On October 17, 2026, overnight, Israeli settler belonged to the “Hilltop Youth, invaded agricultural facilitied, in Kafr Malik, east of Ramallah, in occupied West Bank, and stabbed and struck baby goats to kill and torture them. They slaughtered the animals one by one. The farm belongs to the Darbani family, in the Al-Manatir area east of the village, and the mayor of Kafr Malik says around 20 sheep and goats were killed, many of them young kids.

For farming families, flocks like these are a whole year’s living. The killing is part of a campaign against Palestinian livestock across the occupied West Bank, in which colonists poison flocks, steal herds at gunpoint and slaughter animals in their pens, and none of them is ever held to account.

Settlers have already stolen 80 head of sheep from Kafr Malik in an earlier forces during a raid on the village set a family’s home on fire.