Israeli Army, Settlers Wage 2,350 Attacks in Occupied West Bank
Israeli forces and settlers unleashed more than 2,300 assaults across the occupied West Bank last month in what Palestinian officials describe as a systematic campaign of terror aimed at erasing Palestinian presence from their land.
According to the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission (CRRC), the Israeli regime’s forces were responsible for 1,584 attacks, including violent raids, home demolitions, and the destruction of olive trees—the lifeline of countless Palestinian families. Most assaults were concentrated in Ramallah (542), Nablus (412), and Hebron (401).
Settlers, operating under the protection of the occupation army, carried out an additional 766 attacks—many against Palestinian farmers during olive harvest season. The CRRC said the settlers’ actions were part of an “organized strategy designed to uproot indigenous Palestinians and cement a racist colonial regime.”
The commission’s monthly report, Occupation Violations and Colonial Expansion Measures, said settler assaults reached an unprecedented level, targeting the same regions—Ramallah, Nablus, and Hebron (Al-Khalil)—with what it called “state-sanctioned terror orchestrated by the occupation government.”
Meanwhile, the regime’s Higher Planning Council is advancing plans to construct 1,985 new illegal settlement units, part of a record 28,195 pushed forward since early 2025, according to the Israeli rights group Peace Now.
Far-right Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, a key architect of Israel’s expansionist policy, sparked international outrage in August when he boasted that the E1 settlement scheme would “bury the idea of a Palestinian state.” The E1 project would connect occupied East Jerusalem (Al-Quds) with the sprawling illegal settlement of Maale Adumim—effectively severing the West Bank in two.
Analysts say this expansion drive amounts to de facto annexation, a move that would obliterate any remaining prospect for a two-state solution long endorsed by the United Nations.
While US officials publicly oppose formal annexation, Washington continues to shield Israel from accountability. US President Donald Trump’s administration has stated it will not allow annexation, yet it has done nothing to halt the regime’s violence in the West Bank even as it promotes its Gaza ceasefire narrative.
US Vice President JD Vance, during a recent visit to occupied Palestine, said Trump would oppose annexation, calling it a “stupid political stunt.” But Palestinian officials say such remarks ring hollow as the Israeli regime accelerates its land grab and collective punishment of an occupied people under the cover of international silence.