Jewish settler raids rattle West Bank

Attacks have risen since Israel-Hamas war; peacemakers join Palestinians’ outcry.

- BY JULIA FRANKEL

AN EU delegation inspects the town of Susiya after attacks by Israeli settlers.

(MAMOUN WAZWAZ Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Dozens of Jewish settlers carrying clubs, rocks and bottles of flammable liquid strode into the Palestinian hamlet of Susiya and set fire to vehicles, security camera footage obtained by the Associated Press on Wednesday shows.

Susiya is in the hills of the southern West Bank, where Palestinians often experience settler attacks and whose plight was depicted in last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” Less than a year ago, a settler attack on the village sent a director of the film to the hospital because of injuries from a beating.

The footage of Tuesday's attack is the most recent demonstration of what Palestinians in this area of the Israeli-occupied West Bank say they routinely face. Settler attacks had been increasing for years but spiked after Oct. 7, 2023, when a Hamas-led attack sparked the war in Gaza.