(30 Jun 2025)
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Kafr Malik, West Bank – 30 June 2025
1. Various of European Union representatives and Palestinian officials visiting the West Bank town of Kafr Malik after three Palestinians were killed and property was set on fire last week
2. Pan left from a house to European Union representatives and Palestinian officials
3. European Union representatives and Palestinian officials next to burned vehicle
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexandre Stutzmann, EU representative in the West Bank and Gaza Strip:
"Our first purpose here was to come as a visit of solidarity out of a feeling of humanity. We’ve all seen what has happened a few days ago in Kafr Malik, and what we saw is saddening, but it’s also revolting because it’s unacceptable. We cannot accept pure violence for the sake of violence."
5. European Union representatives and Palestinian officials
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexandre Stutzmann, EU representative in the West Bank and Gaza Strip:
"As a European Union, we have a very clear position on that (Israeli settlers attacks). We have denounced that, and we are calling on the Israeli authorities to prevent these actions from happening and to bring to justice those violent attacks, the authors (perpetrators) of those violent attacks, because this cannot remain unpunished."
7. Wide of diplomats and locals gathering next to a burned car
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Laila Ghannam, Governor of Ramallah:
"Our message today, loud and clear is: We will not be expelled from our homeland, and with the voice of every mother and every child, the European Union, the whole world who speaks about human rights, freedoms and the rights of children to have recreational activities – we are asking you for our right to live. We want to live."
9. Various of European Union representatives and Palestinian officials visiting and meeting residents
10. European Union representatives and Palestinian officials next to burned vehicle
11. Wide of Israeli military vehicle
12. Skyline of Kafr Malik
STORYLINE:
Ambassadors and diplomatic representatives from the Palestinian Authority visited on Monday the West Bank town where three Palestinians were killed and property was set on fire last week.
More than 100 settlers on last Wednesday evening entered the West Bank town of Kfar Malik, setting property ablaze and opening fire on Palestinians who tried to stop them.
Alexandre Stutzmann, the EU representative in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, denounced the settler violence, and demanded justice for the victims.
"This cannot remain unpunished," Stutzmann stressed.
He also urged the Israeli government to take further action against the several settler attacks which have increased recently.
On Sunday, dozens of Israeli settlers rampaged around a military base in the West Bank, setting fires, vandalizing military vehicles, spraying graffiti and attacking soldiers, the military said.
Sunday night’s unrest came after several attacks in the West Bank carried out by Jewish settlers and anger at their arrests by security forces attempting to contain the violence over the past few days.
Over the past two years of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Palestinian residents in the West Bank have reported a major increase in Israeli checkpoints and delays across the territory.
Israel, meanwhile, says threats from the West Bank against its citizens are on the rise.
Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, and Palestinians want all three territories for their future state.
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