Ramallah, November 15, 2025 (WAFA) – The National Bureau for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlement said on Saturday that the Israeli occupation government is employing settler violence and terrorism to serve its plans of displacement and ethnic cleansing.
The office added in its weekly report, which monitors the period from November 8 to November 13 , that settler violence in the West Bank is limitless, has gotten out of control, and has become a disgrace to the occupying state, even to Israeli opposition leaders, from Yair Lapid to Avigdor Lieberman and Yair Golan.
The report continued: According to data from the occupation army and the so-called General Security Service (Shin Bet), which does not reflect the truth in any case, since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip, 1,575 “national crime” incidents have occurred in the West Bank, including about 704 in the first ten months of this year, in which firearms, bladed weapons and flammable materials were used, and 368 of them were classified as “popular terrorism,” i.e., deliberate, in which 174 Palestinians have been injured since the beginning of the year, an increase of 12 percent compared to last year .
According to the report, Eyal Zamir, the Chief of Staff of the occupation army, went too far in misleading when he said that these settlers “crossed the red lines” and that his army “will not tolerate a criminal minority that distorts the image of Israelis,” while he is aware that this terrorism, which has gone out of control, is protected in the field by his army and blessed by the Netanyahu-Smotrich-Ben Gvir alliance and covered up by the American administration. It is terrorism that has a clear function, which is to create the conditions for implementing the plan to deport and displace the Palestinians from their lands and homes.
The report indicated that dozens of population centers, especially in areas classified as Area C, have become targets of displacement dangers, sometimes at the hands of the occupation army and other times at the hands of settlers. It explained that the Palestinians in these communities live off agriculture and sheep herding, and their lives have turned into hell after the occupation authorities began to systematically implement a policy aimed at displacing these communities by creating an unbearable living situation, including imposing a strict ban on construction in these communities, refusing to connect them to basic facilities such as electricity and water, and refraining from building roads that facilitate access to them .
The report indicated that the pace of displacement has increased in the past two years. Since October 2023 , dozens of Palestinian communities have been forcibly displaced, with the number of displaced residents exceeding two thousand, as a result of the violence. Thousands more, living in dozens of Palestinian communities, continue to face a real threat of displacement due to daily attacks by settlers, particularly from settlement outposts and pastoral farms that proliferated during the war on the Gaza Strip.
According to the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, these outposts and farms, established since October 2023 with the assistance of the occupying power and numbering in the dozens, have no other purpose than to displace Palestinian communities and seize as much land as possible. The violence perpetrated by settlers living in these outposts has escalated and become a terrifying daily routine for the residents of the communities. This violence includes serious physical assaults, settler incursions into communities and homes day and night, arson, the expulsion of Palestinian shepherds from grazing areas and farmers from their fields, the killing and theft of livestock, the destruction of crops, the theft of equipment and personal belongings, and the blocking of roads .
Indeed, as B’Tselem says, 2,700 Palestinian citizens were displaced during the war. In Hebron Governorate, displacement operations took place in approximately eight locations, affecting 64 families comprising 489 individuals (including 211 minors). In Bethlehem Governorate, displacement occurred in six locations, affecting 46 families (including 211 individuals, including 99 minors). In Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, fourteen locations affected 177 families (including 1,150 individuals, including 508 minors). In Jerusalem Governorate, two families were displaced in the Hizma wilderness (18 individuals, including 4 minors). In Nablus Governorate, four locations affected 17 families (including 126 individuals, including 57 minors). Tubas and the Jordan Valley Governorate also experienced significant displacement, with four locations affecting 75 families (including 435 individuals, including 207 minors). In Jericho and the Jordan Valley Governorate, displacement operations occurred in two locations affecting 43 families (including 262 individuals, including 126 minors). Displacement in Khirbet Abu Rish in the Salfit Governorate affected 9 families comprising (47 individuals, including 23 minors).
