In an Attack at Sunset, Israelis Set a Palestinian Village Ablaze

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The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-palestinians-attack.html

https://archive.ph/M7L0N


The family of Murshid Hamayel at his wake on Friday. Palestinian officials said that Mr. Hamayel was killed in clashes with the Israeli military in Kafr Malik.

Dusk was settling over Kafr Malik, a quiet Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank. At the Afeef family’s home on the outskirts, a mother was putting her newborn to sleep in a ground-floor bedroom. Another relative was pulling up outside with her four young children in the car.

That calm was shattered soon afterward when scores of Israelis, many masked, descended on the village by foot and in vehicles, according to witnesses and local officials.

The attackers hurled Molotov cocktails and set homes and cars on fire, the witnesses and local officials said. The Israeli military said in a statement that dozens of Israeli civilians had set Palestinian property ablaze.

The violence in Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah, last week comes amid a sharp rise in settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank, where about half a million Israelis live in Jewish settlements among three million Palestinians.

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Fire damage outside the Afeef family’s home in Kafr Malik. Graffiti in Hebrew included the words for “vengeance” and “two years,” and partially named two Israeli victims of a 2023 shooting by Palestinians.

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1. More

Genocide by the chosen people. What were they chosen to do? Eliminate all
Palestinians? Oh wait. They call it “Self-defense “. LOL

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2. Chosen to

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steal land and resources.
It’s so convenient to have imaginary friends egging you on.
I detest all religions

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3. "Settlers" like they're pilgrims

Terrorists is more accurate.

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4. Those faces say it all.

Heartbreaking

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5. Thus continues Netanyahu's years-long campaign of deliberate civilian murder

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6. Quiet, West Bank Pogrom in Progress

Last week, settlers set fire to Palestinian property and soldiers shot dead three Palestinians in the village of Kafr Malik.

A few days later, settlers assaulted soldiers who were sent to remove them from the outpost – from which, according to suspicions, the rioters had come. Although both incidents are egregious, only one was condemned – the one in which Jews were harmed – and even that condemnation was very weak.

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Quiet, let them carry out a pogrom, is the message that Israel's most senior politicians send to the hilltop youth militias in the field. These militias have also led to the expulsion of residents of dozens of Palestinian communities in recent years; one of their goals is to demoralize the Palestinian residents of the West Bank so that they will leave "voluntarily."

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https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2025-06-30/ty-article-opinion/.premium/quiet-west-bank-pogrom-in-progress/00000197-bd2b-d013-a5b7-bd7fb4440000

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7. Netanyahu's KKK.