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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Settlers rampage through Palestinian towns in fury over Gaza deal</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time">January 20, 2025<br></div>
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settlers target Palestinian vehicles and block key roads in areas
including Turmus Ayya, ‘Atara, Ein Siniya, Ein Ayoub, Qalqilya, and
Jaba’.</p><div><ul><li>
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A screengarb from a video showing settlers setting fire to
two homes and at least four vehicles in the village of Sinjil. (Social
media)
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<p>Israeli settlers, accompanied by Israeli occupation forces, stormed
multiple Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank on Sunday evening,
expressing outrage over a <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hamas-commitment-to-gaza-deal-contingent-on--israel-s---abu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gaza ceasefire deal</a> widely perceived as a defeat for the Israeli entity.</p>
<p>The settlers targeted Palestinian vehicles and blocked key roads in
areas including Turmus Ayya, ‘Atara, Ein Siniya, Ein Ayoub, Qalqilya,
and Jaba’.</p>
<p>In Sinjil, <em>WAFA news agency</em> reported that two Palestinian
homes and four vehicles were set on fire. Social media footage captured
settlers throwing stones and Molotov cocktails during their attacks.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">⚡️ Settler gangs set fire to Palestinian vehicles
in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah in the West Bank, and threw
stones at Palestinians, injuring one. <a href="https://t.co/wVIoA3mwLH">pic.twitter.com/wVIoA3mwLH</a></p>
— Warfare Analysis (@warfareanalysis) <a href="https://twitter.com/warfareanalysis/status/1881052114434343294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>The assaults occurred just hours before "Israel" released the first
group of Palestinian detainees—69 women and 21 children—in exchange for
three Israeli captives as part of a truce agreement between the
Palestinian Resistance Hamas and "Israel". The deal aimed to end
"Israel's" 15-month-long war on Gaza.</p>
<p>Far-right Israelis denounced the ceasefire, demanding the
continuation of the military offensive against Gaza. Ahead of the
agreement, Israeli Security Minister <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/katz-to-set-loose-israeli-settlers-held-in-administrative-de" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel Katz</a>
ordered the release of all 16 settlers under administrative detention
for their involvement in attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West
Bank. Katz justified the decision, saying it was intended “to convey a
clear message of strengthening and encouraging the settlements.”</p>
<p>Reacting to Sunday’s violence, the Yesh Din group condemned the lack
of accountability for settler aggression, stating, “Settler violence
against innocent Palestinians without a response” reflects the message
conveyed by Katz and the Tel Aviv regime “when they seek to ‘strengthen
and encourage’ the settlements.”</p>
<h2>Settlers establish base layer on Palestinian land for new illegal outpost</h2>
<p>In a related context, the Palestinian<span> </span><em>WAFA</em><span> </span>news
agency reported that a group of Israeli settlers laid Friday a layer of
base course on land belonging to the village of al-Naqura, northwest of
Nablus.</p>
<p>Hashim Mohsen, the head of the al-Naqura Village Council, told<span> </span><em>WAFA</em><span> </span>that the settlers have taken this step as preparation for placing caravans and establishing a colonial outpost on village land.</p>
<p>According to Mohsen, the settlers had previously bulldozed
agricultural land owned by several Palestinian residents in the Ain
Qibla area.</p>
<p>He pointed out that the settlers threatened that any attempts to
approach the land would result in the destruction of all nearby
greenhouses owned by local farmers, adding that the targeted area lies
just 50 meters away from Palestinian homes.</p>
<p>Israeli settlers in the area routinely target Palestinian farmers,
stealing their crops and water pumps while damaging irrigation systems,
Mohsen noted.</p>
<p>Following the events of October 7, 2023, attacks by settlers in the
occupied West Bank have significantly intensified, with settlers
establishing new outposts under the tacit approval of the Israeli
government.</p>
<p>Murad Ishtiwi, Director of the Colonization and Wall Resistance
Commission in the northern West Bank, stressed that the Israeli
government’s plan to increase the settler population in the northern
West Bank to one million by 2050 reflects a deliberate strategy of
gradual "annexation".</p>
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