Category: Israeli Settlement

Israeli authorities have approved two plans for 567 new colonial units in the Hebron governorate, in the southern occupied West Bank, amid an accelerated expansion of illegal colonies and colonial…

Israeli occupation authorities issued a tender on Thursday for the construction of 400 colonial units in the Karnei Shomron colony, built on stolen Palestinian land east of Qalqilia, in the…

On Thursday, Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks in several parts of the occupied West Bank, setting fire to Palestinian-owned vehicles and agricultural land, spray-painting racist slogans on…

The Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) reported that international officials meeting at United Nations headquarters called for urgent action to protect Palestinian children and safeguard their rights, education, health,…

A colonizer shot and injured a Palestinian worker near Umm Qissa in Masafer Yatta, in the southern occupied West Bank, on Wednesday. In separate attacks, colonizers blocked the road to…

On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers and colonizers carried out widespread invasions and attacks across the occupied West Bank, abducting Palestinians, breaking into and ransacking homes, closing roads, damaging farmland, and attacking…

On Tuesday, the Israeli occupation army issued two military orders to uproot olive trees and other vegetation from Palestinian lands in Jenin and Qabatia, in the northern occupied West Bank.…

Israeli colonizer attacks were reported across the occupied West Bank early Tuesday, targeting Palestinian towns, homes, vehicles, and livestock. In Yatta, south of Hebron, colonizers attacked a Palestinian family’s home…

Israeli colonizers, accompanied by occupation forces, attacked Palestinians, vehicles, and homes across several communities northeast of Ramallah on Monday evening, while military roadblocks further restricted movement in the area. Local…

Israeli forces and illegal Israeli colonizers escalated their attacks across the occupied West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, on Sunday. At least four Palestinians were wounded, while Israeli forces invaded communities,…

An Israeli colonizer was killed Sunday in a shooting near the illegal Neveh Tzuf colony, west of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank. The Israeli army later abducted a…

Israeli forces invaded communities across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, abducting Palestinians, breaking into homes, establishing military roadblocks, and restricting travel, while Israeli colonizers attacked residents, property, livestock, and…

Israeli occupation forces invaded towns and cities across the occupied West Bank before dawn on Saturday, breaking into homes, assaulting and detaining Palestinians, and firing live rounds and gas bombs.…

Israeli forces and colonizers intensified attacks across the occupied West Bank on Friday, injuring several Palestinians, targeting property, and carrying out widespread military invasions. Israeli forces abducted at least nine…

A Palestinian man was injured Friday after illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked families in the Khirbet Allan area of Al‑Jiftlik, north of Jericho. In separate incidents, colonizers attacked Palestinians and…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out attacks across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, abducting Palestinians, establishing military roadblocks, firing tear gas, and attacking residents, vehicles,…

Early Thursday, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers set fire to farmland in Burqa, east of Ramallah, and burned an agricultural structure in Eghzeiwa, east of Yatta and south of Hebron. Media…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers carried out widespread attacks across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, including abductions, lethal assaults, home demolitions, land seizures, and repeated attacks on…

Israeli occupation forces deployed soldiers by helicopter at dawn Wednesday during a large-scale invasion of Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank. A large number of soldiers…

In the occupied West Bank on Tuesday evening, Israeli forces shot and wounded a couple in Jenin, while colonizers torched property in Burqa and soldiers tightened road restrictions near Abu…

Israeli colonizers established a new illegal colonial outpost Tuesday on land belonging to Palestinians from Beit Iksa, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The Khirbet al-Alawna site is…

Israeli forces abducted at least 21 Palestinians during the documented invasions, while local sources reported additional women abducted in Fahma without specifying their number. Soldiers also seriously injured a Palestinian…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out attacks on Monday, September 14, invading a village, attempting to steal livestock, attacking Palestinian vehicles, and expanding an illegal colonial outpost east of Ramallah,…

Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said he believed Parliament would approve Norway’s proposed restrictions on trade and business activities linked to Israeli colonies this autumn, according to an interview…

