(4 Dec 2024)
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Beit Furik, West Bank – 4 December 2024
1. Various of blackened house with with visible signs of damage from fire
2. Wide of ceiling of house
3. Various of people inspecting a burned vehicle
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Adel Hanni, resident of the village of Beit Furik:
"A group of settlers attacked the house where Mohammed Rabi Adel Shehada resides. Some settlers started to break (the house) while others carried incendiary materials that they were using. They burned a shop, they burned a vehicle apart from this one (pointing behind him), they burned and damaged homes and they damaged the windows. The homeowner began shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ (Arabic for God is the greatest) and his daughters joined him. Villagers came to help, pursuing the settlers. And the army was present with the settlers, protecting the settlers. This was around 4:30 in the morning."
5. Burned vehicle
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Adel Hanni, resident of the village of Beit Furik:
"Last night, the army demolished some of the tents that they had set up. During the demolition, the settlers gathered together. They contacted each other and came together. When the Israeli army demolished the tents that they had set up on the land of the village of Beit Furik, it seems that their (the settlers’) malice or so drove them to attack homes. They burned homes and they burned cars as you can see."
7. Man inspecting damaged car
8. Various of damaged car
9. Various of broken window glass
10. People in street
11. Israeli security personnel inspecting the damage
12. People looking down from house with damage from fire
13. Israeli military vehicle
14. House with visible damage caused by fire
STORYLINE:
Jewish settlers mounted a string of attacks on Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank overnight, burning homes and clashing with Israeli troops.
There were no immediate reports of any Palestinian casualties.
The military said Jewish settlers attacked the village of Beit Furik after troops arrived in the area to dismantle an unauthorised farming outpost they had built nearby on land privately owned by Palestinians.
It said the settlers hurled stones, wounding two members of the paramilitary Border Police.
Adel Hanni, a resident of the village, told The Associated Press that a group of roughly 70 settlers gathered on the village lands early morning as the troops took down the outpost.
The settlers burned Hanni’s son’s home, a car, a village shop and smashed the windows of several more homes.
An AP reporter saw a blackened home and a destroyed car on Wednesday morning.
"Some settlers started to break (the house) while others carried incendiary materials,” said Hanni, 57.
Settlers also attacked the village of Huwara, which has been the target of several previous attacks — even before the outbreak of the war in Gaza — and clashed with troops near Rujeib, another Palestinian village, the military said.
Israeli police and the Shin Bet security agency said in a statement that they were investigating the settler attacks. They said they arrested eight Israelis for suspected property damage and assaulting security forces.
The West Bank has seen a surge in settler violence since the start of the war, which was triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack into Israel.
Settlers have also raced to establish new farming outposts that rights groups say are among the biggest drivers of the violence.
Israel captured the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want all three territories for an independent state.
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