Category: Israeli Settlement

The United Nations High Commissioner, Volker Türk spoke before the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, addressing Israeli violations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Türk stated that…

On Sunday night illegal Israeli colonizers set fire to a number of vehicles and a mosque in the towns of Deir Dibwan and Burqa, east of Ramallah in the central…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out multiple attacks on Sunday in the Ramallah, Bethlehem and Nablus districts, assaulting Palestinian farmers and bulldozing agricultural land under the protection of Israeli occupation…

Israeli occupation forces invaded, on Sunday, the Atouf Plain east of the town of Tammun in the Tubas district in the northeastern West Bank, deploying several military vehicles as large‑scale…

On Saturday evening, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers burned four Palestinian vehicles, agricultural lands, and caused damage to several homes in the village of Jit, east of Qalqilia in the occupied…

On Saturday evening, Israeli occupation soldiers injured a Palestinian child in the head and caused several residents to suffer the effects of toxic tear‑gas inhalation in the village of Deir…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of attacks on Saturday across the occupied West Bank, invading homes, targeting a utility crew, and stealing essential infrastructure in incidents that…

Jerusalem – June 12, 2026 – Archbishop Atallah Hanna, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia, warned that the West Bank has effectively turned into “a large prison,” as illegal paramilitary Israeli…

Four Palestinian citizens were wounded, including one seriously, during a settler attack in the village of Deir Abu Mash’al, northwest of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank. According to…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers and Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple attacks on Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, targeting agricultural land, civilian vehicles, and residential areas…

Israeli occupation authorities issued a new military order on Wednesday informing Palestinian residents of plans to seize additional areas of privately owned land belonging to the villages of Shufa and…

Fr. Bashar Fawadleh, Parish Priest of LPJ in Taybeh: Yesterday evening, Tuesday at approximately 8:30 p.m., we were subjected to yet another attack – one that was complex, alarming, and difficult…

On Tuesday, Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers set fire to agricultural land on a hillside at the outskirts of the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh, east of Ramallah in the central…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out multiple coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, injuring residents, abducting others, and destroying essential infrastructure in several…

Israeli occupation forces demolished two structures and a commercial kiosk in the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, on Tuesday, in the latest incident…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers began, on Monday, extensive bulldozing, and road‑cutting operations on privately owned Palestinian lands in the town of Aboud, west of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank’s…

Israeli bulldozers began, on Monday, extensive land‑clearing and leveling operations around Qalandia Refugee Camp and the nearby town of Kafr ‘Aqab, north of occupied Jerusalem, as part of preparations for…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank on Monday, targeting Palestinian vehicles, agricultural infrastructure, and a Bedouin community in several districts, including…

Israeli colonizers, backed by Israeli occupation forces, carried out a series of coordinated attacks across several areas of the occupied West Bank on Sunday, targeting Palestinian homes, vehicles, and agricultural…

Israeli occupation authorities issued a new military order on Sunday to seize 208 dunams of Palestinian‑owned land in the Tubas governorate, in the northeastern West Bank, further expanding long‑standing Israeli…

Israeli occupation authorities forced a Palestinian resident of Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, to tear down his own home on Sunday, continuing a long‑standing policy that leaves…

Israeli occupation authorities on Sunday compelled two brothers from the At‑Tur neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem to demolish their own residential building, the Jerusalem Governorate reported. According to the governorate, the…

By Maysa Omar, Published in Arabic By WAFA News: On a hill overlooking the village of Jinsafut, east of Qalqilia, nearly 50 dunams of agricultural land in the western area…

France is coordinating with several European countries to impose nationally aligned sanctions on Israeli colonizers involved in attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, diplomats told Reuters, as Western…

Israeli occupation forces abducted a Palestinian driver and his passengers on Saturday evening after an Israeli colonizer was slightly injured at the entrance of the illegal colony of Efrat, south…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers continued on Saturday their widespread assaults across the occupied West Bank, including attacks on farmers, invasions of towns and villages, abductions, and…

At least nine Palestinian civilians were injured on Saturday, including one shot in the head, when illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, launched a coordinated attack on the…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out multiple assaults across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, including movement restrictions, home invasions, abductions, injuries, the destruction of agricultural…

The seven‑month‑old infant Sam Fahed Abu Haikal was slain on Friday after Israeli soldiers opened fire at his family’s vehicle, injuring both parents, in the Tel Romeida area of Hebron…

Two Palestinian citizens were injured on Friday during assaults carried out by Israeli soldiers and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers in the Jalayta area, east of Ethna town, west of Hebron…

