“Anyone who can protest the sinful conduct of the members of his household and does not, he himself is apprehended for the sins of the members of his household and punished. If he is in a position to protest the sinful conduct of the people of his town, and he fails to do so, he is apprehended for the sins of the people of his town.”—Babylonian Talmud,  Shabbat 54b

On July 11, a group of Israeli settlers killed two Palestinians during an attack north of Ramallah. According to PA’s health ministry, Annas Abu El Ezz, 23-year-old Saif al-Din Kamil Abdul Karim Musalat “died after being severely beaten all over his body by settlers in the town of Sinjil.” A second man, 23-year-old Mohammad Shalabi, was fatally shot by settlers. Both Shulabi and Musalat were residents of al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya, and Musalat was a dual Palestinian-American citizen

This murderous episode is not a one-off. Recent attacks by settlers and hilltop youth have increased dramatically in the past year. The violence includes murdering innocent Arabs living in proximity to Israeli settlements, torching their homes and cars, and slashing their tires. There is also footage of settlers expelling Palestinian farmers from their fields in the village of Shuqba, near Ramallah, on June 28, 2025.  On June 25 three Palestinians were shot dead and seven more were injured during a settler rampage in the West Bank village of Kafr Malik. Over 100 settlers

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