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SvennoJ on 08 August 2025
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Israeli settlers expand illegal West Bank outpost near Nablus, videos show

Videos verified by Al Jazeera show Israeli settlers using bulldozers to excavate and expand a newly established illegal settlement outpost east of Salim town near the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

Outposts are typically makeshift encampments ranging from single caravans to a few modular structures built on rural Palestinian land.

They are built by members of Israel’s wider settler movement, which seeks to enforce an Israeli presence on illegally occupied Palestinian land.

All outposts, like settlements, are illegal under international law. Israel, however, considers only the outposts illegal, claiming they were erected without government approval. Yet, outposts are often approved retroactively as settlements.


Israeli forces make arrests during occupied West Bank raids

Israeli soldiers have launched multiple new incursions into the occupied West Bank since dawn and have made a number of arrests.

In the town of Zeita north of Tulkarem, Israeli forces arrested at least five Palestinians after raiding their homes. Another raid took place in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, where a young man was taken into custody after his home was ransacked, according to the Wafa news agency.

In Jenin’s Jabal Abu Dhahir town, Israeli soldiers forced a family out of their home via loudspeakers and fired sound bombs before making at least one arrest.


Israeli settlers attack elderly Palestinian, cut down trees in West Bank attacks

Israeli settlers have assaulted an elderly Palestinian man with an amputated leg in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to local Palestinian sources.

They broke his crutch, which he used to lean on due to the amputation of his leg, which was a result of being shot by settlers four months ago, according to the Wafa news agency.

He was transferred to Yatta Governmental Hospital due to the bruises he sustained.

East of Masafer Yatta, settlers cut down more than 100 grape vines planted on an area comprising four dunams (1 acre or 0.4 hectares).

In occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli authorities forced a Palestinian family to demolish their own home because they allegedly did not have a permit to build there, displacing 16 people.