The center points out that all of this took place during the Netanyahu-Smotrich-Ben Gvir government, where the occupation authorities focused their displacement efforts primarily on a number of areas in the West Bank, most notably, in addition to the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, the area south of the Hebron Hills, where about a thousand Palestinian citizens, half of them children, live under the threat of displacement from their homes and villages, and in the vicinity of the city of Jerusalem and the East Jerusalem area, where about 3,000 Palestinians from the area live under the threat of displacement, including 1,400 Palestinians living in the (E1) area , which Israel turned into an area of influence for the “Ma’ale Adumim” settlement to create urban contiguity between the settlement and the city of Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley area, where thousands of Palestinian citizens live in about twenty pastoral communities on their lands or on the edges of lands that the occupation army declared to be “firing” zones.
The National Bureau for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlement reported that in the past few weeks, the focus has been on Palestinian pastoral communities that the occupation army and settlers have placed on the agenda for demolition and displacement operations. These communities are located around Jerusalem, especially the “Ma’azi Jaba’” community northeast of Jerusalem, and the Khirbet Umm al-Khair community in Masafer Yatta south of Hebron.
Both gatherings have recently become a direct target of harassment and provocations by the occupation army and the criminal acts of colonial groups (the Hilltop Youth, the Price Tag, and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in its latest report on the humanitarian situation in the West Bank on the seventh of this month, to warn of the serious repercussions of the occupation authorities’ policies and the settlers’ practices.
The report indicated that the Netanyahu-Smotrich-Ben Gvir government does not take such warnings seriously as long as they remain within the bounds of verbal positions and do not move to deterrent measures by governments, especially in the European Union countries, the most important economic and trade partner with the occupying state, and as long as the current US administration continues its policy of favoring the occupation army and the practices of the settlers, and decides to lift sanctions on those settlers whom the previous US administration classified as “terrorists” and imposed sanctions on them and on the entities that provide them with support and care.
The report added that Bedouin communities surrounding Jerusalem face imminent forced displacement, especially with the commencement of the E1 settlement project. This is evident from the measures and practices taking place on the ground. In the second half of August , the so-called “Civil Administration,” accompanied by the Israeli army, distributed approximately 42 demolition orders for structures in the Al-Mushtal, Wadi Jamal, and Wadi Al-Hawd areas of Al-Eizariya, east of Jerusalem. These orders are related to the construction of the settlement road that Israel calls “Fabric of Life,” while Palestinians refer to it as the “Sovereignty Road,” alluding to its political objective of imposing “sovereignty” over the West Bank. The existence of these 22 Palestinian Bedouin communities is under serious threat, as they are expected to be displaced if settlement construction proceeds in the E1 area .
The report further stated that the demolition notices are being issued in conjunction with settler terrorist practices. These practices against Bedouin communities in the area, aimed at displacing them, continue unabated, particularly targeting Palestinian residents of Ma’azi Jaba’. The objective is clear: to seize hundreds of dunams of land to expand the Adam settlement, which the occupation established on Jaba’ land, and to connect it with the Binyamin settlement, thus creating geographical contiguity between the two settlements.
The “Ma’azi Jaba’” community includes about 200 Palestinian citizens, including about 40 families and 70 children under the age of eighteen, who live in difficult conditions that lack the minimum requirements for life.
It should be noted here that the occupation authorities published more than a year ago a detailed organizational plan to expand the “Geba Binyamin” settlement by building a new colonial neighborhood on the lands of the town of Jaba, on an area of 150 dunams in the northern part of the settlement on a hill opposite and pasture lands, with the aim of fattening the aforementioned settlement opposite the “Sha’ar Binyamin” settlement, but the “Ma’azi Jaba” gathering has become the dividing line between these two settlements, which explains this focus on “Ma’azi Jaba” to displace it .
The report also indicated that the village of Umm al-Khair has become a direct target of the displacement policy. At the end of October, the occupation authorities delivered final demolition notices to a number of homes and residential and service structures in the village during a raid carried out with the so-called “Civil Administration,” amid fears of a mass demolition campaign in the coming days.
The demolition notices targeted 14 homes and structures, including the Umm al-Khair Community Center. Umm al-Khair is one of the most frequently targeted communities for demolition in Masafer Yatta. Since 2007, it has witnessed more than 20 demolitions affecting over 100 residential, agricultural, and service structures, the most recent of which occurred last February . The village is experiencing dire humanitarian conditions amidst escalating colonial aggression, particularly after settlers recently established an outpost within its lands, alongside ongoing land confiscation and restrictions. Umm al-Khair remains a symbol of the steadfastness of Masafer Yatta, a steadfastness exemplified by the martyrdom of citizens Suleiman al-Hathalin and Awda al-Hathalin at the hands of terrorist settlers.
