The occupied West Bank witnessed an unprecedented surge in violence by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers—during October 2025, marking the highest monthly toll in nearly two decades, the United Nations said.
According to United Nations data, 264 attacks were documented last month alone, resulting in Palestinian fatalities, injuries, and widespread property destruction.
UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq cited figures from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), confirming a sharp escalation in colonizer assaults targeting Palestinian civilians, homes, vehicles, and agricultural infrastructure.
Since 2006, OCHA has recorded approximately 6,900 colonizer attacks, with nearly 1,500—over 15%—occurring in 2025.
📌 UN: West Bank Sees Record Settler Violence, Dozens of Children Killed in 2025
October marked the highest monthly number of Israeli settler attacks since UN monitoring began in 2006, with over 260 incidents, an average of eight per day.
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The violations have displaced at least 3,200 Palestinians from their land, with many killed by live fire, hundreds injured, and countless others losing their livelihoods.
OCHA also reported that 42 Palestinian children were killed this year in attacks by Israeli occupation forces and colonizers, representing one in every five child fatalities in the West Bank.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission documented 766 colonizer attacks in October alone, concentrated in the districts of Ramallah and Al-Bireh (195), Nablus (179), and Hebron (126). These included 352 incidents of theft and vandalism targeting Palestinian property and farmland.
Among the victims was Jihad Mohammad Ajaj, 26, from Deir Jarir, who was shot and killed by colonizers in a direct armed assault. His death brings the number of Palestinians killed by colonizer gunfire since the start of 2025 to 14.
Colonizer violence, often carried out with the backing of Israeli occupation forces, also led to the uprooting, burning, and poisoning of over 1,200 olive trees—an emblem of Palestinian heritage and sustenance.
In the early hours of Saturday morning, Israeli colonizers set fire to a Palestinian home in the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
On Friday, Israeli colonizers demolished residential tents and livestock shelters belonging to Palestinian residents in Khirbet Hamsa, in the northern Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, on Friday.
On Thursday, Israeli colonizers carried out a number of attacks, injuring a child and destroying olive trees, after targeting Palestinians and their property, in the occupied West Bank.
Furthermore, Israeli colonizers invaded the Bedouin community of Al-Hathrawa near Khan al-Ahmar, east of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, and demolished four mobile homes used by local families.
It is worth mentioning that, on Wednesday, Israeli occupation authorities issued two new tenders for the construction of a colonial neighborhood in the illegal colony of Adam (Givat Binyamin), built on stolen Palestinian land northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits collective punishment and acts of terror against civilian populations.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory”.
Articles 53 and 147, prohibit the destruction of civilian property and classify pillage as a war crime.
