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Latest on Israeli army, settler attacks against Palestinians in West Bank
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has released its latest update on the situation in the occupied West Bank:
- At least 159 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank between January 1 and July 21 of this year.
- So far in 2025, about 320 Palestinians – more than half of them children – have been displaced by so-called “lack-of-permit demolitions” in occupied East Jerusalem; that amounts to an average of 49 demolitions per month.
- Between July 15 and 21, OCHA documented at least 27 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians that resulted in casualties and/or property damage.
- “These attacks led to the displacement of two households comprising 10 people, including five children, and the injury of seven Palestinians, including one child – six by Israeli settlers and one by Israeli forces,” the agency said.
Activist group warns of ‘collusion’ between Israeli settlers and army in West Bank
A leading Israeli activist group has accused the army of colluding with settlers in an “organised attack” on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
“Especially after the 7th of October, the Israeli military recruited many, many settlers as reserve soldiers,” said Hagit Ofran, from Peace Now.
“Many of them are taking part in the attacks on Palestinians, but this time they’re doing it with the uniform and the weapon of the [Israeli army] and with the authorities of a soldier. That marks a big escalation in the central violence together with the army.”
She warned that the West Bank violence is not limited to settlers. “It’s a government organisation. They are supported by our government,” she said. “They get a budget from this government, and this is how it’s all organised.”
Israel ‘expanding war on Palestinian refugees in West Bank’: Researchers
Forensic Architecture, a research group in the UK, says its analysis shows the Israeli military is carving up the Tulkarem, Jenin and Nur Shams refugee camps “to establish new military routes, displace Palestinians, and dismantle historic centres of resistance”.
“By demolishing homes and repeatedly uprooting Palestinians, Israel is not only forcing them from place to place—itself a form of physical and psychological warfare—but attempting to erase the fact that these locations were ever refugee camps at all and weaken Palestinian demand for return,” the group said on X.
“Each wave of displacement seeks to dissolve the Palestinian refugee identity and undermine the population’s political, historical and legal claims.”
Israeli settler attacks show new level of violence, organization
Israeli settlers are becoming more brazen and heavily armed, attacking Palestinians with impunity as the Israeli government and Palestinian Authority stand by.