The report explained that this village, located east of Yatta, south of Hebron, occupies 1,000 dunams of land purchased by residents displaced by the Israeli occupation from the Tel Arad area of Beersheba in 1948. Since then, they have lived there, practicing agriculture and herding on the surrounding 6,000 dunams of agricultural land and mountains. Only about 300 people from the Bedouin al-Hathalin tribe remain in the village, besieged by the occupation and deprived of all basic necessities. They face the constant threat of displacement and expulsion, prompting the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory last week to warn against demolition orders issued by the Israeli authorities on the 28th of last month, which threaten a new wave of forced displacement. In that warning, the UN office called on the occupying authorities to immediately halt the mass demolition orders, which target 11 homes, vital community infrastructure, and some 35 extended families who have lived there since being expelled from their lands in the Negev during the mass forced displacement of Palestinians in 1948 .
In a separate development that portends a worsening security situation in the West Bank and a rise in settler terrorism to unprecedented levels, the so-called Council of Settlements in the West Bank distributed approximately 60 thermal drones to settlements and pastoral farms in the West Bank. This was done with the support of the Settlement Division of the Civil Administration, headed by the extremist minister Bezalel Smotrich, and with funding of millions of shekels raised by Council Chairman Yossi Dagan through a fundraising campaign in the United States. At the distribution ceremony, Dagan declared, “We are here to achieve victory.”
The report noted that Dagan occupies an influential position in the Likud party and is known for his extremism and support for the Hilltop Youth and other terrorist settler organizations operating in the settlements. He had also participated with Smotrich in calling for the destruction of the town of Huwara in March 2023 .
Israeli violations documented by the National Bureau for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlement during the reporting period :
Jerusalem: Last Sunday, settlers attacked a number of workers and olive pickers in the “Kroum al-Hara’iq” area of Beit Duqqu town, before proceeding to destroy agricultural machinery (bulldozers) and seize computers that were in the possession of the workers.
On the same day, seven citizens from the Bedouin community of “Al-Ma’azi” east of the town of Jaba’ were injured and their property was burned, as a result of an attack by settlers from the “Adam” settlement.
Israeli occupation forces forced three families in the town of Silwan to forcibly evacuate their homes in preparation for seizing them.
Last Sunday, settlers established a new outpost near the Bedouin communities of Abu Ghaliyeh and Al-Ara’ara, east of the town of Anata. This included laying the foundations for mobile homes and moving equipment and tools. Last Tuesday, a group of settlers stormed the Khallat al-Sidra community near the village of Mikhmas and attempted to assault residents before being confronted by local youths. Settlers also set fire to two vehicles belonging to residents of the village.
Last Thursday, Israeli bulldozers demolished a park in the Mount Hermon area of the town of Qubayba. In the village of Qalandiya, Israeli authorities notified homeowners and landowners of impending demolition and eviction to make way for a waste incineration plant. This threatens the demolition of two buildings housing dozens of Palestinian families, in addition to the confiscation of approximately 150 dunams of agricultural land to facilitate the rerouting of the separation wall and further settlement expansion.
Hebron: A citizen was injured last Sunday after being attacked by armed settlers from the “Karmiel” settlement and the “Shimon” outpost. He was transferred to Yatta Governmental Hospital, and his injury was described as moderate. Settlers also uprooted 70 olive saplings belonging to citizen Nasser Abu Obeid in Khirbet al-Taban in Masafer Yatta, and cut the fence surrounding his land.
Armed settlers from the “Avigal” settlement stormed the town of Beit Ummar and a residence in Masafer Yatta, and carried out provocative acts against the residents.
On Wednesday, the occupation forces demolished residential rooms and agricultural facilities in Masafer Yatta, and destroyed a number of water tanks belonging to citizen Samir Hamamda, whose family of seven is now homeless.
