Settlers set fire to buildings, vehicles in West Bank; medics say four wounded

One of the attacking settlers in Tayasir, West Bank, on 31 March 2026

Matan Golan, Yaniv Kubovich, Rawan Suleiman and Jack Khoury report in Haaretz on 31 March 2026:

Four Palestinians were wounded and evacuated for hospital treatment during a settler attack in the village of Tayasir, outside of Tubas in the West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported.

Footage from the scene shows masked Israeli settlers who, according to residents, set fire to structures, vehicles and a tractor.

In a separate incident on Tuesday, the Red Crescent reported that a 54-year-old man was lightly wounded after being attacked by IDF troops in the ar-Rihiya area near Hebron.

On Sunday night, a 22-year-old Palestinian man was shot dead by IDF troops in Khursa, south of Hebron, the Palestinian Coordination and Liaison Administration informed the West Bank Health Ministry.  Palestinian officials also said the body of the deceased, Ramzi Abdul Hakim al-Awawdeh, is being held by the Israeli army. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, the IDF prevented ambulance crews from reaching him to provide medical treatment until he was pronounced dead. The circumstances preceding the shooting were not reported, and the IDF has not yet issued a response.

Palestinian media also reported Israeli settlers set fire to cars and, in the early morning hours of Tuesday, sprayed graffiti in the village of Nahalin near Bethlehem and on the outskirts of the town of Samu near Hebron.

Graffiti reading “Revenge,” “Greetings Tequila Team,” Israel’s anti-terror unit and “Greetings Avi Bluth,” the IDF’s central command chief, were documented. Footage circulated from Samu showed a settler destroying a security camera. No injuries were reported in these incidents.

IDF sources say that political pressure is preventing the army’s senior command from addressing settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Furthermore, the defense establishment warns that IDF forces are dealing with a new security reality that creates an unusual burden on them and leads to a constant increase in violent incidents with Palestinians, or even between settlers and the army.

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