(LifeSiteNews) — As part of an escalating strategy of violence against native Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Jewish terrorists from illegal Israeli settlements have again attacked the ancient Christian town of Taybeh, setting its agricultural fields ablaze and seeking to burn down homes, with reports of open fire upon these civilians as well.
This last fully Christian town in the West Bank has been the target of ongoing terror attacks due to the establishment of a new Israeli colony “settlement” nearby from where these attacks are launched.
Palestinian Christian and human rights activist Ihab Hassan has reported the Israeli terrorists are “setting fields on fire, hurling Molotov cocktails at homes, and attempting to set the village gas station ablaze.”
BREAKING: Israeli settlers are attacking the Christian village of Taybeh right now — setting fields on fire, hurling Molotov cocktails at homes, and attempting to set the village gas station ablaze.https://t.co/QiOAbofNdn pic.twitter.com/gRiVuJX0Rz
— Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) June 9, 2026
Citing sources within the town itself, Hassan posted that the residents are “terrified” as “fires are surrounding the village, and settlers opened fire on homes and civilians.”
He also reported that the Israeli army, which has a duty under international law to protect these civilians, “has now raided the village and is firing stun grenades.”
Taybeh, which is identified in the Gospel of John (11:54) as “Ephraim,” the place where Jesus Christ withdrew before His Passion, has endured repeated Israeli settler terrorist attacks over the past year.
In July 2025, masked settlers on horseback grazed livestock on private lands, set fires near the 5th-century Church of St. George and cemetery, destroyed farmland, and terrorized residents.
Local priests from Greek Orthodox, Latin, and Melkite churches described an ongoing “siege” aimed at economic strangulation and displacement. Holy Land bishops (Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem) condemned the “climate of impunity,” charged Israeli authorities with facilitating repeated Israeli settler terrorist attacks upon Christians and other Palestinians, and demanded international action and accountability from Israeli authorities.
Following advocacy by Jason Jones, U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee visited Taybeh on July 19, 2025, denouncing the attacks as “terror” and demanding prosecution of perpetrators, yet attacks persisted unimpeded by Israeli authorities.
Israeli officials corroborate, condemn ‘Jewish terror’ in West Bank
These ongoing assaults, which have been sharply escalating since Israel’s retaliatory genocidal war against the Gaza Strip began in October 2023, have elicited high-level condemnations from some Israeli authorities.
In July 2024, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert confirmed the assertion by the bishops above that the present Israeli government was indeed supporting Jewish settler terrorist attacks against native Palestinians, including Christians, with the goal of ethnically cleansing the region of non-Jews.
Writing in an opinion piece published in Haaretz at the time, Olmert announced:
I am warning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: The day is drawing near when arrest warrants will be issued against you for the crimes being carried out every day in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) by Israel, with the support of its government, while you intentionally turn a blind eye to it…
Here crimes are committed on a daily basis, not by soldiers and not against soldiers, but by rioters who are Israeli citizens, Arab haters, with the clear intention of expelling them from their homes and the villages where they have lived all their lives.
Later in August 2024, the Times of Israel reported that Ronen Bar, head of Shin Bet (Israeli internal security ministries), warned that “Jewish terror carried out by violent settlers and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s actions on Temple Mount are doing ‘indescribable damage’ to Israel.”
Former Defense Minister: ‘Jewish pogromists’ turning nation into ‘Judeo-Nazis’
More recently, in March, Israeli MK Meirav Cohen delivered a speech in the Knesset condemning the “Jewish terror” which has been escalating in the West Bank where “villages are being attacked, communities are being driven from their homes with premeditation, sheep are being slaughtered, orchards are being burned, (and) people are attacked for the mere fact of being Arab.”
Ms. Cohen further charged Israeli government officials with helping facilitate these crimes through obfuscation, encouragement or ensuring “the terrorists don’t get arrested, all of these people are responsible for this terror no less than those terrorists from the hilltops.”
Additionally, in late January, Israeli former defense minister Moshe Yaalon condemned “Jewish pogromists attacking Palestinians” in the West Bank and lamenting that “not a single Jewish terrorist has been arrested” for committing these ongoing crimes.
He warned that the “ideology of ‘Jewish supremacy’… has become dominant in the Israeli government, (and) reminds one of Nazi racial theory” which, with the violence exercised against Palestinians, is turning the nation into “Judeo-Nazis.”
In a recent presentation by Jewish American journalist Katie Halper, the podcaster develops this theme with sorrow and far more detail, concluding:
I’ve spent the last year-and-a-half interviewing Holocaust survivors who are themselves speaking out against the genocide Israel is currently perpetuating. How can we be bystanders to a genocide when genocide exterminated so many of our people? Never again doesn’t just require us not to commit genocide. It requires us not to be silent. We must speak out. We cannot be silent bystanders. Never again is now.
“It brings me no pleasure to compare what Israel is doing to what the Nazis did, but how can we not? When you have things like ghettos, starvation, concentration camps and planned systematic extermination of people”
Jewish journalist @kthalps
CC: LBC @lewis_goodall @hasanthehun pic.twitter.com/mD84PLUsEw
— Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) June 8, 2026
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