UN report highlights mass ‘forced displacement’ by Israel in the West Bank
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has raised the alarm on an Israeli military notice that all buildings will be destroyed in 13 Palestinian communities in the Masafer Yatta area in the occupied West Bank.
At least 1,200 people, including more than 500 children, are now at risk of “forced displacement” if the military carries out its planned demolitions, the OCHA said.
In its latest situation report on deteriorating conditions for Palestinians in the West Bank, OCHA also reports that in the period between June 13 and 23 , Israeli soldiers temporarily “took over” 240 Palestinian homes to use them as military outposts and interrogation centres.
The owners of the homes were either forcibly evicted or detained, the UN said, during the military’s home invasions.
In the West Bank’s Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, nearly 100 structures – mostly homes – were also demolished by the Israeli military this month, and in occupied East Jerusalem, almost 320 residents in three Palestinian communities face renewed eviction and demolition threats, OCHA said.
Israeli settlers destroy Palestinian olive trees, establish illegal outpost near Nablus
We have been reporting on overnight clashes between Israeli settlers and Palestinians in the Nablus area of the occupied West Bank.
Now, the Quds News Network reports that settlers have levelled land and bulldozed olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers on the outskirts of the town of Aqraba, southeast of Nablus.
Israeli settlers have also reportedly entered the Palestinian village of Kafr Qallil, east of Nablus, the Palestinian Information Center reports. Shlomo Raichman, a journalist with Israeli Army Radio, reports that a new illegal Israeli outpost has been established near the existing settlement of Kedumim, west of Nablus.
“During the night, a new neighbourhood was established west of Kedumim – ‘Nofei Gideon’,” Raichman wrote in a post on X. “In recent months, a road was paved to the neighbourhood and infrastructure was set up. Tonight, the buildings were erected, and 10 families began residing in the area,” he added.
Israeli settlers are levelling land and bulldozing olive trees on the outskirts of the town of Aqraba, located southeast of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/fmWLDB6eYR
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) June 27, 2025
Palestinian woman hospitalised after assault by Israeli settlers
A Palestinian woman in the Masafer Yatta area in the southern West Bank has been hospitalised after she was assaulted in an attack by Israeli settlers, local sources tell Al Jazeera.
They said the assault took place during an attack by settlers on Palestinian homes in the village of Susiya last night. Other residents were injured when they resisted the attack.
The woman sustained bruises and was taken to Yatta Governmental Hospital for treatment, sources said.
