Dozens of Israeli settlers launched arson attacks targeting a Palestinian warehouse, a Bedouin village, and farmland in the north of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
Several Palestinians were injured.
The incidents were the latest in a recent surge in settler violence coinciding with the olive harvest season, when Palestinians head to their agricultural land around towns and villages.
The United Nations' humanitarian office reported that the number of violent attacks by settlers last month was the highest since it began collecting figures nearly 20 years ago.
Israel has built about 160 settlements housing 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East war, areas Palestinians seek for a future state.
Video footage shows masked men setting fire to a Palestinian warehouse in Beit Lid, as well as tents ablaze in the Bedouin village of Deir Sharaf, with cries from women in the background.
Palestinian Authority Minister Muayyad Shaaban described the attacks as part of a campaign to create a hostile environment through intimidation and terror.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported that it was present at the scene to disperse the violence and that several Israeli civilians were apprehended during the confrontation.
The large-scale attacks mark a rare move of Israeli law enforcement against settler violence, especially following heightened tensions over the conflict since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel in October.
This unsettling wave of violence is compounded by reports from the UN, which notes that October alone saw over 260 incidents resulting in casualties or property damage, with settler violence hitting unprecedented levels during the olive harvest.
Amid rising attacks, activists and foreign volunteers have risked their safety to assist Palestinian farmers, only to face violence themselves.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has pushed for rapid settlements expansion amidst the ongoing conflict, complicating the already tenuous situation for Palestinians as efforts for peace remain elusive.