Israeli forces abducted thirteen Palestinians, including a father and son, during West Bank invasions on Monday and injured another father and son during a home search. Israeli colonizers also carried…

The Wall and Colonization Resistance Commission reported that Israeli planning authorities advanced 100 colonial plans covering 12,300 units across the occupied West Bank between January 1 and September 13, 2026.…

On Sunday, September 13, 2026, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers injured two Palestinian men in Salfit Governorate. Additional attacks targeting Palestinian communities, agricultural lands, and property were reported across the occupied…

Israeli forces continued their violations across the occupied West Bank and occupied Jerusalem on Saturday, abducting several Palestinians, injuring one resident with live fire, seizing property, and forcing a Jerusalemite…

An elderly man and a child were injured, at dawn on Saturday, during the Israeli occupation forces’ storming of the village of Marka, south of Jenin, while six Palestinian citizens…

On Friday, Israeli colonists opened fire on Palestinian citizens on a farm east of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, after citizens attempted to repel a colonial attack targeting a poultry farm.…

Israeli forces abducted at least 28 Palestinians on Thursday during a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank. The operations included breaking into and searching homes and installing military…

Israeli forces invaded areas across the occupied West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, early Wednesday, abducting Palestinians and breaking into homes. Israeli forces also demolished homes, commercial shops, agricultural structures, greenhouses,…

Israel’s decision to close the British Consulate in occupied East Jerusalem and withdraw its diplomats’ accreditation has intensified tensions with the United Kingdom. The action follows British measures targeting trade…

Twelve countries have announced that they will introduce national restrictions, support European restrictions or actively consider measures involving trade in goods produced in Israeli colonies in the occupied Palestinian territory,…

During military invasions across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces abducted dozens of Palestinians, including a woman and two children. The incidents were reported in the Tulkarem,…

Israeli forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank on Monday, according to local and medical sources. The reported incidents included land…

On Monday, Israeli soldiers fatally shot a Palestinian near Osarin, east of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, following an alleged stabbing that seriously wounded an Israeli colonizer. Update:…

An Israeli colonizer was seriously wounded Sunday morning in a stabbing incident near Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, according to Israeli media reports. Israeli sources said a person…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers killed a Palestinian young man and injured two others, one critically, on Sunday night, in the village of Hajjah, east of Qalqilia in the northwestern part…

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian child in Qalqilia and a man in Jenin with live ammunition early Sunday as soldiers invaded communities across the occupied West Bank. The invasions included…

Israeli occupation forces and colonizers continued attacks across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, assaulting a Palestinian, abducting others, restricting farmers’ access to their land and forcing a Palestinian resident…

Israeli forces invaded communities across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, broke into and ransacked homes, abducted four Palestinians, restricted movement and opened fire in several areas, according to local…

Israeli authorities have ordered the seizure of 7.498 dunums of Palestinian land in Qabatia, south of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, under an urgent military order issued on…

Israeli forces and colonizers escalated their attacks across the occupied West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, on Friday, carrying out military invasions, breaking into homes, abducting Palestinians, and assaulting communities. Israeli…

Israeli forces carried out invasions across the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, early Friday, abducting Palestinians, breaking into homes, restricting movement, and shooting a child in Bethlehem, while colonizers injured…

Israeli forces abducted 19 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, including municipal employees. Soldiers also shot and injured two children in Bethlehem, issued demolition notices in Jenin in…

Israeli forces abducted a Palestinian man from Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part, on Thursday, while illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers assaulted and injured a…

The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education condemned the killing of two Palestinian students during an invasion by Israeli forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers in the town of Al‑Mughayyir,…

Israeli forces carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank at dawn Thursday, breaking into and ransacking homes, abducting numerous Palestinians, and damaging property in several governorates. In the…

Israeli colonizers, with the cooperation of occupation forces, killed two Palestinians on Wednesday evening, in the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah in the central West Bank. Media sources reported…

