Times of Israel

 

Jewish terrorists set homes and vehicles ablaze in three West Bank Palestinian villages and pelted Palestinian cars with rocks on Sunday night in violent protest over the release of Palestinian prisoners within the framework of the hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

 

Israeli human rights groups and Palestinian activists reported attacks by Jewish terrorist settlers in the town of Turmus Ayya, the villages of Sinjil and Ein Sinya, and along Route 60 close to the village of Luban e-Sharkiya, all in the central West Bank north of Ramallah.

 

The Israel Defense Forces claimed that its forces swiftly entered the Palestinian villages and dispersed rioters, arresting two people in the process, but the Yesh Din organization which campaigns against the settlements said witnesses reported that no crowd dispersal tactics were used against the assailants.

 

The incidents came as the IDF said it was bolstering troop numbers and ramping up defensive efforts in the West Bank to prepare for the expected release of nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners under the deal, amid fears that those freed could return to violence or spur others to do so.

 

Footage published by Yesh Din Sunday night showed vehicles on fire in Sinjil; buildings set ablaze in Ein Sinya; and masked men, some of whom were wearing tzitzit – Jewish ritual fringes – hurling rocks at homes in Turmus Ayya.

 

In Sinjil, at least two homes and four vehicles were torched, including one carrying several gas tanks, causing a large explosion. Video from the scene showed at least a dozen young Palestinian men attempting to unload the gas tanks before they caught fire.

 

According to Palestinian media reports, an 86-year-old man was hospitalized following the attack.

 

Additionally, rocks were thrown by Jewish terrorists at passing vehicles on Route 60, Yesh Din stated, while the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported stoning attacks on cars in several other locations as well, including near Nablus. No injuries were reported in the attacks.

 

‘This is what the message of the government of Israel and Defense Minister [Israel] Katz to ‘strengthen and encourage’ settlements looks like – settler violence against innocent Palestinians without a response from the security forces,’ Yesh Din said in a statement following the attacks.

 

The military said in response, however that ‘IDF and police forces rushed to the villages several minutes after receiving reports of riots, used crowd dispersal methods, and broke up the riots and violence,’ the IDF said.

 

‘The forces are working to identify and arrest those involved,’ the IDF added, noting that two suspects had been detained.

 

Yesh Din insisted although the IDF entered Sinjil and Ein Sinya, the forces did not use crowd dispersal methods against the settler terrorists.

 

In Turmus Ayya, Yesh Din’s field researchers said that the army did succeed in preventing a massive infiltration of settlers in vehicles into the town, but that dozens of them nevertheless managed to enter on foot. In a separate attack by Jewish terrorists against Turmus Ayya earlier this month, a 16-year old Palestinian boy was struck by a rock that smashed his skull.

 

Israeli ultranationalist organization ‘Fighting for Life,’ which supports population transfer of Palestinians from the West Bank, sent out a statement following the settler attacks saying that celebrations and parades had been held in several West Bank towns and villages for the Palestinian prisoners – including convicted terrorists – who had been released from prison on Sunday under the agreement between Israel and Hamas.

 

The organization said that the agreement had given ‘a glimmer of light’ to terrorists, and that ‘this is the time for an offensive initiative in Judea and Samaria, to destroy their celebrations with an attack against the strongholds of the enemy in the villages and the cities and to expel them far from here.’

 

The group was seemingly calling on the security services and Israeli authorities to carry out such actions, although it also insisted that the IDF had not sufficiently suppressed the celebrations of the returning Palestinian prisoners.

 

‘But the residents of Judea and Samaria and the entire people of Israel will not let this lawlessness continue, and if needed will come to spoil the celebration of the enemy by themselves,’ the organization warned.

 

Israeli authorities have been accused of turning a blind eye to claims of rampant settler violence, with many attributing the lack of response to the government’s far-right flank, including outgoing police minister Itamar Ben Gvir, a lawyer known for defending settlers accused of violent attacks. There have been few arrests and even fewer convictions, according to observers.

 

On Friday, Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that all seven Jewish Israelis held on allegations of settler violence under administrative detention orders would be freed, tying it to the release of Palestinian terror convicts as part of the hostage-ceasefire deal signed in Qatar last week.

 

‘It is better for the families of Jewish terrorists to be happy than the families of released terrorists,’ he said in a statement.

 

Administrative detention sees individuals held without charge for up to six months at a time, under limited court review. The detentions can be renewed indefinitely while allowing military prosecutors to keep suspects from being able to see the evidence against them.

 

The practice is primarily deployed against Palestinians but it has also been used sparingly against Jewish terrorists and which has drawn increasing criticism of the ruling Likud party by its far-right coalition allies.

 

Katz’s move followed reports that the government would take additional measures to combat terrorism in the West Bank as part of efforts to convince Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, head of the far-right Religious Zionism party, not to follow Ben Gvir out of the coalition in protest of the Gaza deal.

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  1. The western media once again stabbed the Palestinians in the back after the “ceasefire”, showing celebrations and smiling Palestinians. This was the media spinning once again to give Israelis a “rub it in” moment. I did see video where the Israeli hostages were acting like their Hamas captors DID treat them well, unlike the Palestinians in Israeli prisons who are raped, tortured and murdered with regularity. The “uneven” POW swap undoubtedly was another bur in the shorts of Israel, despite that it WAS because of the many more Palestinians than Israelis who have been held hostage after O7 and going back 70 plus years! If no one stands up to Israel, then ISRAEL ITSELF is holding the world hostage!

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