Israeli Forces Raid Beita And Odla, While Settlers Attack Vehicles East Of Ramallah

Israeli forces raided the towns of Beita and Odla, south of Nablus, on Monday evening, with Palestinian local sources reporting that Israeli military vehicles stormed the two towns and fired stun grenades and tear gas in their streets.

“Israeli settlers have launched another wave of raids in the occupied West Bank, with houses and cars set on fire and a Palestinian child attacked”

Al Jazeera

In the same reporting, WAFA said Israeli forces and settlers isolated four Palestinian homes behind an iron gate in Tuqu', southeast of Bethlehem, after Tuqu' Mayor Tayseer Abu Mufreh said an iron gate was moved closer to residents’ homes to isolate the Sabah family.

Al Jazeera

In Ramallah, WAFA reported that settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles with stones on the road connecting Deir Dibwan and Rammun, east of Ramallah, and the report said there were no injuries.

Al Jazeera described a separate wave of raids in the occupied West Bank in which houses and cars were set on fire and a Palestinian child was attacked with “sharp instruments” in Khirbet Shuweika, south of Hebron, on Friday.

The Al Jazeera account also said that in Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem, Mayor Taysir Abu Mufreh told Wafa that Israeli forces fired “tear gas and sound bombs” at a group of worshippers leaving a local mosque and locked a number of them inside.

In the West Bank raids described by Al Jazeera, the Palestinian Civil Defence arrived after settlers torched a home in the village of al-Lubban Asharqiya, south of Nablus, and in Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, Wafa cited security sources saying settlers “stormed the outskirts of the village, burned a citizen’s vehicle, and wrote racist slogans on the walls of houses”.

Amnesty International said the worrying rise in violence attributed to Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in recent days underscores the need to dismantle illegal settlements and end Israel's occupation, and it quoted Heba Morayef saying, “The alarming wave of violence by settlers against Palestinians in recent days fits within a state-backed campaign”.

Amnesty International

Amnesty International also said Israeli soldiers can be seen present but not intervening during attacks carried out by settlers in Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah, and it quoted Muntaser Al-Maliki describing the situation as “the erasure of humans, trees and stones, of everything Palestinian, by settlers backed by the army.”

In the Le Monde account of Kafr Malik, Amir, 15, said, “The settlers connect on WhatsApp before attacking; they are monsters.”

Le Monde also quoted Hamdi, 27, saying, “They arrived around 7:00–7:30 p.m., they began burning cars and attacking our houses; we tried to defend ourselves with stones and our hands, what else could we do?”

The Saba report tied Monday’s raids and settler attacks to ongoing measures in Tuqu', where Tuqu' Mayor Tayseer Abu Mufreh said Israeli forces escalated arbitrary measures by closing some entrances with earth mounds.

“Israeli settlers attacked the city of Huwara in the northern occupied West Bank on Friday, targeting Palestinians and their property, according to government media and eyewitnesses”

Anadolu Ajansı

In the same Saba account, it said Israeli forces and settlers moved an iron gate in the Al-Bariya area toward the town and near residents' homes, preventing residents from accessing their lands and shepherds from reaching their grazing lands.

In a separate WAFA report from May 11, 2026, WAFA said colonists set up a new colonial outpost on privately-owned Palestinian land at the Jisr al-Khalleh locality in the eastern part of Rammun, and it described colonists’ violence as routine in the West Bank and “rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.”

The WAFA report also stated that “Approximately 1 million Israeli colonists are living in colonies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of international law,” framing the scale of settlement presence alongside the attacks on Palestinian vehicles.

Amnesty International warned that establishing Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories breaches international law and constitutes a war crime, and it said the violence fits within a campaign aiming to dispossess, displace and oppress the Palestinian population in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as part of Israel's apartheid system.