(LifeSiteNews) — A cohort of Israeli settlers again attacked the Christian village of Taybeh in the West Bank, setting cars ablaze, throwing stones at homes, and scrawling intimidating graffiti on walls in the latest episode of an ongoing siege against the town.

Despite U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s recent visit to Taybeh, the last fully Christian town in the West Bank, during which he condemned the violence against the town and called for “harsh consequences” for the perpetrators, aggressors struck the village again.

Early Monday morning, according to several local reports, Israeli settlers assailed homes with stones, attempted to set one house afire, threatened the inhabitants with graffiti messages, and torched three cars, including one belonging to a Christian journalist and one belonging to a village council member.

BREAKING: At 2:30 AM Palestine time, a group of Israeli settlers stormed the Christian village of Taybeh, near Ramallah in the West Bank—setting vehicles on fire, hurling rocks at homes, and spraying hateful graffiti on the walls.

As a result of the attack, two cars were set… pic.twitter.com/rFs35f8pj4

— Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) July 28, 2025

Several Hebrew speakers said the newly painted graffiti at Taybeh, a photo of which was posted to X by Palestinian Christian Ihab Hassan, translates to some version of “you will regret it.”

German Ambassador to Israel Steffen Seibert condemned the attacks, stating Monday, “Whether the target is a Christian village or a Muslim community, these extremist settlers may claim divine mandate, but in truth they are criminals, strangers to any authentic faith.”

The Forum of Holy Land Christians also released a statement Monday decrying the terrorist attack and demanding an “in-depth investigation by an international neutral body,” accountability for the terrorists, and actions against those who incite the terrorists.​

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The Forum of Holy Land Christians has released a statement on this morning’s terror attack by Israeli settlers against Christians in Taybeh

They detail the attack which saw cars set on fire and anti Christian graffiti sprayed on walls pic.twitter.com/ccxyYFS0os

— Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) July 28, 2025

Vatican News reported that the attackers are part of an extremist Israeli group called “Hilltop Youth,” known for setting up illegal outposts on Palestinian territory and committing violence against Palestinians and their land.

According to terrorism expert Ami Pedahzur, Hilltop Youth adhere to a “Kahanist” worldview, endorsing “deportation, revenge, and annihilation of Gentiles that posed a threat to the people of Israel.”

Amid their last attack on Taybeh, the Israeli settlers reportedly set fire near the towns’ cemetery and the historic Church of St. George (Al-Khadr), one of the oldest religious landmarks in Palestine.

Father Bahar Fawadleh, parish priest of the Church of Christ the Redeemer in Taybeh, located east of Ramallah, recently, lamented, “We do not live in peace but in daily fear and siege.”

The aggressions by Israeli settlers against the town’s citizens, which include arson attacks upon crops and theft of equipment, are recognized by the Christian locals “as part of a systematic effort to strangle them economically and push them out,” the priest explained.

Religious Zionist settler violence common in Israeli occupied West Bank

Such violence perpetrated by these terrorist settlers is in no way rare in the West Bank. During the calendar year of 2024, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) logged about 1,420 incidents of Israeli settler violence. “These incidents include settlers reportedly killing five Palestinians, including a child, and injuring 360 other Palestinians, including 35 children, and vandalising more than 26,100 Palestinian-owned trees.”

Amnesty International described these attacks as “part of a decades long state-backed campaign to dispossess, displace and oppress Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, under Israel’s system of apartheid.”

“Israeli forces have a track record of enabling settler violence and it is outrageous that once again Israeli forces stood by and in some cases took part in these brutal attacks,” an April 2024 report states.

Commentators have called out the Israeli government for failing to hold these settlers accountable for their ongoing, unprovoked acts of violence and terror against these Palestinians.

Colonial ‘settlers’ espouse ideology of Jewish supremacy, ethnic cleansing, building of third Temple

Jewish “settlers” in the West Bank are most often associated with the influential international heresy of religious Zionism which embraces an ideology of radical Jewish supremacy and thus a justification for the horrendous violent crimes of ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian people as a means of taking over the Holy Land and building an exclusive Jewish ethno-state.

With the takeover of the land complete they aim to build a third temple for animal sacrifice in Jerusalem and welcome their Moshiach (Messiah) of whom their expectations share a close alignment with what Catholic authorities expect from the Antichrist. And from Jerusalem, these religious Zionists anticipate this figure to subject all other peoples under Noahide Laws, vanquishing Christianity as “idolatry,” and even executing the death penalty against Christians for this supposed crime.

The illegal settler communities also enjoy indirect financial support from billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars which support Israel’s military forces and thus serve to assist settlers and settlements to effectively expand in the West Bank. Private American interests also provide significant funds to further develop illegal settlements, paramilitary groups and IDF units which operate in Gaza and the West Bank as well.

In July 2024, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s 58-year military occupation of internationally recognized Palestinian territory was illegal under international law. The United Nations General Assembly followed up on this ruling in September, overwhelmingly passing a resolution demanding Israel end its illegal occupation of these territories, including the evacuation of their settlements on the West Bank, within 12 months.

The unanimous and constant voices of the Catholic and Orthodox bishops in the region have characterized Israel’s illegal occupation of these Palestinian territories as the “root” aggression of the conflict, an ongoing “sin” that must be resisted and remedied should there be any hope of peace in the region.