In the town of Beit Ummar, the occupation forces issued a military order to seize and confiscate more than 38 dunams of the town’s land in “Dahr Afteima, Al-Yanbu, Khallat Al-Aran, Wadi Ashkhit, Khallat Al-Farn, and Sidr Safa”, which are lands planted with grapevines, almond trees, and fruitful olive trees.
Bethlehem: Last Sunday, settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles in the village of Al-Maniya, while others grazed their sheep in the town of Beit Fajjar and assaulted olive pickers in Nahalin, west of Bethlehem. Settlers also attacked olive pickers in the Wadi Salem area, assaulting Jihad Ibrahim Najajra and his son Ibrahim while they were harvesting olives before arresting them and confiscating the harvested olives and the equipment used.
Last Wednesday, a 25-year-old man was shot by the occupation forces during an attack by a group of settlers, protected by the occupation forces, on the village of Kisan while they were plowing their land in the “Wadi Abu Ayyash” area.
Last Thursday, settlers stormed the Khala’il al-Luz area, vandalizing a greenhouse and a water well, and stealing approximately 20 reinforced iron posts belonging to a local resident. Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces demolished two houses in the village of al-Walaja and issued demolition orders for three houses under construction in the Khallat al-Hour and al-Sarj areas .
Ramallah: Settlers set fire to three vehicles in the “al-Tall” area of Deir Dibwan before fleeing. Others burned two vehicles during an attack on the town of Atara, carried out under the protection of Israeli occupation forces deployed around the town.
In the town of Kafr Malik, settlers attacked farmers and international solidarity activists as they headed to their land in the southern areas near the bypass road and the Al-Manatir area to the east, forcing them to turn back. Meanwhile, three Palestinians sustained various injuries and bruises after being attacked by settlers in the village of Deir Nizam, who also forced them to leave their land. Settlers also attacked the village of Al-Mughayyir and set fire to residents’ vehicles, while other settlers stole olives from land in the Al-Khala’il area south of the village, belonging to a resident of the neighboring town of Turmus Ayya.
Last Wednesday, armed settlers attacked the “Khirbet al-Tall” area in the town of Sinjil, and opened fire on a number of young men present in the area, resulting in a young man being shot in the foot.
Nablus: On Sunday, settlers from the newly established outpost on land belonging to the village of Majdal Bani Fadil set fire to dozens of olive trees across a vast area of the village’s southern lands. On Monday, a group of settlers attacked Palestinian shepherds in Khirbet al-Tawil, east of the town of Aqraba, attempting to force them to leave the area. It should be noted that settlers routinely harass shepherds in their limited grazing lands, preventing them from grazing their livestock. As a result, tens of thousands of acres of grazing land in various areas of the West Bank have fallen under their control .
Tulkarm: On Tuesday evening, groups of settlers launched a large-scale attack on industrial and agricultural facilities near the town of Beit Lid, causing significant fires and injuring several residents. The settlers set fire to a number of Palestinian vehicles within the industrial zone known as “Al-Ladān” (The Plastics) on the outskirts of the town, including four trucks belonging to the Al-Junaidi Dairy Factory. The attack also extended to setting fire to agricultural land, tin shacks, and tents belonging to a Bedouin community of approximately five families residing in the area.
Jericho and the Jordan Valley: Last Sunday, a group of settlers demolished a residential tent and destroyed crops in Khirbet al-Farsiya in the northern Jordan Valley. They also stole agricultural equipment and began plowing land to seize it. On Monday evening, a number of settlers on horseback stormed the communities of Makhoul and Samra in the northern Jordan Valley in a provocative act intended to intimidate the residents.
On Wednesday, a citizen from the Arab al-Rashayda Bedouin community north of Jericho suffered serious injuries and a skull fracture as a result of an attack by settlers, and was subsequently transferred to the hospital, while settler attacks against the Bedouin community continued.
The settlers continued to fence off agricultural lands in the Al-Farsiya area, which are officially owned by Palestinian citizens through the “Tabu” (land registry), where tens of thousands of dunams of agricultural and pastoral land became surrounded by barbed wire, which means seizing them and depriving their owners of benefiting from them.
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