Israeli occupation forces continued, for the fourth consecutive day, the destruction of Palestinian agricultural lands west of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit in the central occupied West Bank, as bulldozers…

Israeli occupation forces invaded multiple communities across the occupied West Bank and occupied Jerusalem before dawn Wednesday, breaking into homes, abducting several Palestinians, and carrying out searches and field interrogations,…

Israeli forces and colonizers carried out a series of invasions and attacks across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, targeting Palestinian communities, homes, farmland, vehicles and other property in Bethlehem,…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attempted to set fire to a mosque early Tuesday in the town of Bizzariya, northwest of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. Colonizers also attacked…

Israeli forces uprooted dozens of olive trees on Tuesday along both sides of the road connecting the towns of Arraba and Ya’bad, southwest of Jenin in the northern occupied West…

Israeli soldiers and colonizers carried out attacks and other violations across the occupied West Bank on Monday, including invasions, abductions, demolitions, land bulldozing, property seizures, and attacks against Palestinian communities.…

A Palestinian Christian family has been forced to leave its home in Taybeh, east of Ramallah in the central West Bank, after months of attacks, threats, and property damage by…

Israeli forces, protecting illegal colonizers, shot four Palestinian citizens and injured others, on Sunday, in the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank. Media sources…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers seized a public Palestinian park in the Wadi Hamad area of Kafr Ni’ma, west of Ramallah in the central West Bank, on Sunday. They installed an…

On Sunday morning, Israeli occupation forces began bulldozing dozens of dunams of Palestinian-owned land in the Wadi ar-Rayat area, west of Deir Ballut, in the Salfit governorate of the central…

Illegal Israeli colonizers carried out attacks across the occupied West Bank. They injured Palestinians; assaulted farmers, residents, journalists, and international activists; attacked homes and agricultural lands; damaged property; obstructed medical…

Large groups of illegal Israeli colonizers stormed several areas in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, injuring many Palestinian civilians and 2 foreign journalists. Media sources reported that several colonizers…

Illegal Israeli colonizers assaulted two Palestinians and soldiers shot one, on Friday evening, in the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah. In another attack, a group of colonizers assaulted a…

Israeli forces invaded communities across the occupied West Bank early Friday, abducting two Palestinians and breaking into homes, while illegal paramilitary colonizers attacked several communities. In the Qalandia refugee camp,…

Israeli forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers escalated violations across the occupied West Bank on Thursday through widespread invasions, abductions, shootings, land confiscation, demolition orders, and attacks targeting Palestinians, their homes,…

Israeli forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers continued violations across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, carrying out a series of incursions, abductions, property seizures, demolition notices, road closures, and attacks…

On Wednesday, the Israeli occupation municipality began converting the seized UNRWA-run Qalandia Vocational Training Center in Kafr Aqab, north of occupied Jerusalem, into what it called “a municipal educational complex,”…

Israeli forces invaded multiple communities across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday evening and at night, abducting Palestinians, breaking into homes and commercial properties, installing military roadblocks, and carrying out…

Israeli forces abducted several Palestinians during early Tuesday military incursions across the occupied West Bank, while illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers separately attacked infrastructure, homes, and residents. In Nablus in the…

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) – August 22, 2026 – Under the protection of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), Israeli settlers continue to carry out attacks against Palestinian civilians…

On Saturday, illegal Israeli colonizers assaulted four Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank governorates of Jenin, Tubas, and Hebron. In Ramallah, colonizers rammed a Palestinian citizen’s vehicle, while another…

Illegal Israeli colonizers killed a Palestinian teen and wounded an elderly man on Friday, after invading the “Hamroush” area in the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron in the southern…

Israeli forces abducted ten Palestinians during overnight and early Friday invasions in Tubas, Nablus, Jenin, Bethlehem and Hebron, while illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked a quarry and torched equipment south…

Colonizers Intensify Qusra Siege and Seizures Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, backed by occupation soldiers, have intensified their assaults on the Palestinian village of Qusra, southeast of Nablus, in the northern…

