Video still: CBC News report.
CBC News reports: “A Canadian activist injured in a settler attack over the weekend in a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank says she and three others were thrown on the ground and beaten by settlers before some of their wallets and passports were stolen.”
“The woman, who is from British Columbia, said she and three other foreigners from Italy had arrived less than a week before the early Sunday morning attack at a home in Ein al-Duyuk, roughly four kilometres north of the West Bank city of Jericho.”
“The group of foreign activists were then helped by locals and taken to a nearby hospital where they were treated. Despite the attack, the woman says they want to return to the village to continue their work.”
The article adds: “The activists are working with a Palestinian group that allows foreigners to stay in communities within the West Bank where settler violence has been reported. The woman says they aim to keep watch over the villages during the day and at night, aiming to deter settler attacks through their presence.”
The Canadian, who is not being identified for safety reasons, has highlighted: “This is not about us. We were beaten for 15 minutes. Palestinians here endure this violence every day, every hour, a thousand-fold.”
The CBC News article also reports: “About 94 per cent of all investigation files opened by the Israeli Police into settler violence from 2005 to 2024 ended without indictment, according to monitoring by Israeli human rights group Yesh Din. Since 2005, just three per cent of the investigation files opened into settler violence led to full or partial convictions.”
The Guardian article on the attack notes: “According to UN figures, Israeli settlers and security forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians, including 233 children, in the West Bank over the past two years, in what many Israeli and Palestinian observers believe is a concerted campaign of violence aimed at seizing territory.”
On October 24, 2025, Amnesty International noted: “In 2025, there have been over 860 violent settler attacks in the West Bank. World Leaders have a legal obligation to dismantle Israel’s unlawful occupation and to bring its system of apartheid to an end.”
Despite these numbers CTV News now reports: “In total, so far, Ottawa has imposed sanctions against 15 individuals and seven entities for “participating or facilitating extremist settler violence.”
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Additional reading: International Solidarity Movement volunteer Ayşenur Eygi, 26, killed by the Israeli military in Beita, Palestine (PBI-Canada article, September 7, 2024)
