West Bank village of al‑Mughayyir endures weekly settler attacks

In al‑Mughayyir, a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers have repeatedly attacked homes, repeatedly smashing the gate of the Abu Alia family compound with clubs and tear‑gas rounds. Israeli army and border police units move through the streets as residents try to block roads with rocks, while gunfire is heard in the village. The confrontations have become a weekly frontline in the broader push to expand Israeli settlements, which now number over 100 and house more than half a million Israelis on land Palestinians envision for a future state.

The violence is part of a pattern of settler‑initiated assaults across the West Bank that rarely receives wider coverage, despite its impact on local families, medical workers and journalists who have been shot during Israeli military operations.