Israeli army, settlers strike 2,350 times in West Bank last month: Report

‘Cycle of terror’ spikes arsenic Higher Planning Council acceptable to beforehand plans to physique 1,985 caller colony units successful occupied West Bank.

Israeli forces and settlers person carried retired 2,350 attacks crossed the occupied West Bank past period successful an “ongoing rhythm of terror”, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission (CRRC).

CRRC caput Mu’ayyad Sha’ban said connected Wednesday that Israeli forces carried retired 1,584 attacks – including nonstop carnal attacks, the demolition of homes and the uprooting of olive trees – with astir of the unit focused connected the governorates of Ramallah (542), Nablus (412) and Hebron (401).

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The research, compiled successful a CRRC monthly study titled Occupation Violations and Colonial Expansion Measures, besides noted 766 attacks by settlers. The committee said they are expanding settlements, which are amerciable nether planetary law, arsenic portion of what it called an “organised strategy that aims to displace the land’s indigenous radical and enforce a afloat racist assemblage regime”.

The study said settler attacks reached a caller highest with astir targeting the Ramallah governorate (195), Nablus (179) and Hebron (126). Olive pickers received the brunt of attacks, according to the report, which said they were the victims of “state terror” that had been “orchestrated successful the acheronian backrooms of the concern government”.

It described instances of Israeli “vandalism and theft” carried retired successful cahoots with Israeli soldiers that person seen the “uprooting, demolition and poisoning” of 1,200 olive trees successful Hebron, Ramallah, Tubas, Qalqilya, Nablus and Bethlehem. During the violence, settlers person tried to found 7 caller outposts connected Palestinian onshore since October successful the governorates of Hebron and Nablus.

For decades, the Israeli subject has uprooted olive trees, an important Palestinian taste symbol, crossed the West Bank arsenic portion of efforts by successive Israeli governments to prehend Palestinian onshore and forcibly displace residents.

The spike successful Israeli unit comes amid expectations that Israel’s Higher Planning Council (HPC), portion of the Israeli army’s Civil Administration overseeing the occupied West Bank, volition conscionable to sermon the operation of 1,985 caller colony units successful the West Bank connected Wednesday.

The left-wing Israeli question Peace Now said 1,288 of the units would beryllium rolled retired successful 2 isolated settlements successful the bluish West Bank, namely Avnei Hefetz and Einav Plan.

It said the HPC had been holding play meetings since November past twelvemonth to beforehand lodging projects successful the settlements, frankincense normalising and accelerating operation connected onshore taken from Palestinians.

Since the opening of 2025, the HPC has pushed guardant a grounds 28,195 lodging units, Peace Now said.

In August, far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich drew planetary condemnation aft saying plans to physique thousands of homes arsenic portion of the projected E1 colony strategy successful the West Bank “buries the thought of a Palestinian state”.

The E1 project, shelved for years amid absorption from the United States and European allies, would link occupied East Jerusalem with the existing amerciable Israeli colony of Maale Adumim.

The Israeli acold right’s propulsion to annex the West Bank would fundamentally extremity the anticipation of implementing a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli struggle arsenic outlined successful galore United Nations resolutions.

United States President Donald Trump’s medication has been adamant that it won’t let Israel to annex the occupied territory.  US Vice President JD Vance, while visiting Israel recently, said Trump would reason Israeli annexation of the West Bank and it would not happen. Vance said arsenic helium near Israel, “If it was a governmental stunt, it is simply a precise anserine one, and I personally instrumentality immoderate insult to it.”

But the US has done thing to rein successful Israel’s assaults and crackdowns connected Palestinians successful the West Bank arsenic it trumpets its Gaza ceasefire efforts.