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Press release 14 September 2026
B’Tselem’s most comprehensive report to date on Israeli policy in the West Bank finds that Israel is using five mutually reinforcing mechanisms to dismantle Palestinian collective existence there and forcibly reorganize the territory to establish a …
Update 14 September 2026
Since Israel’s current government took office late 2022, and especially since October 2023, the assault on Palestinian life in the West Bank has intensified. Palestinians face soldiers’ and armed settlers’ violence, arrest, abuse and death. Drawing on …
Publication 14 September 2026
Since the current Israeli government took office at the end of 2022, and even more so since October 2023, Israel has dramatically escalated its assault on all aspects of Palestinian life in the West Bank. At any moment, Palestinians may be exposed to …
Update 9 September 2026
On Tuesday morning, 8 September 2026, Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by soldiers and four diggers, arrived at Khirbet al-Fakhit in Masafer Yatta and demolished five homes belonging to four families comprising 32 people, including 11 minors. …
Expulsion log 8 September 2026
On Tuesday morning, 8 September 2026, Civil Administration personnel, accompanied by soldiers and equipped with four diggers, arrived at the community of Khirbet al-Fakhit in Masafer Yatta. The forces demolished five residential structures belonging to …
Update 7 September 2026
Over a six-month period, from early December 2025 to early June 2026, Israeli armed forces in the West Bank killed nine people, including two children aged five and six, and a seven-month-old infant, in five separate incidents in which they fired without …
Article 7 September 2026
Over a six-month period, from early December 2025 to early June 2026, Israeli armed forces in the West Bank killed nine people, including two children aged five and six, and a seven-month-old infant, in five separate incidents in which they fired …
Update 16 October 2023
The community of ‘Ein a-Rashash lived by the West Bank central mountain ridge from the early 1990s to October 2023. It was home to 18 families, numbering 85 people in total, 25 of them minors. In recent years, settlers established several outposts in …
Update 2 September 2026
On Wednesday, 2 Sept., Civil Administration personnel arrived at the community of Khirbet a-Taban, in Masafer Yatta, with a military escort and diggers and demolished all 12 homes in the community leaving the residents homeless. This is the 66th …
Expulsion log 2 September 2026
On Wednesday, 2 September 2026, Civil Administration personnel arrived at the community of Khirbet a-Taban, in Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills, with a military and Border Police escort and diggers. They demolished all 12 homes in the community and …
Settler violence log 2 September 2026
On Monday, 1 December 2025, in the morning, ‘Abdallah ‘Abid, 60, arrived at his family’s land, near his house, and discovered that settlers had cut down and vandalized about 500 olive and other fruit trees and destroyed a fence about 500 meters long. He …
Settler violence log 2 September 2026
On Friday, 5 December 2025, at around 5:00 P.M., as Ishaq Jabarin was plowing farm fields northwest of his family’s home in the village of She‘b al-Batem, a settler arrived and forced him to stop. Shortly afterward, three more settlers arrived on an ATV. …
Settler violence log 2 September 2026
On Tuesday, 9 December 2025, at around 3:00 A.M., ‘Omar Shnaran, 56, woke up to loud dog barks and immediately saw that his car was on fire. Shortly afterward, he saw a group of settlers heading toward a tractor parked near the house and trying to set …
Settler violence log 2 September 2026
On Monday, 15 December 2025, and in previous days, settlers came to 62-year-old Kamel Hamamdeh’s home and adjacent land, harassed him and prevented him from plowing and cultivating the land. The settlers also called soldiers, who arrived at the scene and …
Settler violence log 2 September 2026
On Wednesday, 21 January 2026, at about 8:00 A.M., dozens of settlers armed with clubs and carrying flammable material raided a quarry belonging to ’Issam a-Safdi, from ‘Urif, and located alongside the ’Urif – ’Asirah al-Qibliyah road. The settlers burned …
Settler violence log 2 September 2026
On Monday evening, 22 December 2025, a group of about seven settlers came to the Daghamin family residence in Wadi Ejheish. The settlers tried to break the door and force their way into the family home, and when they failed, they smashed a hole in the …
Expulsion log 26 July 2023
On Wednesday morning, 26 July 2023, Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort, a bulldozer and a cement mixer at the Palestinian village of al-Hijrah, south of Hebron. The forces poured concrete into four water wells …
Update 17 August 2026
As part of the broad offensive on all aspects of Palestinian existence in the West Bank waged by Israel since October 2023 through official forces and settlers, attacks on Palestinians who make their living raising sheep, goats and cattle have …
Settler violence log 10 August 2026
On the morning of 13 May 2026, settlers, accompanied by military forces, carried out a series of attacks on three adjacent Palestinian communities: Sinjil, Jiljilya, and ‘Ebwein. First, settlers from the Al-Batan outpost arrived in the Jiljilya area and …
Settler violence log 10 August 2026
On Tuesday, 27 January 2026, at around 5:15 P.M., a settler with a flock of sheep approached the homes of Khirbet al-Halawah, one of the communities located in the area the military has declared Firing Zone 918. After a local resident began filming him …
