The Israeli military on Sunday declared that Taybeh, the last village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that is populated entirely by Christians, was a “closed military zone” amid rising Jewish settler violence against the town. Taybeh, a Palestinian Christian village in the Israeli-Occupied West Bank, August 10, 2026. Vatican News on Monday published an interview with Father Bashar Fawadleh, a Catholic priest in Taybeh, who detailed the uptick in settler violence. “Many families across the west, east, and south of Taybeh are suffering from this settler violence. “Through your platform, I would like to appeal directly to Pope Leo XIV to intervene for this last Christian village in the West Bank, so that these settler attacks cease and the occupation of our land stops.