LONDON: The morning after Israeli settlers descended on Khirbet Al-Tuba, a small shepherding community in the Masafer Yatta area of the occupied West Bank, the silence was broken only by the crunch of ash underfoot. Three homes had been reduced to blackened shells and several defaced with Hebrew graffiti. The community’s solar panels — the hamlet’s only source of electricity — lay smashed on the ground. Families who had spent the night fleeing flames were left to survey what remained. “The settlers started throwing stones.

Five Palestinians, including a woman and a child, were wounded; the IDF found burned structures, graffiti and destroyed property, while police entered under military protection to…

The IDF and police are investigating a suspected arson attack on Palestinian homes in the West Bank village of Tuba. Several people were reportedly injured, and suspects fled the…