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Published : 10 Jun 2026, 12:58 PM
Palestinian media outlets have reported that Israeli settlers have set fires near the Christian village of Taybeh near Ramallah, the administrative capital of Palestine, reports The Times of Israel (ToI).
No injuries have yet been reported in the incident, the ToI says.
It is the latest attack in recent months to target Taybeh, a Christian community with a church that dates back to the 5th century.
Israeli settlers had previously set fire to cars in the area and tagged a building and vehicle with graffiti.
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Faranaz Ibraimo, a politics commentator wrote on Threads: “Right now in Taybeh, an ancient Christian village in occupied Palestine, Israeli settlers are setting fires. The 5th-century Church of St George is under threat. Homes are burning.
“This is the place Jesus took refuge after Lazarus—the oldest living Christian community in the world. And somehow, it’s barely a headline.”
Taybeh made headlines last year when US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited the village after instances of settler violence.
Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister, had called the arson attack “an act of terror”, demanding “harsh consequences” for perpetrators.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), settler attacks in the central West Bank have increased sharply since 2023, with arson, property destruction, and assaults.
OCHA reports claim that Israeli forces frequently accompany or fail to intervene during these attacks, creating what the UN has described as an “environment of impunity” that enables further violence.
