Gaza Genocide07 May, 20262 min read
Israeli Colonists Establish New Colonial Outpost Near Bruqin Schools West of Salfit
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Israeli colonists established a new colonial outpost northwest of Bruqin west of Salfit. The outpost is about 100 meters from Bruqin Girls and Boys Basic Schools.
Outpost near Salfit
Israeli colonists established a new colonial outpost to the northwest of Bruqin town, west of the occupied West Bank city of Salfit, according to a researcher cited by WAFA on Thursday, May 7, 2026. WAFA said the outpost was laid out south of the bypass Road 60, about 100 meters from the Bruqin Girls and Boys Basic Schools and about 50 meters from inhabitants’ houses.
The WAFA report also said Road 60 connects the Bruchin and Beduel colonies, both built on land belonging to the town, and described the outpost as posing a direct threat to inhabitants and school students. In a separate report, SadaNews said the settlers began establishing the outpost near the town's schools and citizens' homes northwest of Burqin west of Salfit, and stated that the step was part of escalating colonial expansion on Burqin’s lands.
Human rights framing
Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth said a report published on Tuesday, April 27 concluded that crimes of apartheid and persecution are being committed by the Israeli government against a portion of the Palestinian population. Roth told Le Monde that Human Rights Watch based its findings on “two years of investigation and two decades of work in Israel and in the occupied territories,” and said the term apartheid is applied “to international law.”
In the same Le Monde interview, Roth described three elements contributing to such a crime as “the intent by a racial group to dominate another, systematic oppression, and the perpetration of certain inhumane acts.” The Chronique de Palestine account tied the broader escalation in the occupied West Bank to plans to split the territory in two, describing an “Iron Wall” offensive and citing killings including Omar Saadeh, a 14-year-old Palestinian-American citizen, killed when Israeli forces opened fire on April 7 in Turmusayya.
Escalation and wider stakes
Chronique de Palestine said Israeli forces intensified their offensive last week in the occupied West Bank, in cities and Palestinian refugee camps, killing three Palestinians, and it described the campaign as an accelerated prelude to Israel’s planned annexation of the West Bank. The same report said Israeli forces shot dead Palestinian woman Aminah Yaaqoub, 30, at an Israeli checkpoint near Salfit on Tuesday, April 8, and it added that the killings brought the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or settlers since October 2023 to “over 800.”
Chronique de Palestine also described a raid in the Dheisheh refugee camp south of Bethlehem that lasted more than seven hours, with house-to-house searches and multiple kidnappings, and said Israeli forces dropped leaflets threatening “the same fate as Tulkarem and Jenin” if residents housed resistance fighters. In parallel, the WAFA report on the outpost near Salfit said approximately 1 million Israeli colonists are living in colonies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of international law, framing the outpost as part of intensified colonial expansion on town land.