Jewish settlers set fires near the 5th-century Church of St. George and an adjacent Christian cemetery in Taybeh late Monday, damaging parts of the site and threatening surrounding farmland. Taybeh, located east of Ramallah, is the only entirely Christian town in the occupied West Bank. The town’s Latin, Greek Orthodox and Melkite parish priests—Fathers Bashar Fawadleh, Jack Nobel Abed and Daoud Khoury—issued a joint statement on Tuesday calling the attack the latest in a series of arson incidents, property damage and land seizures they say occur "almost daily" under the watch of Israeli soldiers. The clerics urged an international fact-finding mission, diplomatic pressure on Israeli authorities and economic assistance to help residents remain on their land. Church leaders warned that settler outposts expanding from the nearby Rimonim settlement have placed more than half of Taybeh’s agricultural area at risk, undermining livelihoods in a town that counts olive growing as its main source of income. Nearly 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military and settler violence across the West Bank since the Gaza war began in October 2023, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, underscoring what the priests called a widening threat to both the community’s safety and its ancient Christian heritage.