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The Guardian - UK
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Julian Borger in Taybeh

A strategy ‘to make life intolerable’: Israeli settlers are driving Christians out of West Bank

The inside of a burnt out car, two men look on taking pictures
Men stand near a vehicle that was reportedly torched by Israeli settlers during an overnight attack on the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on July 28, 2025 Photograph: Zain Jaafar/AFP/Getty Images

Taybeh, a small hilltop town in the heart of the West Bank is one of the oldest Christian communities in the world. After increasing attacks from Israeli settlers it now feels itself under siege and is fighting for its very existence.

The town’s ancient Greek name was Ephraim where, according to the gospels, Jesus hid with his disciples from the Jewish religious hierarchy, the Sanhedrin, before making his final fateful trip to Jerusalem.

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