In an Attack at Sunset, Israelis Set a Palestinian Village Ablaze

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The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-palestinians-attack.html

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The family of Murshid Hamayel at his wake on Friday. Palestinian officials said that Mr. Hamayel was killed in clashes with the Israeli military in Kafr Malik.

Dusk was settling over Kafr Malik, a quiet Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank. At the Afeef family’s home on the outskirts, a mother was putting her newborn to sleep in a ground-floor bedroom. Another relative was pulling up outside with her four young children in the car.

That calm was shattered soon afterward when scores of Israelis, many masked, descended on the village by foot and in vehicles, according to witnesses and local officials.

The attackers hurled Molotov cocktails and set homes and cars on fire, the witnesses and local officials said. The Israeli military said in a statement that dozens of Israeli civilians had set Palestinian property ablaze.

The violence in Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah, last week comes amid a sharp rise in settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank, where about half a million Israelis live in Jewish settlements among three million Palestinians.

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Fire damage outside the Afeef family’s home in Kafr Malik. Graffiti in Hebrew included the words for “vengeance” and “two years,” and partially named two Israeli victims of a 2023 shooting by Palestinians.