Israeli occupation forces invaded a Palestinian home in Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah, on Friday, detaining its residents in a single room after they confronted a group of illegal paramilitary Israeli…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers assaulted two Palestinian youths guarding an agricultural well in the Atouf area, southeast of Tubas in the northeastern occupied West Bank, before sabotaging the facility and…

Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple dawn invasions across the occupied West Bank on Friday, breaking into homes, ransacking property, and abducting Palestinians, while illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers simultaneously attacked…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers severely assaulted a Palestinian man on Thursday night in the village of Ad Duyuk al Tahta, west of Jericho in the northeastern West Bank. Local sources…

An illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizer attacked dozens of Palestinian children on Thursday evening while they were training at the village playground in Shuqba, west of Ramallah in the central West…

Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple invasions across several areas of the occupied West Bank on Thursday, breaking into homes, assaulting residents, abducting Palestinians, and tightening movement restrictions in the…

Israeli occupation forces carried out extensive invasions across several cities, towns, and refugee camps in the occupied West Bank at dawn and throughout Thursday morning, breaking into homes, assaulting residents,…

Illegal Israeli colonizers set fire to Palestinian lands and stole water tanks from a citizen’s home near Ramallah in the central West Bank, and damaged water lines in occupied Jerusalem,…

Illegal Israeli colonizers carried out a number of attacks against Palestinians and their properties in the governorates of Nablus, Hebron, and Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources reported…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank overnight and early Wednesday, accompanied by a series of assaults by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers targeting Palestinian residents…

Israeli occupation forces issued a new military order on Tuesday to seize dozens of dunams of Palestinian‑owned land east of Tubas, further expanding the army’s control over agricultural areas in…

Israeli occupation authorities issued a new military order on Tuesday to seize 300 dunams of Palestinian‑owned land in the Jabal al‑Freydis area on the lands of Arab al‑Ta’amra, east of…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks on Tuesday across several areas of the occupied West Bank, burning agricultural lands, destroying crops, and stealing livestock in…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank at dawn Tuesday, including arson, assaults on Palestinian vehicles, land seizures, and the establishment of new colonial…

UN Special Rapporteurs have issued one of their strongest warnings to date, stating that Israeli‑backed colonizer violence in the occupied Palestinian territory has reached “unprecedented” levels in 2026 and now…

Three Palestinian children from the village of Abwein, northwest of Ramallah, were injured on Monday when illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked their father’s vehicle near the Shilo colony on the…

Israeli occupation authorities are advancing a new round of large‑scale colonial construction across the occupied West Bank, moving forward with thousands of additional housing units in illegal colonies as part…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers established a new colonial outpost on Monday near the town of al‑‘Auja, north of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. Hassan Mleihat,…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers chased students from Kisan School, east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, on Sunday as they were walking home. Local sources said a group of…

A Palestinian student was injured on Sunday morning after an illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizer rammed her with a vehicle on the main road of Al‑Lubban ash‑Sharqiya, south of Nablus in…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out multiple attacks on Saturday targeting Palestinian homes and vehicles in the Nablus and Ramallah districts, wounding a young man, and causing extensive property damage…

Illegal Israeli colonizers wounded at least seven Palestinians, on Saturday, after invading the village of Madama, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks at dawn Saturday across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank, targeting Palestinian farmers, agricultural lands, and residential neighborhoods…

On Friday, a Palestinian citizen was forced to demolish his own home in Qalandia village, north of occupied Jerusalem, leaving seven people without shelter. Media sources reported that the citizen…

Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple invasions across the occupied West Bank at dawn Friday, breaking into homes, abducting residents, and deploying in several districts, while illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers…

Israeli occupation forces continued their violations across several areas of the occupied West Bank on Thursday, including invasions, abductions, military roadblocks, and attacks targeting Palestinian civilians and property. In Tulkarem,…

Israeli colonizer groups carried out several coordinated attacks and expansion activities today across the Nablus district in the northern occupied West Bank, targeting Palestinian property in multiple locations under the…

The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission announced Thursday that Israeli occupation authorities have approved a large‑scale colonial master plan for the illegal colony of Masu’a, built on Palestinian lands in…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal colonizers carried out a series of coordinated violations across several communities in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part, including…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across several West Bank districts at dawn Thursday, storming homes, assaulting residents, and abducting many Palestinians, including women and children, while Israeli colonizers—escorted…

Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of assaults on Palestinian families across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, including the beating of a woman and her child in Masafer…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank and occupied Jerusalem at dawn on Wednesday, breaking into homes, assaulting residents, and abducting several Palestinians,…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers burned a Palestinian vehicle and part of a home on Wednesday morning in Khirbet Masoud, south of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank. Local sources…

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory Francesca Albanese announced Monday that she is withdrawing from the Hay Festival in protest of the event’s partnership with…

