West Bank25 September, 20262 min read
Israeli Colonists Attack Umm Safa, Detain Family and Confiscate Phones Near Ramallah
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Settlers attacked a home in Umm Safa, north of Ramallah. Israeli forces detained a father and son in Tulkarm.
Umm Safa, Tulkarm, Sakhnin
Israeli colonists attacked Mohammad al-Obaiyat’s home in the village of Umm Safa, north of Ramallah, while Israeli occupation soldiers confiscated the family’s mobile phones to prevent them from documenting the incident. Marwan Sabah said the colonists carried out acts of vandalism in the area between Umm Safa and the neighboring village of Burham as occupation forces conducted a large-scale raid on the village. Israeli occupation forces detained a father and his son from the Tulkarm city neighborhood of Shweika, and the soldiers rounded up the homeowner along with his 20-year-old son.
A Palestinian man in his 30s was seriously wounded in a shooting in Sakhnin on Friday afternoon, and Al-Manar TV Lebanon said the death toll among Palestinian citizens of ‘Israel’ since the start of 2026 had reached 163. Israeli colonists assaulted young men in Beitua town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, after intercepting a Palestinian-licensed vehicle carrying them.
Netanyahu’s blame
Benjamin Netanyahu downplayed settler violence in the occupied West Bank by blaming it on ‘juvenile delinquents’. Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly that Israel ‘pummelled’ Hezbollah and broke its spirit. Al-Manar TV Lebanon described Israeli colonists as carrying out attacks that it said are routine in the West Bank and rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
Al-Manar TV Lebanon said Israeli occupation forces detained a father and his son in Tulkarm and stormed the Iktaba suburb and the towns of Anabta and Kafr al-Labad, east of Tulkarm, obstructing the movement of vehicles and inhabitants. Al-Manar TV Lebanon said colonists’ violence against Palestinians and their property remains routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities, with approximately 1 million Israeli colonists living in colonies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of international law.
Detentions, demolitions, and raids
Israeli occupation forces detained more than 150 Palestinians during raids on homes in the city of Qalqilya and the town of Azzun, and TRT Español said about 15 military vehicles with more than 30 soldiers entered Azzun to search several homes. TRT Español said Israeli forces turned a home into a military barracks where detainees were subjected to on-site interrogations before being gradually released. TRT Español reported that Israeli forces blew up at dawn on Thursday the home of Dawas Hassoun in Beit Imrin, and WAFA said the raid surrounded Hassoun’s home before detonating it, causing structural damage to the building and neighboring properties.
TRT Español said Hassoun has been in detention since March 2026, and Israel accuses him of killing a settler about six months earlier. Settlers set fire to two vehicles and sprayed racist and hostile slogans on properties during an attack on the town of Attara, north of Ramallah, at first light on Thursday.