On Thursday, 25 December 2025, at around 12:30 P.M., a settler arrived with a herd of cattle at an open area about 100 meters from homes in the village of Deir Jarir, near the northwestern entrance to the village.
After about an hour, about 10 settlers, most of them masked, came to the village entrance and began blocking the main road into it with stones.
Young men from the village began gathering there, and clashes broke out between them and the settlers, which included stone throwing. During the confrontation, one of the settlers fired a live round from a rifle at the young men, but did not hit anyone.
After about 10 minutes, a military vehicle arrived, and the settlers began to leave the area. The armed settler left on an ATV. On his way out of the village, he noticed a Palestinian man praying on the ground by the side of the road and ran him over. The man was flung forcefully to the ground, and his father, who was waiting with his wife in their car nearby, shouted at the settler and demanded that he leave his son alone. The settler then drove up to him and tried to assault him through the car window. Meanwhile, the son returned to the car; in shock but not seriously hurt.
The father tried to drive away, but the settler managed to open his trunk and forced him to stop, then again tried to hit him through the car window. Another settler who joined him pepper-sprayed the father in the face, and then the two settlers left the area. The father and son were taken by a local resident to a clinic in the nearby town of Silwad, where they were examined, received treatment and discharged.
Israeli security forces who arrived at the scene in two military vehicles fired tear gas canisters and threw stun grenades at village residents. They left after about an hour, and the road was reopened to traffic.
M.M., a father of five, described the vehicular assault on his son and the assault on him in a testimony he gave B’Tselem field researcher Mohammad Romaneh:
On Thursday, 25 December 2025, at around 1:30 P.M., while I was traveling back from Ramallah to Deir Jarir with my son and my wife, I was surprised to see vehicles standing at the western entrance to the village. At first, I thought they were stopped there because of a military checkpoint, because since the occupation built a military road that runs from the village’s main street to the Tal al-‘Asur base and to the outpost the settlers set up about five months ago, occupation soldiers have been randomly placing a checkpoint at the western entrance.
And if it isn’t the soldiers, then sometimes it’s the settlers who block the village’s main road with stones and disrupt vehicle traffic into and out of the village.
I approached one of the stopped vehicles and asked the driver what was going on there. He told me that settlers were blocking the road and attacking homes in the western part of the village, and that there were clashes and stone throwing between young men from the village and the settlers.
I stopped behind the vehicles waiting there and waited for the settlers to leave or for the army to arrive and open the road. From where I was, I couldn’t see the clashes, but I did see the settlers’ cows grazing near one of the western homes of the village. We stood there for about half an hour and then, shortly before the muezzin’s call for the afternoon prayer, my son, who is 23, told me he wanted to get out of the car to pray on time. He got out, laid his prayer mat by the side of the road and started praying.
Immediately afterward, a military vehicle came down the road from the Tal al-‘Asur base and the outpost. The military vehicle stopped on the road leading to the base, and several soldiers got out and pointed their guns at our cars. Then they got back into the vehicle and drove east, in the direction of the clashes. Then, about three to four minutes after my son started praying, the vehicles in front of me started turning around and trying to leave the area. I asked what was going on, and one of the drivers told me that a settler on an ATV was coming towards us, and then I also began turning my car around.
While I was turning the car around, I saw the settler coming on the ATV. He sped past, right behind my car. I had to stop for a few seconds, and then he sped towards my son and deliberately hit him with the ATV, knocking him onto his side.
Then the settler stopped and said a few words to my son that I couldn’t hear. By then, I’d finished turning the car around, and when I saw him hit my son, I shouted at him to try to get him away from him. The settler turned the ATV around, stopped, got off, shouted at me, tried to hit me and demanded that we leave the area. I defended myself, and in the meantime, my son had already gotten up. I asked him to get in the car so we could leave before the situation got worse.
After that, the settler went towards the vehicles that were standing behind me, and I waited for my son to get into the car. The moment he got in and sat down next to me, I started driving forward, but after about 10 meters, I stopped because the settler had chased after me and opened the trunk of my car.
As soon as I stopped, he came back to me and tried to hit me through the window, but I pushed him away. In the meantime, another settler arrived, stuck his hand through the window and pepper sprayed me directly in the face.
I couldn’t see anything and got out of the car. Then an ambulance driver from Silwad Municipality arrived. He asked his son, the paramedic, to drive my car and take us somewhere where I could wash my face with milk. I got back into the car, and he drove and stopped next to a mobile cart that sells hot and cold drinks and washed my face with milk there. From there, a resident of the town, who happened to be passing by, drove me to the clinic in Silwad, where they cleaned my face and checked my son too. To our relief, they didn’t find any signs of injury. We left after three hours, and a guy from the village drove my car and brought me back home.
On Saturday, 27 December 2025, at around 5:00 P.M., someone called me and introduced himself as “Captain Omri” from the Israeli intelligence and asked that my son and I come to the interrogation center in Ofer. I told him that my son was not feeling well and that we wouldn’t come. He said he would call me again to set another time.
My son is still in shock from what he went through. He sits by himself and doesn’t talk to anyone, and over the past two days, he’s had trouble sleeping.
Since the settlers set up the outpost near the Tal al-‘Asur camp, there have been problems between them and the village residents almost every day: one day they graze their cattle on our land, and another they block the village’s main road. At night, we’re afraid to drive on the village’s main road because we’re scared the settlers will attack us.