‹ Back

Toggle Daily

Israeli settlers attack a Palestinian village, halting a family's court-ordered return home

September 29, 2026

Israeli settlers riot in Jalud and stop troops from escorting the Tubasi family back to a home they were driven from in July, despite a court order.

The Tubasi family was driven in July from its home in Jalud, a Palestinian village near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, and the high court ordered its safe return by 20 September.

Key facts

BBC reports that more than 100 Israeli settlers attacked Jalud, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, and turned back a family the Israeli military was escorting home to houses settlers had taken weeks earlier. Haaretz, citing the IDF, puts the crowd at about 150 and places the rioting overnight into Tuesday. The Financial Times reports that the violence started on Monday night as the Tubasi family attempted to move back into their house near Nablus, which repeated settler attacks had forced them to leave in July. The military said, according to The Straits Times, "Due to the violence, the mission to return the family to their homes was not completed."

BBC reports that the high court had ordered the family brought home safely by 20 September, more than a week before the attack, in a ruling that faulted Israeli authorities for not stopping settler violence; The New York Times carries the same ruling. According to BBC and The Jerusalem Post, the Israeli military said three police officers suffered light injuries and a security forces vehicle took damage. The New York Times reports that Israeli police announced three arrests and an investigation, and the Financial Times carries the arrests too. Al Jazeera reports that settlers went after two Tubasi family homes and, citing local sources, describes a separate assault on Tuesday in Qaryut, which lies south of Nablus, where settlers forced their way into an elderly Palestinian woman's home and attacked her.

The headlines add their own emphasis. The Financial Times's describes more than 100 Israelis rampaging through a Palestinian town, Al Jazeera's calls the assault on Jalud a pogrom, and The Times of Israel's has Netanyahu calling for the heaviest penalties against the rioters. The outlets agree on the attack, the halted return, the injured officers and the three arrests. The police investigation remains open, and the court-ordered return of the family is still incomplete.

The military said: "Due to the violence, the mission to return the family to their homes was not completed."

the military

Still developing

The account of the police investigation into the Jalud attack had not moved as of this draft.

How settled the reporting is

Reported 100% · Contested 0% · Developing 0%

Sources

Toggle read the full reports of 8 of the 9 outlets counted on this event. The other 1 are counted from their headlines and opening sentences.