abduct 2 Palestinians in occupied West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\">Illegal Israeli settlers set fire to a Palestinian family&#8217;s home near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, while another group abducted two Palestinian men west of Hebron, according to Palestinian sources.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The Palestine Red Crescent Society said its crews evacuated eight family members after settlers torched the house in the Abu Njeim area, east of Bethlehem. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said the settlers also set fire to a Palestinian vehicle during the attack.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">In a separate incident, Wafa reported that Israeli settlers abducted two Palestinian men after vandalising their vehicle near the town of Beit Ula, west of Hebron. No further details were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The occupied West Bank has seen a sharp rise in attacks by illegal Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their property in recent weeks. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Palestinians, as well as Israeli and international human rights organisations, have accused the Israeli military of protecting the settlers and taking part in the attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illegal Israeli settlers set fire to a Palestinian family&#8217;s home near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-254442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}