West Bank & Jerusalem
Settlers carry out 156 attacks, seize 42,000 dunams in West Bank week
Image credit: Shehab Wire (EN)
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Shehab Wire reported that a settlement monitoring observatory documented 156 settler attacks and seizures of 42,000 dunams of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank over a single week. The findings came from Nasir Abu Thabet, director of the settlement monitoring observatory in the West Bank.
Abu Thabet said the escalation took multiple forms and occurred under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. The wave of incidents represents a significant expansion in the scale and variety of settler violence across the territory, with attacks ranging from land confiscation to direct assaults on Palestinian communities.
The seizure of more than 42,000 dunams in a seven-day period marks a dramatic surge in territorial appropriation by settlers during the period covered by the monitoring group's latest count.
