Israeli settlers attack West Bank Palestinians:

[applegrove]

Israelis smashed cars, burned homes and wounded several Palestinians as the Iran war and expanding West Bank occupation intensifies settler violence.

— HuffPost (@huffpost.com) 2026-03-22T20:20:15.931Z

[Mossfern]

1. Settlers

[questionseverything]

3. The settlers do it with the Israel government's consent

[superpatriotman]

15. A loaded term

And very propaganda workshopped.

[David__77]

17. Immigrants?

[malaise]

2. Jimmy Carter was right

That is all

[Strelnikov_]

4. Description is like something that happened in Germany

circa 1938

[malaise]

7. Same with Gaza and Lebanon

Sick of this madness

[dalton99a]

5. Palestinian Man Recounts Brutal Sexual Assault by Israeli Settlers

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/world/middleeast/west-bank-sexual-assault-israel-settlers.html

Palestinian Man Recounts Brutal Sexual Assault by Israeli Settlers
The man said his attackers stripped him naked, beat him and zip-tied his genitalia, an account corroborated by family members and a rights activist who were also beaten.
By David M. Halbfinger and Fatima AbdulKarim
March 18, 2026

Israeli settlers beat a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank, stripped him naked, tied his arms and legs and then zip-tied his penis, he, his family members and another witness said on Wednesday.

“I thought I was going to die,” the man, Suhaib Abualkebash, a 29-year-old shepherd, told The New York Times. “I thought this was the end.”

Several family members and an American woman corroborated details of Mr. Abualkebash’s account, saying they witnessed the sexual assault on Friday by several men among a group of more than 20 settlers who marauded through a Bedouin encampment. The relatives and the American said they had been beaten, too, adding that the assailants had kicked and slapped children during the attack. Family members also shared copies of reports they had filed to the Israeli police.

Israeli settlers have been waging an escalating campaign of violence and land theft against Palestinians across much of the West Bank. It has intensified as Israeli attitudes toward Palestinians have hardened since the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the war that ensued.

The attacks have increased while international attention has been focused on the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. Settlers have killed seven West Bank Palestinians so far this year, six of them since the war began on Feb. 28.

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[Deuxcents]

6. Eminent domain with violence. They will continue to encroach until they have it all and kill those in the way

All with Bibi’s blessing while he’s trying to level Iran and Lebanon

[Disaffected]

8. Once again,

the oppressed become the oppressors.

[Mossfern]

25. They weren't being oppressed in Brooklyn

I could be wrong now, but I assume that the settlers in the West Bank were mostly from the US. It could be different now, but I do know that the Orthodox (maybe Ultra Orthodox) were urging moving to Israel, specifically in the West Bank. There was a surge of right wing Orthodox emigration that tipped the political scales in Israel and allowed Likud to take control.

I have to say that my knowledge is sketchy, but when I was younger Israel was more left leaning and liberal.

I really do need to read up on this and not rely on conversations since I was young.
When I was younger, I was going to go to Israel through the Jewish agency, but it was to do social work with Palestinians. It was a two year commitment with 6 months in ulpan. Then the Yom Kippur war broke out and I changed my mind.

[walkingman]

9. The simplest solution to the Israel problems are for the US government

to hold Israeli government to the pre-1967 Six-Day War (Green Line) which is recognized by the international community as their legal, recognized boundary. This means that Israel's presence in the occupied territories is illegal, and the entire international community, including the US, should call for immediate withdrawal, the cessation of settlement expansion, and reparations for Palestinians.

Without this we should no longer offer aid or military support - there must be some sort of 2-State solution of the problem will never go away.

Just follow international law - not that complicated.

[Bread and Circuses]

11. YES ! Agree

[B.See]

19. Which, if I recall correctly,

was President Obama's proposal re. the Green Line.

Though personally, I remain convinced that Netanyahu and his far right, aren't, and never were interested in a two state solution (nor, for that matter, were extremists on the opposite side).

One has to first believe in the right of the other to even exist, much less peacefully coexist.

[Bread and Circuses]

10. Are these citizens ever arrested and jailed ?

[Rob H.]

12. It never stopped nt

[Diraven]

13. Unfortunately I think it's inevitable

That eventually they'll have enough settlers there and Israeli soldiers "protecting" them that they'll start a full on pogrom.

[David__77]

18. The question is what qualifies as "full on", not whether it's a pogrom.

[Wuddles440]

14. Sickening and soul crushing!

Violent, larcenous thugs pillaging and abusing the innocent - pure evil.

[Iggo]

16. Because of course they do.

[H2O Man]

20. Recommended.

Thank you for this. I think far too few people are aware of this.

[Prairie Gates]

21. The paramilitary death squads are committing more pogroms, it seems

"settlers"

[cliffside]

22. U.S. Will Offer Embassy Services in a West Bank Settlement for the First Time

Full article ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/world/middleeast/us-consular-services-israeli-settlements.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VVA.Srnw.A8zmUIadUMmf&smid=url-share

"It made headlines in 2018 when the U.S. ambassador to Israel made an official visit to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, breaking a longstanding foreign-policy taboo. Most of the world views the settlements as illegal, and U.S. officials had steered clear to avoid lending them legitimacy.

Another barrier is about to be broken. On Friday, the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem has announced, it will set up shop in Efrat, a fast-growing Jewish settlement, to offer American citizens assistance with their passports. The embassy plans to do the same in Beitar Illit, an ultra-Orthodox settlement, in the coming months.

Such one-day consular pop-ups have operated before in Palestinian towns in the West Bank like Ramallah and Taybeh. Others are also planned in the Israeli cities of Haifa, Beit Shemesh and Netanya. But officials said Friday would be the first time consular services were delivered in an Israeli settlement.

An embassy spokesman insisted that the move did not represent a change in U.S. policy. But Israelis and Palestinians, in an unusual convergence of opinion, agreed that it did..."

[applegrove]

23. Hamas comment in the article. I'm out.

[leftstreet]

24. DURec