Nine citizens were killed and six Bedouin communities were forcibly displaced.
Attempts to establish 14 new colonial outposts, along with 123 acts of sabotage and 18 attacks on property.
Seizure of 225 dunams and removal of trees from an area of 1391 dunams
Ramallah, March 28, 2026 (WAFA) – Minister Mu’ayyad Sha’ban, head of the Commission against the Wall and Settlements, said that settlers carried out 443 attacks during the month of the outbreak of the current war and regional tension, taking advantage of the state of unrest to intensify their attacks on Palestinian villages and communities.
Shaaban explained in a report issued by the commission on Saturday that these attacks were characterized by escalation and organization, and included direct gunfire, burning of homes and property, and imposing new field realities on the ground, in a context aimed at changing the geographical and demographic reality in the West Bank.
He indicated that the attacks were concentrated in the governorates of Nablus (108 attacks), Hebron (99), Ramallah (76), Bethlehem (32), Jerusalem (24), and Salfit (23), in addition to Jericho and Qalqilya.
Shaaban said that the past four weeks have witnessed bloody terrorist attacks, which led to the martyrdom of 9 citizens at the hands of terrorist settlers. The two brothers, Muhammad and Fahim Muammar, were martyred in Qaryut, Amir Shanaran in Masafer Yatta, and the three martyrs in Khirbet Abu Falah in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, namely: Thaer Hamayel, Fara’ Hamayel, and Muhammad Murra, who died as a result of inhaling tear gas, which caused his heart to stop before he reached the hospital. In addition, the martyr Ayed Arar in Qarawat Bani Zeid in the Salfit Governorate suffered a heart attack as a result of the settlers’ attack on him, and the martyr in Bethlehem, Muhammad Faraj Al-Malhi.
He pointed out that the wave of attacks led to the forced displacement of 6 Bedouin communities, affecting 58 families comprising 256 individuals, including 79 women and 166 children, as a result of attacks and threats by settlers, as follows:
• On March 8, the settlers forcibly displaced the Yirza community in the northern Jordan Valley, which includes 11 families comprising 69 people, including 21 women and 40 children.
• On March 7, the colonists displaced the eastern Aqaba in the Jordan Valley, which includes 9 families comprising 38 people, including 14 women and 16 children.
• On March 6, the settlers displaced 13 families comprising 59 people, including 19 women and 35 children, from Khirbet Shakara near the village of Duma in the Nablus Governorate.
• On March 5, the settlers forcibly displaced the Arab al-Zawahra in the Nablus Governorate, displacing 4 families comprising 25 people, including 11 women and 15 children.
• On March 16, amid attacks and threats by settlers, 6 families were displaced from the Fasayil al-Wusta community, which consists of 47 citizens, including 26 children.
• On March 15, the settlers forcibly displaced 15 families consisting of 91 citizens from the Samra community (partial displacement) in the northern Jordan Valley to another location, including 39 children.
He also pointed to attempts to establish 14 new colonial outposts, along with 123 acts of sabotage and 18 attacks that resulted in setting fire to citizens’ properties, including 6 in Nablus, 4 in Ramallah and Hebron, and one fire in Qalqilya, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jenin. He also mentioned 3 attacks on religious sites, including an attempt to burn down the Muhammad Fayyad Mosque in Duma, south of Nablus, and an attack on the Majdal Bani Fadil Mosque, in addition to the continued storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the denial of Palestinian citizens’ access to it.
He stressed that this escalation reflects a systematic policy that exploits the international community’s preoccupation with the war, calling on the international community to assume its responsibilities and take urgent steps to stop these violations and provide protection for the Palestinian people.
Shaaban explained that during the same period, the occupation authorities granted official approval to implement a road and infrastructure route on the lands of Beit Ummar, northwest of Hebron, without the usual planning procedures, as part of the preparation for establishing a new settlement called “Ir al-Karn,” which was announced by the occupation cabinet. This settlement will create geographical contiguity between the settlements of Karmei Tzur and Migdal Oz at the expense of Palestinian lands.
At the same stage, the occupation authorities issued 12 orders to seize land for military and security purposes, through which they seized 225 dunams of citizens’ land in the governorates of Ramallah, Jenin, Jerusalem, Jericho, Tubas, Nablus, and Salfit, with the aim of building military roads and establishing sites and buffer zones. The largest of these was military order number T/3/26, which seized 128 dunams of land in the town of Arraba in the Jenin Governorate with the aim of establishing a military site, and another order numbered T/37/26, which targeted the lands of Al-Mazra’a Al-Sharqiya, Silwad, and Deir Jarir by seizing 41 dunams, with the aim of establishing a security buffer zone around Mount Al-Asur.
The occupation authorities also issued a total of 27 military orders under the name “orders to take security measures,” which stipulate the removal of trees from an area of 1,391 dunams of citizens’ lands in the governorates of Ramallah, with 12 orders, 3 orders in Jenin, and 2 orders each in Qalqilya, Tulkarm, Nablus, Salfit, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem. The largest of these was military order number 9/26, which targets the tree cover of an area of 380 dunams of lands of the villages of Silwad, Atara, and Ein Sinya, north of the Ramallah governorate, as well as the order targeting 139 dunams of lands of Ramin in the Tulkarm governorate, and another order targeting 95 dunams of lands of the towns of Beita and Huwara in the Nablus governorate.
Shaaban explained that the results of the first month since the outbreak of the regional war reveal an unprecedented escalation in settler attacks, accompanied by systematic policies by the occupation authorities to provide cover and support for these violations.
He pointed out that this escalation was not spontaneous, but rather came in the context of a clear exploitation of the state of international and media preoccupation with the war, which allowed for the intensification of attacks and the imposition of new field realities at the expense of the Palestinian land and its inhabitants.
Shaaban explained that the increasing frequency of attacks, forced displacement operations, accelerated land confiscation orders, and road construction all reflect a systematic drive to expand the colonial project and reshape the geography and demographics of the West Bank within a short period. He warned that the continuation of this course would undermine any chance of stability, reiterating his call for the international community and human rights and humanitarian organizations to assume their legal and moral responsibilities and take effective steps to stop these violations and provide protection for the Palestinian people.
The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission issued a press release on February 28, 2026, warning against the exploitation of the war conditions by settlers, calling on the Palestinian people to be more vigilant and cautious regarding a new escalation in settler crimes in light of the regional tension, media polarization, and international preoccupation with recent military developments and the war on Iran, warning of the danger of the occupying state, especially the terrorist settler militias, exploiting this political and media climate to carry out systematic terrorist operations against Palestinian citizens in villages and Bedouin communities.
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