A video recorded days earlier near the Armenian Monastery in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem shows an Israeli colonizer desecrating the site, an act condemned by the Jerusalem Governorate…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, destroying olive trees, vandalizing cemeteries, targeting isolated Palestinian communities, and damaging vehicles and…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers, backed by the Israeli occupation army, carried out a series of coordinated attacks on Palestinians and their property across several areas of the occupied West Bank…

Nine Western states issued a joint statement on Friday urging the Israeli government to immediately halt its colonial expansion across the occupied West Bank, warning in particular against advancing the…

Illegal Israeli colonizers invaded a citizen’s home on Friday evening, and stormed the area near the town of Sa’ir, northeast of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. According to…

Israeli violations escalated across the occupied West Bank on Friday, with illegal paramilitary colonizers carrying out a series of coordinated attacks, home takeovers, and property destruction in multiple areas, particularly…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, targeting Palestinian schoolchildren, vehicles, livestock, homes, and agricultural areas, while Israeli forces simultaneously…

Israeli paramilitary colonizer groups carried out multiple coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, targeting Palestinian homes, infrastructure, agricultural areas, and religious sites in a continued escalation of…

Israeli occupation forces bulldozed hundreds of dunams of Palestinian agricultural land on Tuesday in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part. Local…

Illegal Israeli colonizers kidnapped a Palestinian citizen and assaulted others on Tuesday, in the West Bank governorates of Tubas, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron. Media sources reported that illegal colonizers stormed…

The head of the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, Minister Muayyad Sha’ban, warned Tuesday that the decision signed by fanatic Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich to advance the eviction and displacement…

Israeli occupation forces shot and injured a 14‑year‑old Palestinian child on Sunday evening during a military invasion of Silwad, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central region. Raed…

Israeli occupation forces abducted several Palestinians, including two children and an elderly man, late Saturday after illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers assaulted residents in Jerusalem’s Old City. Media sources said soldiers…

Israeli occupation authorities forced a Palestinian resident of Jabal al‑Mukabber in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank, to demolish his own home on Saturday, after issuing him a final demolition…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, injuring several Palestinians, destroying agricultural property, and stealing livestock, all under the…

On Friday, Israeli occupation authorities forced a Palestinian woman to demolish her own home in occupied Jerusalem, continuing the long‑standing policy of coercing Palestinian residents to carry out self‑demolitions under…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers set a Palestinian vehicle and rooms on fire and smashed the windows of two others on Friday evening during an attack on the outskirts of the…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of violent attacks across the occupied West Bank on Friday, burning a mosque, assaulting residents, attempting to steal livestock, vandalizing property, and…

Israeli occupation authorities on Thursday began construction on the roof of the historic Hebron Municipality building in the Ein al‑Askar area of the Old City of Hebron in the southern…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of violent, coordinated assaults on Thursday across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank, including Hebron in the southern West Bank, the…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers injured a Palestinian man and an international peace activist on Wednesday evening after attacking residential structures in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron. Activist Osama…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers assaulted a Palestinian mother and her young daughter on Wednesday during an attack on the village of Burin, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank’s…

Vatican News – By Joseph Tulloch: Vatican News last spoke to Ihab Hassan in July 2025, as a wave of Israeli settler violence was engulfing Taybeh, the last entirely Christian village…

Israeli occupation forces killed, on Wednesday, a Palestinian child in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, after groups of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded several areas southeast of Bethlehem on Wednesday, carrying out provocations against Palestinian residents under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. Media sources said groups of…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked the Tibna Bedouin community near Khan al‑Ahmar, east of occupied Jerusalem, on Wednesday, assaulting residents under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. The Jerusalem Governorate…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked the town of Sinjil and the nearby village of Jaljulia, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, on Wednesday morning, assaulting Palestinian…

Thousands of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, accompanied by large numbers of occupation soldiers and government officials, invaded the Joseph’s Tomb area east of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank’s northern…

Marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported that the global Palestinian population has reached 15.5 million, including 7.4 million living in Palestine and…

Israeli occupation authorities forced a Palestinian resident of Silwan, south of the Al‑Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, to demolish his own residential room on Tuesday, continuing a long‑standing policy that…

A report by Israel’s Channel 14 stating that land‑ownership claims have been “regularized” for the colonial council of Beit El, near Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, has raised…

On Monday evening, a group of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked several Palestinian cars east of Ramallah, in the central part of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said the…

European Union foreign ministers reached a political agreement on Monday to impose a new round of sanctions targeting Israeli colonizers involved in attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank,…

Israeli occupation forces demolished dozens of industrial and commercial structures in the al‑Mashtal area of al‑‘Ezariya, southeast of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, on Monday evening, despite an active…