West Bank16 August, 20262 min read
OCHA Says Israeli Settler Attacks Exceed 3,000 in West Bank Since 2025
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UN reports around 3,000 settler attacks in the West Bank since 2025. Attacks have caused injuries and property damage to Palestinians.
OCHA tallies 3,000 attacks
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said more than 3,000 Israeli settler attacks resulting in Palestinian casualties or property damage were recorded in the West Bank between the start of 2025 and the end of June 2026. SANA said OCHA reported that settler violence increasingly affected Palestinian communities across the West Bank, particularly in rural areas and communities near Israeli settlements. SANA also linked the attacks to continued settlement expansion, home demolitions, and the forced displacement of Palestinians.
In parallel, Al-Manar TV Lebanon cited OCHA for reporting “Casualties, damage” as Israeli settlers launched nearly 3,000 attacks in the West Bank since 2025. The figures were presented in the context of a deteriorating humanitarian and security situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, as described by SANA.
Hebron shootings, arrests
In Hebron Governorate in the southern West Bank, الجزيرة نت said Palestinians were shot by the Israeli army and attacked by settlers in various areas on Sunday. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society told الجزيرة نت its crews treated 10 injuries during an assault by the Israeli army and settlers on the Habariya neighborhood in the رأس area of Hebron city, including two gunshot injuries to civilians. The same report said the army and settlers attacked the Zloum family in the Beit Einoun area east of Hebron, where 20 people were subjected to direct assault.
It also described arrests and humiliations after soldiers invaded homes, and noted that the Palestinian Prisoners Club confirmed the Israeli army arrested 10 Palestinians as part of a “policy of collective punishment against towns that confront settlers.” The report added that in Jerusalem, occupation forces forced Mamoun Shiyoukh to demolish his own home in the Silwan neighborhood south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, rendering his family of five homeless.
Escalation and Gaza-law link
A monthly report on the occupied West Bank for June 2026, as described by زاد الاردن, said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) found the number of settler attacks resulting in injuries or material damage surpassed 3,000 from 2025 up to the end of June 2026. زاد الاردن reported that Israeli forces arrested five Palestinians and detained three members of the Kasra municipality staff south of Nablus, while Palestinians were injured by asphyxia during an Israeli forces’ raid on the village of Al-Mughir northeast of Ramallah. The same report said Israeli forces continued raiding villages and towns in the Ramallah and al-Bireh, Bethlehem, and Jenin governorates, while settlers carried out assaults in various areas.
In parallel, اليوم السابع said the UN warned of a dangerous rise in violence in the West Bank and reiterated that conditions were witnessing a dangerous escalation in violence. Today’s UN framing, as quoted by اليوم السابع, also extended to Gaza, where it said the UN indicated the killing of 185 aid workers in 2025 and the killing of 8 aid workers since the beginning of this year, and stressed adherence to international humanitarian law.