Israeli settlers burn Palestinian West Bank village in mass attack | BBC News

At least one Palestinian was been killed after dozens of armed Israeli settlers, some wearing masks, attacked a village in the occupied West Bank, setting fire to houses and cars.

The settlers threw rocks and Molotov cocktails in the village of Jit, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

The Palestinian health ministry said Rashid Sedda, 22, was killed by gunfire from the settlers and another man was seriously wounded in what it condemned as an act of “organised state terrorism”. The IDF said it was looking into the reports of a fatality. Israel’s prime minister said that he viewed the incident with “utmost severity”.

It is the latest in the series of attacks by extremist settlers on Palestinian villages in the West Bank, where there has been a spike in violence since Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel on 7 October and the ensuing war in Gaza.

Around 160 settlements housing some 700,000 Jews have been built since Israel occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Lucy Williamson.

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[giamartube]

Why do you keep calling them settlers? They are terrorists. Be fair for once. Use the right terms, be journalists.

[The-Man-Right-Chea]

😮😮😮 Stop calling them extremists settlers and call them what they are, and that's terrrrorist. whenever Palestinians defend themselves they report it as a terrrrorist attack

[omaral-falahi]

The whole world must act to stop this genocide

[HypatiaMuse]

The U.S. and UK have enabled these crimes for decades.

[bayzidahammed]

"You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house,
take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother,
bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all,
but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back." - Noam Chomsky

[naymatunc-rcvs]

Another investigation without a result

[immylon]

Oh, If BBC is talking about israel's wrong doing, then it's really severe.

[hp]

Isreal took the wrong lessons from Germany.

[utubebroadcaster]

This stuff also happened in the 1930s. Why is it acceptable now?

[SadaK-trdm]

Is this not a terrorist attack, BBC?
Or do you decide that based on the skin colour of the people?

[lexruptor]

Genocide, why can't you just call it what it is and say Genocide?!

[charlycat]

They’re not “settlers” - they’re land grabbers

[UltraMaccabi_Natzis]

It's been going since they enter someone's land 75 years before

[Uthopemus]

Land thieves being called settlers to make it palatable and acceptable. This is infuriating.

[mkyanto]

Freedom humanity free world from israel

[tamilhoney]

Why is USA silent on this genocide in West Bank

[ValkyriZ]

Israel launched through investigation - oh the irony !! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[eskimojoe]

Shame on the uk shame on the USA it’s over for Israel now the world has woken up

[Vietrorsa]

This is unbearable and unacceptable. #FreePalestine

[tataritka]

Everyone who supported Israel no matter what, who vetoed any resolution against illegal settlements, who on cameras was saying we believe in two state solutions but sending money to Israel which was used to build settlements, everyone who doesn't condemned Israeli government when it's encouraged brutality towards Palestinians and use Genocidal language is guilty of it.