(21 Jan 2025)
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Jinsafut, West Bank – 21 January 2025
1. Security camera footage on screen showing people by vehicle, fire starting in vehicle and people leaving
2. Jinsafut resident watching screen
3. Close of screen showing vehicle burning
4. Various of burned vehicle
5. Jalal Bashir, head of Jinsafut’s village council, standing next to burned vehicle, pointing to damage
6. Close of wheel of burned vehicle
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jalal Bashir, head of Jinsafut’s village council:
"The settlers were masked and had incendiary materials and Molotov cocktails. They attacked the northern neighbourhood, the area near Road 55. They came in large numbers and it was unprecedented. This confirms that there is incitement on a political level to attack citizens and attack their property."
8. Bashir standing next to burned vehicle
9. Wide of burned vehicle
10. Various of burned store
11. Men standing by burned vehicle
STORYLINE:
Palestinian officials in the occupied West Bank said on Tuesday Jewish settlers stormed Palestinian villages late Monday, setting cars and property ablaze.
Officials in Jinsafut and Al-Funduq, two villages roughly 31 miles (50 kilometers) north of Jerusalem, said that dozens of masked men who are widely believed to be settlers marauded through the villages and attacked homes and businesses.
Jalal Bashir, the head of Jinsafut’s village council, said that the men attacked three houses, a nursery and a carpentry shop located on the village’s main road.
Louay Tayem, head of the local council in Al-Funduq, said dozens of men had fired shots, thrown stones, burned cars, and attacked homes and shops.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said it treated 12 people who were beaten by the men.
It gave no details on their conditions.
Israel’s military said the men hurled rocks at soldiers who had arrived to disperse them, and that it had launched an investigation.
Violence has surged in the West Bank during the Gaza war.
Shortly after the attack, U.S. President Donald Trump cancelled sanctions against Israelis accused of violence in the occupied territory.
The reversal of the Biden administration’s sanctions, which were meant to punish radical settlers, could set the tone for a presidency that is expected to be more tolerant of Israel’s expansion of settlements and of violence toward Palestinians.
There are more than 500,000 settlers in the West Bank who have Israeli citizenship.
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