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Israeli settlers in ‘terror attack’ on West Bank Christian village: Palestinian Authority

Taybeh, home to about 1,300 mostly Christian Palestinians, has experienced several bouts of settler violence in recent months

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Men stand near a vehicle that was reportedly torched by Israeli settlers during an overnight attack on the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on Monday. Photo: AFP
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Israeli settlers attacked the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank, torching cars and spray-painting threatening graffiti, the Palestinian Authority said on Monday.

“Israeli colonial settlers launched a terror attack tonight on the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh (Ramallah), setting fire to Palestinian vehicles and spray-painting racist threats in Hebrew on homes and property,” the Ramallah-based authority wrote on X.

A Taybeh resident, speaking anonymously for safety reasons, said the attack occurred at about 2am local time, with at least two vehicles burned.

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They said one vehicle belonged to a journalist, while noting the damage appeared to target Palestinian property broadly.

A photo shared by a Palestinian government agency on X showed graffiti on a Taybeh wall that read: “Al-Mughayyir, you will regret”, referring to a nearby village that was also attacked by settlers earlier this year.

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The Palestinian Authority’s foreign ministry condemned the attack, calling it “settler terrorism”.

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