Overview
- Local officials and residents said more than two dozen masked settlers attacked Al-Tuwani overnight, setting Al-Taqwa mosque, two houses and a dairy factory on fire and spray-painting Hebrew graffiti.
- Israeli police said officers were deployed to the village, reported damage including a burned vehicle and a prayer-room door, and opened an investigation though no public arrests have been reported.
- Villagers and an activist said the assault unfolded in view of a nearby Israeli military watchtower, while residents and civil defence teams extinguished some fires and inspected charred prayer carpets and entrances.
- Separate reports said heavy Israeli forces' firing in Deir Qaddis ignited blazes that burned dozens of olive trees, damaging harvests and farmers' access to land.
- The attack is cited by Palestinian officials and UN monitors as part of an 'unprecedented' rise in settler violence since the Gaza war, raising fears of further loss of property, livelihoods and increased displacement risk in the South Hebron Hills.