(LifeSiteNews) — Three Palestinians were killed and seven wounded as a result of an Israeli settler terrorist attack upon their town of Kafr Malik in the West Bank, highlighting the ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing in these Israeli-occupied territories.
On Wednesday evening the town—just northeast of Ramallah—was attacked by around 100 masked Israeli terrorists who began to set fire to property.
According to a report by The Guardian, the men of Kafr Malik formed a screen of resistance to the assault in the southwestern part of the town in order to rescue women and children who were trapped in a burning home.
But to drive back the Israeli settler terrorists, they naturally threw stones, at which point the Israeli army, which had taken up a position behind the settlers, began to fire at the Palestinians.
Lutfi Sabry, an 18-year-old, was one of those killed by the Israeli military in the incident. His profoundly grieved father Mohammed commented the next day, “Their own kids are really valuable to them but other people’s kids are worthless.”
“There is no justification whatsoever to shed the blood of the Palestinian people like this,” Sabry said. “They attack us without provocation, and when the young people go to defend women and children, they are shot by the army. The bitter truth is that the world is watching the bloodshed of the Palestinian people without doing anything about it.”
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In another incident, resident Afi Hamayel was sheltering his extended family in his home, including his six children, when the attack ensued. The settler-terrorists threw homemade “petrol bombs” into his car and home through windows setting fire to both.
As the home burned, his neighbor “ran down the hillside” from his home to help evacuate Hamayel’s family—20 persons in all—and bring them to his residence.
“He was helping me evacuate the children. He took them to his house and he was coming back when the army shot him in the head,” Hamayel said. The 35-year-old neighbor was listed as one of the fatalities that day.
The Israeli army claimed they came under live fire during the incident, but, according to The Guardian, “that was adamantly denied by residents, the IDF produced no evidence, and there were no reports of any injuries among the settler assailants.”
Yesterday, June 25, over 100 settlers attacked the village of Kfar Malek in the presence of soldiers, set several homes on fire, and apparently shot live fire. According to reports from the Red Crescent, three Palestinians were killed and several more were severely injured.… pic.twitter.com/I7uACgnB3f
— Yesh Din English (@Yesh_Din) June 25, 2025
Another report by Catholic News Agency highlights the same pattern of Israeli terrorist violence exacted upon, “the last remaining town in the West Bank inhabited entirely by Christians.”
“The town, which the Gospel of John (11:54) refers to as ‘Ephraim’ — the place Jesus withdrew to before his passion — is no longer safe for its people today,” said Fr. Bahar Fawadleh, parish priest of the Church of Christ the Redeemer in Taybeh, located east of Ramallah. “We do not live in peace but in daily fear and siege.”
The land of the town has been systematically infiltrated with illegal Israeli-settler “outposts” upon land confiscated by the groups, and its people have often been subjected to similar arson attacks upon their crops, theft of equipment, and the violent prevention of the Christian families from reaching their agricultural fields in order to reap their harvest.
These aggressions are recognized by the Christian locals “as part of a systematic effort to strangle them economically and push them out,” explained the priest.
Religious Zionist settler violence common in Israeli occupied West Bank
Such violence perpetrated by these terrorist settlers is in no way rare in the West Bank. During the calendar year of 2024, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) logged about 1,420 incidents of Israeli settler violence. “These incidents include settlers reportedly killing five Palestinians, including a child, and injuring 360 other Palestinians, including 35 children, and vandalising more than 26,100 Palestinian-owned trees.”
by the way, today another attack happened in masafer yatta. the victim, qussai, 17, isn’t an oscar winner, so people won’t hear about it, but here’s the video of masked settlers beating him with metal rods as his mom screams in the background, just in case pic.twitter.com/7Wh16Ugg7J
— Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם (@yuval_abraham) March 28, 2025
Amnesty International had described these attacks as “part of a decades long state-backed campaign to dispossess, displace and oppress Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, under Israel’s system of apartheid.”
“Israeli forces have a track record of enabling settler violence and it is outrageous that once again Israeli forces stood by and in some cases took part in these brutal attacks,” states an April 2024 report.
Colonial ‘settlers’ espouse ideology of Jewish supremacy, ethnic cleansing, building of third Temple
Jewish “settlers” in the West Bank are most often associated with the influential international heresy of religious Zionism which embraces an ideology of radical Jewish supremacy and thus a justification for the horrendous violent crimes of ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian people as a means of taking over the Holy Land and building an exclusive Jewish ethno-state.
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With the takeover of the land complete they aim to build a third temple for animal sacrifice in Jerusalem and welcome their Moshiach (Messiah) of whom their expectations share a close alignment with what Catholic authorities expect from the Antichrist. And from Jerusalem, these religious Zionists anticipate this figure to subject all other peoples under Noahide Laws, vanquishing Christianity as “idolatry,” and even executing the death penalty against Christians for this supposed crime.
The illegal settler communities also enjoy indirect financial support from billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars which support Israel’s military forces and thus serve to assist settlers and settlements to effectively expand in the West Bank. Private American interests also provide significant funds to further develop illegal settlements, paramilitary groups and IDF units which operate in Gaza and the West Bank as well.
In July of last year the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s 58-year military occupation of internationally recognized Palestinian territory was illegal under international law. The United Nations General Assembly followed-up on this ruling in September overwhelmingly passing a resolution demanding Israel end its illegal occupation of these territories, including the evacuation of their settlements on the West Bank, within 12 months.
The unanimous and constant voices of the Catholic and Orthodox bishops in the region have characterized Israel’s illegal occupation of these Palestinian territories as the “root” aggression of the conflict, an ongoing “sin” that must be resisted and remedied should there be any hope of peace in the region.
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