The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they unfold.
Reports: Settlers assault Palestinian brothers outside West Bank village
Israeli settlers assaulted two Palestinian brothers on the outskirts of the village of al-Mughayyir in the central West Bank, the Wafa official Palestinian news agency reports.
Ghassan and Imad Jaber were visiting relatives in al-Mughayyir and were walking outside the town when they came under attack by a group of settlers from a nearby illegal Israeli outpost and beat them, al-Mughayyir mayor Sayel Canaan told Arabic media.
The settlers held the brothers — who also have American citizenship — against their will until Israeli soldiers arrived at the scene and released the pair. Both of them required medical treatment and were evacuated to a nearby hospital.
The IDF did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
There are no reports of any arrests, which are highly unlikely in incidents of settler violence, even though they have been taking place on a near-daily basis across the West Bank in recent months.
Palestinian-American Ghassan Jaber and his brother Imad were kidnapped by Israeli settlers in the village of Burqa and brutally tortured before being released and rushed to the hospital.
In this photo, Ghassan lies on a stretcher, holding his American passport in his hand. pic.twitter.com/Wgb4DRdYDL
— Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) June 1, 2025
????Horrific: Israeli settlers kidnapped and brutally tortured two Palestinian-American brothers from the village of Burqa near Ramallah in the West Bank—before eventually releasing them. pic.twitter.com/FGE9SFk4Qx
— Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) June 1, 2025
Colorado governor calls Boulder attack a ‘vicious act of terrorism’
Colorado Governor Jared Polis condemns an apparent attack on hostage demonstrators in Boulder as a “vicious act of terrorism.”
“As the American Jewish community continues to reel from the horrific antisemitic murders in Washington, D.C., it is unfathomable that the Jewish community is facing another terror attack here in Boulder,” Polis says on X.
The attack targeted several individuals while they were marching for the hostages, he says.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says, “We’re united in prayer for the victims of a targeted terror attack this afternoon in Boulder. Terror has no place in our great country.”
Man shouts ‘End Zionists’ in video said to show Colorado attack
A man screams, “End Zionists” in video said to show the scene of an attack on hostage protesters in Boulder, Colorado.
The footage, posted on X, shows a shirtless man holding what appear to be Molotov cocktails.
There appear to be scorch marks on the ground next to flyers showing the images of Israeli hostages in front of him. There are also flames and scorch marks in the nearby grass.
The suspect is heard here saying twice "End Zionists" pic.twitter.com/ATNlXkKyM0
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) June 1, 2025
The man also shouts ,”Palestine is free.”
At least one person is lying on the ground as bystanders pour water on them.
A police officer approaches the man, who lies down, and the officer cuffs his hands behind his back.
Boulder police says multiple people evacuated with burn injuries; suspect apprehended
Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn holds a press conference on the reported attack targeting a gathering of pro-Israel activists in the Colorado city earlier this afternoon.
He says that at 1:26 p.m. local time, police received calls that there was a “man with a weapon” near the county courthouse on 13th and Pearl St. and that “people were being set on fire.”
When police arrived at the scene shortly thereafter, they encountered “multiple victims” with injuries “consistent with burns,” Redfearn says.
Witnesses at the scene told CBS Colorado that the suspect attacked people with Molotov cocktails who were participating in a walk to remember the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza.
CBS cites witnesses who saw the suspect attack people with Molotov cocktails while they were participating in a weekly walk to raise awareness for the hostages in Gaza.
משתתפים בצעדה למען החטופים הותקפו בקולורדו על ידי אלמוני שזרק בקבוק תבערה לעברם. המשטרה עצרה חשוד בזירה. מספר אנשים נפצעו בדרגות שונות של חומרה ופונו לבתי החולים | כל הפרטים >>> https://t.co/tDmvHyvBeo pic.twitter.com/GAEKD1P0rz
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) June 1, 2025
The victims were evacuated to a nearby Boulder Community Health medical center for treatment, says the local police chief, adding that a number of them apparently suffered “life-threatening” injuries.
Shortly after arriving on the scene, a suspect was pointed out to officers who managed to apprehend him, Redfearn says.
The suspect is an adult male and was taken to a nearby hospital after sustaining minor injuries of his own in the incident, the police chief says, declining to identify him further.
