Fear and attacks grip Taybeh, the last all-Christian town in the West Bank

Taybeh, occupied West Bank – Underneath a painting of Jesus and his disciples, Sandra Basir brought out what she and her husband, Roland, now keep to protect their home: a couple of fire extinguishers.They keep them because the last time Israeli settlers set fire to a neighbour’s car outside their house, no one else came. “Civil defence – when did they even show up? After everything was already over,” Roland says.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Israel trucks out Gaza’s rubble to ‘hide genocide’ and ‘redraw the map’list 2 of 3Eurovision to bar countries at war from hosting: What that meanslist 3 of 3US diplomat calls Israeli settler siege of West Bank homes ‘act of terror’end of listThe couple’s nightly routine in their Palestinian Christian town is now similar to the majority-Muslim rural Palestinian communities besieged by settler attacks and nighttime military raids for years. Sandra checks the doors more than once before bed. They got a dog to stay outside to alert them of any trespassers. Sandra is, by her own description, always half-awake – listening for whoever might be coming for her four small children while they sleep.Their seven-year-old son has stopped pla...