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Israeli settlers carried out a series of attacks on Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank in late September 2026, including torching vehicles and attempting to burn a house in Turmus Ayya and Abu Falah near Ramallah, and smashing cars and damaging an ambulance in al-Mughayyir while Israeli border police reportedly looked on without intervening. Separately, settlers have been diverting water from West Bank springs away from Palestinian farmland as part of a broader push by Israel's government to expand control over the territory, including heritage-site takeovers. Israel's attorney general also ordered a one-month postponement of a controversial E1 settlement construction tender—covering over 1,200 housing units near Jerusalem—to prevent it from being used for electioneering ahead of upcoming elections. Together these incidents highlight escalating settler violence and land appropriation in the West Bank amid rising political tensions in Israel.