Redfearn confirms that a pro-Israel “peaceful demonstration” was taking place in the area, as it frequently does.
However, he stresses that police are still gathering information roughly three hours after the attack and are still working to determine whether the pro-Israel group was specifically targeted.
Asked whether he would classify the incident as a “terror attack” the way that FBI director Kash Patel has, Redfearn says it would be “irresponsible to speculate on motive at this point.”
The police chief clarifies that if it is later determined that the pro-Israel gathering was targeted, security for it would be stepped up moving forward.
He adds that the scene of the attack has not yet been declared safe yet and that there is a vehicle of interest that is still being probed.
The incident takes place less than two weeks after a pair of Israeli embassy staffers were shot dead outside an American Jewish Committee event in Washington.
FBI probing Colorado ‘terror attack’ that reportedly targeted pro-Israel gathering
The FBI chief says the agency is investigating a “targeted terror attack” in Boulder, Colorado, amid reports of an assault on a pro-Israel demonstration in the US city.
The Boulder Police Department tweets that it is also responding to the attack, adding that there are “reports of several victims.”
One person has been arrested on suspicion of hurling a Molotov cocktail at pro-Israel demonstrators, with initial reports saying at least five people were injured, the Axios news site says.
The Anti-Defamation League says the attack took place at today’s Boulder Run for Their Lives event – a weekly meeting of Jewish community members to run/walk in support of the hostages kidnapped during Hamas’s October 7 onslaught.
“We are aware of and fully investigating a targeted terror attack in Boulder, Colorado,” Kash Patel says on X, adding that “our agents and local law enforcement are on the scene already, and we will share updates as more information becomes available.”
NEW: Colorado police respond to an attack at Pearl Street Mall in Boulder. Witnesses say the suspect targeted people walking to honor Israeli hostages
Multiple people were injured pic.twitter.com/cDfRTVSp54
— Unlimited L's (@unlimited_ls) June 1, 2025
MSF says patients it treated after chaos near Gaza aid site said they ‘were shot from all sides’ by IDF
Medical charity Doctors Without Borders said Sunday that people it treated at a Gaza aid site run by a new US-backed organization reported being “shot from all sides” by Israeli forces.
The IDF has vehemently denied opening fire at Gazans at or near the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s aid distribution site in the southern Gaza town of Rafah.
The NGO, known by its French name MSF, blamed the GHF system for chaos at the scene in the southern Gaza town of Rafah.
Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said Israeli fire killed 31 Palestinians at the site. Witnesses also told AFP the Israeli military had opened fire.
“Patients told MSF they were shot from all sides by drones, helicopters, boats, tanks and Israeli soldiers on the ground,” MSF said in a statement.
MSF emergency coordinator Claire Manera in the statement called the GHF’s system of aid delivery “dehumanizing, dangerous and severely ineffective.”
“It has resulted in deaths and injuries of civilians that could have been prevented. Humanitarian aid must be provided only by humanitarian organizations who have the competence and determination to do it safely and effectively.”
MSF communications officer Nour Alsaqa in the statement reported hospital corridors filled with patients, mostly men, with “visible gunshot wounds in their limbs.”
MSF quoted one injured man, Mansour Sami Abdi, as describing people fighting over just five pallets of aid.
“They told us to take food — then they fired from every direction,” he said. “This isn’t aid. It’s a lie.”
The Israeli military said an initial inquiry found its troops “did not fire at civilians while they were near or within the humanitarian aid distribution site”.
A GHF spokesperson said: “These fake reports have been actively fomented by Hamas,” the Islamic militant group that Israel has vowed to destroy in Gaza.
Blasting Israel after West Bank ban, Saudi FM says PA ‘is the rational party in this equation’
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas earlier today participated virtually in a meeting of Middle Eastern ministers organized by Saudi Arabia, after Israel barred the senior officials from entering the West Bank to attend the scheduled gathering in Ramallah.
The ministerial meeting focused on efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan says during a press conference afterwards.
Participants also discussed ongoing efforts to reform the PA, with Prince Faisal hailing Abbas for them.
“The Palestinian Authority continues to fulfill its duties and responsibilities toward the Palestinian people,” says the Saudi diplomat.
“It is the rational party in this equation, facing a party that does not want any solutions,” he adds, blasting Israel’s current government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.