In the early hours of Tuesday morning, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers torched a vehicle belonging to the family of slain Palestinian student Saji Darwish, 18, in the village of Beitin, near Ramallah in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
The attack is part of a broader campaign of colonizer violence targeting Palestinian civilians and property, often carried out under the protection of Israeli military forces.
Eyewitnesses reported that the colonizers infiltrated the village before dawn and set fire to the parked vehicle outside the Darwish family home.
Local residents intervened quickly, repelling the attackers and preventing further damage. The incident occurred amid heightened colonizer activity across the region, with similar assaults reported in other towns and villages.
The targeted vehicle belonged to the family of Saji Darwish, a journalism student at Birzeit University who was shot and killed by Israeli forces in 2014 while returning home from campus.
His death became a symbol of the risks faced by Palestinian youth under occupation and remains a rallying point for student and community resistance.
The attack is emblematic of the impunity with which colonizer violence continues across the West Bank.
Human rights groups have documented a surge in such attacks, including home invasions, crop destruction, and physical assaults, often with no accountability.
“This was not just an act of vandalism—it was a message,” said a Beitin resident. “They want to erase our memory, our martyrs, and our will to resist. But we will not be silenced.”
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the attack and called on international bodies to intervene.
