B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights group, said in a 249-page report published on Tuesday that Tel Aviv is working to erase Palestinian life in the West Bank far more obviously than before the Hamas attack in 2023, and said its effort relies heavily on “cooperation between official state authorities and settler militias operating in the West Bank with state backing and support,” according to a report in Haaretz.
A group of ‘rogue’ Israeli ‘settlers’ (land-stealers) have been harassing Palestinians living in the West Bank and have been using rudimentary intimidation tactics to get these residents to the point where they decide to pick up and move, according to a report last week in The Wall Street Journal.
Israeli ‘settlers’ have besieged homes in the hilltop town of Qusra in the West Bank for over a week, and residents said the IDF, which is supposed to intervene in these attacks, did nothing to stop it.
Israel has killed at least 73,333 Palestinians and wounded another 174,023 since the start of its genocidal war in Gaza in October 2023.
The West Bank saw one of its most violent days in the past year on Friday in a shooting that left four Palestinians and two Israelis dead when so-called settlers attacked a village, The New York Times reported, citing Palestinian officials.
Israel killed at least 72,283 Palestinians and injured 173,864 since the genocidal war started in October 2023. The death toll includes the 1,168 Palestinians who were killed since the so-called ceasefire took effect on 10 October 2025.
Israel has killed at least 73,231 and more than 173,600 people have been injured since the start of the genocidal war in Gaza in October 2023.
The Israeli government is working to quickly build housing developments on nearly 60 empty locations throughout the occupied West Bank just in time for the October elections in what an Israeli human rights organization identified as a “reckless pre-election sprint” that will leave a “scorched-earth policy for the next government,” The New York Times reported.
Living conditions inside Gaza are horrible and many displaced Palestinians have been forced to live among the rats and other rodents in the bombed-out enclave, according to a report last week.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said last week that Israel will continue to steal land inside Gaza, and is no longer hiding the fact that the land seizure is his goal.