When they searched the scene, Israeli security officials found assault weapons and incendiary materials hidden in the bushes, and seized them as evidence for the investigation. Israeli settlers establish three new outposts in West Bank Israeli settlers established three new outposts on Palestinian-owned land in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the Wafa news agency reported. Dozens of settlers erected a tent and brought water tanks and storage containers to Tel al-Asur, between the towns of al-Mughayyir and Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah, local sources told Wafa.
The sources said the area had faced escalating violent settler attacks, land seizures and settlement expansion. Settlers also established outposts on land belonging to Deir Istiya, north of Salfit, and Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah, earlier on Sunday. Settlers established 42 outposts on Palestinian-owned land in the first half of 2026, most of them pastoral, according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.
These included 13 in Hebron governorate, nine in Ramallah, eight in Nablus and four in Bethlehem. This file photo shows a general view of the newly established Israeli settlement outpost north of the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian West Bank on 16 July 2026 (AFP) TEHRAN – The West Bank is witnessing a sharp escalation in Israeli aggression, settlement expansion, and a high level of military battalions placing mounting pressure on the regime.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Two mosques in the Israeli-occupied West Bank were set on fire overnight in an apparent Israeli settler attack, officials said Sunday, after a spate of deadly violence that killed four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers. Palestinians and the Israeli opposition accuse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line government of turning a blind eye to attacks by settlers against Palestinians, which threaten to ignite widespread violence across the territory. Israeli soldiers and police fanned out across the West Bank after the attack, closing off major roads and blocking access to a hospital where it said two militants were hiding.
Israel also arrested more than 70 Palestinians over the weekend as they attempted to contain the escalating violence. Israel’s military says it condemns such incidents The mosques, in the villages of Qusra and Kour in the northern West Bank, suffered extensive damage in the fires. In Qusra, the attackers spray-painted “revenge Benayahu,” referring to one of the Israeli soldiers killed on Friday, and “the land of Israel is redeemed with blood.” The soldier lived in a nearby settlement.
Ahmed Abu Mahmoud, 64, who lives next to the Qusra mosque, said he heard noises at 3 a.m. and discovered the mosque had been set on fire. The fire was too large for him to fight on his own, so he called for help.
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