Violent settlers and soldiers attack in the Al-Khalayel area of Al-Mughayyir village

Al-Khalayleh Community (al-Mughayyir area) is a small, family-based Palestinian community located on the eastern outskirts of al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. It is not an officially recognized village, but a cluster of homes and agricultural lands belonging to families of the Khalayleh clan, who are part of al-Mughayyir socially and administratively. The area lies largely in Area C and is close to Israeli settler outposts, making it especially vulnerable. Residents depend mainly on farming and grazing and face frequent settler attacks, land destruction, intimidation, and threats of displacement, often occurring during or alongside Israeli military presence.

Al-Mughayyer has faced intensified settler and military violence in recent months. Notably, on August 22–23, 2025, the Israeli army uprooted thousands of olive trees east of the village on orders from Major General Avi Bluth, head of Israel’s Central Command, described at the time as collective punishment. Similar settler attacks and tree uprootings have continued, often coordinated with military raids, targeting both the eastern and western sides of the village.

List of settlements and outposts near Al-Mugghayyir:

1. 1998: Adei Ad -> Early outpost linked to settler pressure near Rast Ramallah region
2. 2015:Malachi HaShalom -> Core outpost affecting al‑Mughayyir and Duma
3. 2020: Rashash Farm -> Expansion of Malachi HaShalom presence
4. 2023: Rosh HaTe’ina -> Continued expansion of farm outposts
5. 2023: (July) Tent outpost near al‑Qaboun -> Informal site east of al‑Mughayyir
6. Feb 2025: Jebe’it Pastoral Outpost -> New site on al‑Mughayyir land
7. May 25, 2025: al‑Qala’ Outpost -> Pastoral outpost established
8. May–June 2025: Tent outpost near village Another informal site near al‑Mughayyir

On December 7, 2025:

In the early hours of Sunday, December 7, 2025, at around 1:40 a.m., eight masked Israeli settlers armed with clubs attacked the Abu Hamam (Abu Naim) family home on the outskirts of al-Mughayyer village, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

The attack injured six people: Riziq Abu Naim (13), Fadda Abu Naim (59), and four international solidarity activists from the UK, France, and Colombia–US. All sustained bruises and head and body wounds and were evacuated to Ramallah Hospital. During the assault, settlers threatened to return and burn the family’s homes if they did not leave the area within two days.

The attack occurred shortly after an Israeli military raid on the village and ended before the army withdrew. During and after the assault, Israeli soldiers prevented medics and residents from reaching the injured, threatening medics with arrest. The military raid involved patrols only and no arrests.

According to Mistaclim:

“You have two days to leave, or we will kill you.”

Zionist settlers issue death threats to a Palestinian family and foreign peace activists in coordinated terror attack near Ramallah

At dawn today, armed Zionist Israeli settler militias launched a violent attack in the Al-Khalayleh area of Al-Mughayyir village (Ramallah district in the occupied West Bank), targeting a Palestinian family and four foreign peace activists (Italian, British, and American).

Settlers stormed the home and farm of the Abu Hammam Rizq Abu Naim family in a white pickup, brutally beating the child Rizq Hammam on the head, assaulting his mother, breaking one foreign activist’s arm, attacking solidarity volunteers with sticks, and stealing activists’ phones. The attack unfolded under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, who sealed off village entrances, allowed settlers to freely carry out the attack, and blocked Palestinian ambulances from reaching the wounded.

For hours, the Silwad ambulance crew was detained at the Beit El military barrier while transporting injured victims; occupation soldiers later vandalized and destroyed the interior of the municipal ambulance and abducted ambulance officer Ahed Smeirat.

An elderly resident, Fida Rizq, testified: “When they saw me, they brutally struck me on the head with a tile, threw me to the ground, and started to brutally beat me with sticks. They told us: ‘You have only two days to leave; if we see you here, we will burn you in the house and kill all of you.’”

On December 8, 2025:

Israeli forces carried out a brutal attack on Palestinian villages and farmers. Settlers are stealing the barns and tents of farmers and shepherds in the al-Khalayel area.

On December 10 and 11, 2025:

A teenager from Israeli settler community deliberately ran over a French peace activist in the Al-Khalayel area, causing her injuries. In the same area, settlers pointed rifles loaded with live ammunition at peace activists.

Later that night, Israeli forces kidnapped two foreign activists, an American and an Australian, and declared the area a closed military zone, ordering all solidarity activists to evacuate within one hour under threat of arrest.