“They hit me in the back with a gun, and a settler stomped on my back.” A Palestinian child from Beita, south of Nablus, sobs as he describes how Israeli occupation soldiers detained and beat him after Israeli colonial terrorists stormed the town.
On November 9, 2026, dozens of Israeli colonists attacked Beita’s industrial area from several directions and set fire to everything in their path, burning ten vehicles, bulldozers and heavy machinery used by the town’s stone-cutting workshops, with initial losses estimated at hundreds of thousands of shekels. Instead of stopping the attackers, the occupation army turned on the town’s residents, and this boy was among those who paid for it. Beita has faced near-daily raids and colonist attacks throughout the olive harvest. In October alone, the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission documented 1,369 colonist attacks across the West Bank, more than double the month before, and 31 Palestinians have been shot dead by colonists since the start of the year.
Mike