A group of between 30 and 50 Israeli settlers raided the village of At-Tuwani south of Hebron early Sunday, setting fire to the Al-Taqwa mosque, a dairy factory and two homes, a day after a Palestinian teenage footballer died from wounds sustained in a separate settler attack.
The assailants, who entered from the Maon Hill settlement outpost after midnight, sprayed Hebrew graffiti including the words "revenge" and "administrative detention" on the mosque and residential walls. Israeli soldiers present at the scene reportedly stood by without intervening. The dairy facility served women in nearby Masafer Yatta communities.
The Israel Police opened an investigation into the circumstances of the incident. Violence in the occupied West Bank has intensified sharply since October 2023, with at least 1,088 Palestinians killed by soldiers or settlers and at least 46 Israelis killed over the same period.