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groundloop

(13,809 posts)
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 08:50 PM 20 hrs ago

Israeli settlers smash cars and set fires in the West Bank as 4 Palestinians killed in Gaza

Source: AP News

At least 10 Palestinians were injured Sunday night in attacks in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers, who rampaged through nearby villages after holding a funeral for a settler killed in a car crash a night earlier.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said the wounded in Deir al-Hatab included a 45-year-old man shot in the foot and a woman suffering from smoke inhalation. Videos obtained by The Associated Press show cars and homes set ablaze as army flares lit up the sky near the village east of Nablus and next to the Israeli settlement of Elon Moreh.

The arson and assaults in four Nablus-area villages on Sunday came a day after the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported simultaneous attacks in at least six communities overnight — the latest spates of violence in the occupied West Bank.

Sunday night’s rampage came after mourners in the settlement of Elon Moreh held a funeral for Yehuda Sherman, an 18-year-old Israeli settler. Authorities said he was killed in a collision with a Palestinian vehicle in an area north of the villages attacked. Police said they were investigating the settlers’ claims that the collision was deliberate. Israel’s military did not respond to questions about Sunday night’s attacks.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-west-bank-settlers-9ded87da79b032cff60ddd8797846f0e

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Israeli settlers smash cars and set fires in the West Bank as 4 Palestinians killed in Gaza (Original Post) groundloop 20 hrs ago OP
No sense of history or empathy to weaker people. Sickening. Chasstev365 20 hrs ago #1
they are terrorists not settlers. why call them something they are not nt msongs 20 hrs ago #2
Words definitely matter. It's a worn out PC term... littlemissmartypants 17 hrs ago #6
It's Like That Whole Country Deep State Witch 19 hrs ago #3
Settler violence and depravity has been going on for decades. AloeVera 19 hrs ago #4
Well said Bayard 17 hrs ago #5
You are 100% correct. BurnDoubt 13 hrs ago #9
Such a kind and compassionate people.. Exp 15 hrs ago #7
Using Religion for cover to do EVIL. BurnDoubt 13 hrs ago #8
Pariah state... 2naSalit 11 hrs ago #10

littlemissmartypants

(33,234 posts)
6. Words definitely matter. It's a worn out PC term...
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 12:03 AM
17 hrs ago

That's been around for a while and needs to be retired. Calling them agitators wouldn't be off target.

AloeVera

(4,227 posts)
4. Settler violence and depravity has been going on for decades.
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 09:36 PM
19 hrs ago

Most of them got away with it too, never faced justice. The entitlement, arrogance and cruelty only got worse with impunity and the genocide in Gaza. Really sick people. But the police, the IDF and the STATE all look away and protect them. It's clearly a societal problem, not just a settler issue. Actually, Israel needs these people to "settle" Palestine or in other words steal Palestinian land. Truly one of the great, ongoing injustices of our time.

BurnDoubt

(1,679 posts)
9. You are 100% correct.
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 03:14 AM
13 hrs ago

They should be shunned by civilized people everywhere.
My allegiance goes to the innocents.

BurnDoubt

(1,679 posts)
8. Using Religion for cover to do EVIL.
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 03:08 AM
13 hrs ago

Not a good look.
Is ANYBODY watching?
This is WRONG in every Religion.
Barbarism is the #1 Religion on this planet, by far.

I BLAME RELIGION.

2naSalit

(102,458 posts)
10. Pariah state...
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 05:39 AM
11 hrs ago

Is going to piss off enough people to where they could get themselves wiped off the map.

I have lost the empathy and sympathy I once had for them. What they bring upon themselves from the international world at this point, is not going to be good for them... and our country had better stop funding them and their aggression.

That is all.

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