Israeli occupation forces demolished three Palestinian homes belonging to the Alqam family on Wednesday in the Al-Ashqariya neighborhood of Beit Hanina, north of occupied Jerusalem, while also uprooting trees and…

Palestinian residents reported a series of attacks by Israeli colonizers across the occupied West Bank, including the burning of a family home in the southern West Bank, invasions of Palestinian…

Forty-seven Palestinian families in the northern Jordan Valley are facing the risk of displacement after Israeli forces and colonizers cut water supplies serving their communities, Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem…

On Monday, 17 August 2026, UN News reported that the continuing siege of Palestinian families and attacks by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers in the occupied West Bank were depriving residents…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out attacks across the occupied West Bank on Monday, detaining and assaulting Palestinians, damaging property and water infrastructure, burning agricultural land, and expanding colonial infrastructure…

Israeli activists from Combatants for Peace joined Palestinian landowners in Beit Sahour, east of Bethlehem, after Israeli colonizers from the nearby Yatziv outpost invaded their land. About 70 Israeli and…

August 17, 2026 – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the unprecedented escalation of Israeli settler crimes and attacks, carried out with the participation…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank early Monday, abducting dozens of Palestinians, including former political prisoners. The soldiers broke into and searched dozens of…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers continued the attacks across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, assaulting Palestinian residents and targeting homes, vehicles, agricultural land, water infrastructure, livestock, and stone-cutting equipment. Colonizers…

Two Palestinians were shot with live ammunition, and eight others were injured in beatings early Sunday during an attack by illegal Israeli colonizers, accompanied by Israeli occupation forces, in the…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, targeting Palestinian residents, municipal workers, homes, and vehicles. During the incidents, Israeli occupation…

By Jawid Tamimi, WAFA News: Standing outside the home he had been working to complete for his upcoming marriage, 26-year-old Palestinian nurse Mohammad Nabil Al-Mutawir never imagined that a moment…

Israeli paramilitary colonizers on Friday renewed their siege of three Palestinian families in Ras Al-Ein, Qusra, southeast of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, as the standoff entered its…

Several Palestinians were injured on Friday as illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers and Israeli occupation forces carried out attacks across the occupied West Bank, including shootings near Hebron, assaults and abductions,…

In two separate incidents, three Palestinians sustained live gunshot injuries in the southern West Bank governorates of Bethlehem, where soldiers shot a child, and Hebron, where colonizers shot two others,…

On Friday, Israeli forces blocked solidarity activists from approaching a besieged home in the “Ras al-Ain” area of Qusra village, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank. A number…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers settlers, protected by the Israeli army, opened fire on Friday at activists and landowners gathered in the Harasa area of Beit Sahour, north of the Bethlehem,…

Israeli occupation forces demolished 20 seasonal shelters used by Palestinian farmers in the Al-Makhrouq area of Al-Jiftlik village, north of Jericho in the occupied Jordan Valley, on Thursday, local officials…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, injuring Palestinians, stealing livestock and property, damaging homes and farmland, and installing mobile…

The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem warned that illegal paramilitary colonizers are attempting to forcibly displace two Palestinian families from their homes in the town of Qusra, south of Nablus…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday. They broke into towns, villages, and refugee camps; abducted Palestinians; demolished homes…

Israeli forces carried out extensive pre‑dawn invasions across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, breaking into homes, abducting residents and demolishing houses and residential buildings. Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers also…

Palestinian officials and local sources reported multiple attacks by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers and soldiers on water infrastructure, farmland, and villages across the occupied West Bank, Tuesday. Colonizers, accompanied by…

Israeli military operations have devastated farmland, water sources, and tree cover across the occupied West Bank and Gaza, according to Palestinian officials, researchers, and multiple UN agencies. The destruction has…

On Tuesday morning, Israeli forces detonated the home of a slain Palestinian man in the town of Tell, southwest of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank. Local sources reported…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of assaults across the occupied West Bank and occupied Jerusalem on Monday, invading Palestinian communities, burning homes and farmland, attacking residents, destroying…