Whereas a lot of the globe’s consideration stays on the Gaza ceasefire deal, lower than 33 kilometres (21 miles) away, Israeli settlers, usually backed by troopers, proceed each day assaults and raids throughout the occupied West Financial institution.
On Monday night time, Israeli settlers uprooted 150 olive timber within the village of Bardala, within the northern Jordan Valley, destroying the livelihood of a number of households.
Settlers often seize Bardala’s land, burn property and destroy crops in an effort to take over Palestinian land, develop unlawful Israeli settlements, and intimidate native communities into leaving.
Earlier on Monday, settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, injuring a number of of them. Witnesses stated the attackers hurled stones, sicced canines on individuals, and set fireplace to autos.
Settler assaults on the rise
Since Israel’s warfare on Gaza started in October 2023, violence by Israeli settlers within the occupied West Financial institution has steadily risen.
In line with knowledge from the United Nations Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), settlers have attacked Palestinians practically 3,000 occasions within the occupied West Financial institution over the previous two years.
The variety of settler assaults has risen sharply since 2016, with 852 recorded in 2022, 1,291 in 2023 and 1,449 in 2024.
With greater than 1,000 assaults within the first eight months of 2025, this yr is on observe to turn out to be essentially the most violent but.
Settler assaults usually escalate through the olive harvest season from September to November, an important time of yr that gives a key supply of livelihood for a lot of Palestinian households.
Who’re the Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians?
Israeli settlements are Jewish-only communities built on Palestinian land that Israel occupied in 1967.
At this time, between 600,000 and 750,000 settlers reside in additional than 250 settlements and outposts throughout the occupied West Financial institution and East Jerusalem. Many of those are close to Palestinian cities and villages, usually resulting in heightened tensions and extreme motion restrictions for Palestinians.
Settlers are sometimes armed and continuously accompanied or protected by Israeli troopers. Along with destroying Palestinian property, they’ve carried out arson assaults and killed Palestinian residents.
The place have settlers attacked within the occupied West Financial institution?
Each West Financial institution governorate has confronted settler assaults over the previous two years. Knowledge from OCHA exhibits that between January 2024 and August 2025, the Ramallah and el-Bireh governorate recorded the very best variety of settler assaults with 634 incidents, adopted by Nablus with 501 and Hebron with 462.
A lot of the settler assaults are in Space C, which makes up greater than 60 p.c of the occupied West Financial institution, and are concentrated close to Israeli settlements and outposts.
Underneath the 1993 Oslo Accords, the occupied West Financial institution was divided into three zones: Space A, beneath full Palestinian Authority (PA) management; Space B, beneath PA administrative authority and Israeli safety management; and Space C, managed completely by Israel.
Greater than 1,000 Palestinians killed within the West Financial institution
Since October 7, 2023, greater than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed and practically 10,000 injured throughout the occupied West Financial institution by Israeli forces and armed settlers, based on UN figures.
In 2025 alone, OCHA has documented not less than 178 Palestinian deaths linked to settler and navy violence. The victims embrace farmers, kids and residents caught in near-daily raids and assaults on villages and refugee camps.
Settler violence has additionally pushed widespread displacement. A minimum of 3,434 Palestinians have been pressured from their properties attributable to settler violence and entry restrictions for the reason that warfare in Gaza started.
