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		<title>Palestine: Israeli settlers commit arson and vandalism in spate of West Bank attacks</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have set fire to farmland and sprayed racist slogans in a village near Ramallah, according to news reports,&#160;as arson attacks&#160;and deadly Israeli military&#8230; ]]></description>
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<p class="">Israeli  settlers in the occupied West Bank have set fire to farmland and sprayed racist slogans in a village near Ramallah, according to news reports,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/1/7/israeli-settler-attacks-against-palestinians-in-the-occupied-west-bank">as arson attacks</a>&nbsp;and deadly Israeli military raids have escalated in recent days.</p>



<p class="">The attacks came as Ronen Bar, the head of Israel’s internal security agency Shin Bet (Shabak), urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday to greenlight a major military offensive in the occupied territory.</p>



<p class="">Palestinian news agency Wafa, quoting witnesses, reported on Friday that a group of settlers attacked the farm on the outskirts of Khirbet Abu Falah where they burned a shed and left racist graffiti on the walls in Hebrew.</p>



<p class="">Footage published online by the Quds News Network showed the alleged arson attack.</p>



<p class="">Palestinian civil defence crews were deployed to extinguish the blaze. No injuries were reported in the attack on Thursday night.</p>



<p class="">Wafa reported that Khirbet Abu Falah, as well as the town of Turmus Aya and the village of al-Mughayyir, all northeast of Ramallah, have been subject to repeated raids by Israeli settlers, who allegedly carried them out under the protection of Israeli soldiers.</p>



<p class="">Earlier,  , Israeli settlers also torched a Palestinian-owned vehicle in the village of Wadi Rahhal, south of Bethlehem, according to Al Quds Today.</p>



<p class="">The most recent Israeli settler attacks came after&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/6/three-israelis-killed-in-shooting-attack-in-occupied-west-bank">Palestinian gunmen shot and killed three Israeli settlers</a>&nbsp;near the illegal settlement of Kedumim on Monday.</p>



<p class="">In the first week of 2025, Israeli settler attacks injured at least 18 Palestinians across the occupied territory, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).</p>



<p class="">During the same period, at least three Palestinians, including a teenager, were killed by Israeli forces, while three other Palestinians, including a child, were killed in disputed circumstances, OCHA reported.</p>



<p class="">The data did not include the three other Palestinians, including two children, who were <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/1/8/children-killed-by-israeli-drone-strike-in-occupied-west-bank">killed in an Israeli drone attack</a> in the town of Tammun also in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday.</p>



<p class="">On Friday, Israeli forces continued to carry out raids across the occupied West Bank, firing grenades and arresting several Palestinians.</p>



<p class="">In Qabatiya, south of Jenin, Israeli forces, disguised in civilian clothing, surrounded a house and bombarded it with projectiles, according to Wafa quoting residents in the area.</p>



<p class="">There were no immediate reports of casualties.</p>



<p class="">Since the beginning of 2025, more than 50 Palestinians have been displaced by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/2/25/with-all-eyes-on-gaza-israel-steps-up-demolitions-of-palestinian-homes">Israeli home demolitions across the occupied West Bank</a>, according to OCHA.</p>



<p class="">Overnight, multiple Israeli raids were also reported across Nablus with several young Palestinians arrested.</p>



<p class="">Footage posted on Telegram shows the moment when Israeli forces lined up and detained dozens of young men during an assault on the town of Deir Istiya, northwest of <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/4/11/palestinians-face-expulsions-as-israel-tightens-hold-on-west-bank">Salfit</a>.</p>



<p class="">Israeli forces also raided al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem; the town of Nilin, west of Ramallah; the villages of Hajjah and Baqat al-Hatab, east of Qalqilya; and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/23/two-killed-dozens-arrested-after-israel-raids-occupied-west-bank">Jalazone refugee camp</a>, a frequent target of Israeli military operations.</p>



<p class="">On Friday, Shin Bet’s Bar was quoted as saying in a Channel 12 news report that Israel should&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/7/israel-marks-a-year-of-deadly-hamas-led-october-7-attack">learn from the October 7</a>&nbsp;Hamas attack and launch a major offensive in the occupied West Bank.</p>



<p class="">“A broad, reality-changing move must be initiated that will collapse and eliminate the phenomenon of the armed Palestinian battalions … in order to ensure our freedom of operation there.”</p>
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