Israeli settlers torch three Palestinian cars near Ramallah
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Armed Israeli settlers torched vehicles in Deir Dibwan, the West Bank, amid a broader surge of Israeli-backed settler violence and legislative moves toward formal annexation of the occupied West Bank.
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Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian vehicles in Deir Dibwan, near Ramallah, during a pre-dawn raid. (Social media)
Before dawn on Friday, armed Israeli settlers raided the Palestinian town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah, setting fire to three civilian vehicles in yet another act of terror aimed at driving Palestinians from their land.
Local resident Mohammad Samer told Anadolu Agency that "a group of illegal settlers stormed the town before dawn and torched three vehicles."
"Two cars were completely burned, while the third sustained partial damage," he said, adding that residents confronted the attackers and forced them to flee the area.
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The assault comes amid a surge in settler and IOF violence across the occupied West Bank, coinciding with both the olive harvest season and the advancement of legislation in the Israeli Knesset to impose Israeli "sovereignty" over large parts of the territory.
Observers note that since the announcement of the Gaza ceasefire plan, the occupation has escalated its repression in the West Bank, giving settlers free rein to attack Palestinian communities while simultaneously pursuing de jure annexation of Palestinian land.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), settlers carried out 71 attacks on Palestinians between October 7 and 13, half of them targeting farmers during the harvest. The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission reported 158 attacks on olive harvesters this month alone, including violent assaults, crop theft, and vandalism of trees. In total, settlers have uprooted or damaged nearly 49,000 trees, most of them olive trees, in the past two years.
The Commission further documented more than 7,000 settler assaults on Palestinians and their property over the same period, resulting in 33 deaths and the forcible displacement of 33 Bedouin communities. Meanwhile, the United Nations has recorded 757 settler attacks in 2025 alone, with the UN spokesperson for Secretary-General António Guterres condemning the violence as occurring in "an environment defined by a near-total lack of accountability."
Defiance, Annexation, Erasure
Since the war on Gaza began two years ago, Israeli forces and settlers have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians, injured over 10,000, and arrested more than 20,000, including 1,600 children, according to Palestinian authorities. Overnight raids, arbitrary detentions, and land seizures have intensified in towns such as al-Khalil, al-Bireh, and Burqa, while new military checkpoints and settlement outposts tighten "Israel's" grip over the occupied territory.
At the political level, the Israeli Knesset passed a preliminary bill on October 22 to apply "sovereignty" over the West Bank, alongside another to annex the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim near occupied al-Quds. Israeli ministers hailed the votes as "historic," calling for the imposition of full control over "Judea and Samaria," despite international outcry and US warnings.
In July, the International Court of Justice ruled that "Israel's" occupation of Palestinian territory is illegal under international law and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East al-Quds. Yet occupation authorities continue to defy the ruling, entrenching their colonial presence through systematic settlement expansion, land theft, and daily assaults, policies aimed at erasing Palestinian existence on their own soil.
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