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In the West Bank village of Umm al-Khair, Palestinians face daily pressure from Israeli settlers and military forces, including attacks, arrests, and demolition threats. The community, already mourning a leader killed by a settler, is pushing back against efforts to seize land and erase their presence as displacement rates reach record levels.
Israeli forces and settlers wounded six Palestinians, including two paramedics, in attacks across Nablus and Bethlehem. Palestinian monitors have recorded over 11,000 attacks in the West Bank since January.
Israeli prosecutors have filed a rare indictment against a settler for manslaughter in the death of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, marking the first such prosecution in over seven years. The charge sheet, which also includes armed trespassing, follows a year-long investigation that cast doubt on the defendant's self-defense claim.
Israeli forces detained seven Palestinians, including two children, in raids across the West Bank on Saturday. Settlers also attacked a Palestinian couple on their farmland, highlighting escalating violence and settlement activity in the region.
Israeli airstrikes destroyed a mosque and refugee tents in Gaza on April 8, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding more than a dozen. Separately, Israeli settlers set fire to a Palestinian family’s home near Bethlehem, West Bank, amid a wider surge in settler attacks and land confiscation.
Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of at-Tuwani in the occupied West Bank on 19 July, burning a factory, a mosque and homes. Residents say the assault is part of a broader campaign to displace them, but they are determined to remain on their land.
An attack by Israeli settlers in Tal, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, killed four Palestinians and sparked days of retaliatory raids, arson, closures and mass arrests. More than 20 settlers from the illegal Havat Gilad outpost assaulted Palestinian homes on July 24; video showed a Palestinian killing a settler with his own gun before being shot by soldiers.
Nearly 600 former Israeli security and diplomatic officials have sent an open letter to US President Donald Trump, urging him to press Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop 'settler terrorism' in the occupied West Bank. The letter warns that the escalating violence could have severe consequences for both Israeli security and US regional interests, and that it may lead to more devastating outcomes than the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack.
New sanctions targeting Israeli settlers and a far-right minister are criticized for failing to address the root problem: the state's systematic complicity in occupying Palestinian territory. Activists argue that focusing on individuals distracts from broader institutional sanctions against the Israeli government, which they say plans, funds, and enforces settlement expansion. Western governments are accused of acting 'too little, too late' while continuing to trade arms and goods with Israel.
