Mapping 1,800 Israeli settler attacks in the West Bank since October 2023

An mean of 4 incidents of settler unit person taken spot each time successful the occupied West Bank since October 7.

Earlier this week, successful a recurring signifier of violence, dozens of Israeli settlers, nether the extortion of Israeli soldiers, set occurrence to respective vehicles and properties, injuring astatine slightest 21 Palestinians.

As planetary attraction focused connected the brutal Israeli subject violative successful Gaza, settler attacks arsenic good arsenic deadly raids by Israeli forces intensified successful the occupied West Bank successful the past 15 months.

From October 7, 2023 to December 31, 2024, astatine slightest 1,860 incidents of settler unit successful the occupied West Bank were recorded – an mean of 4 a time according to information from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

With 411 incidents, the Nablus governorate saw the highest fig of settler attacks, followed by 410 incidents successful Ramallah and 362 successful Hebron.

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Who are Israeli settlers?

Settlers are Israeli citizens surviving successful Jewish-only communities, known arsenic Israeli settlements, built connected Palestinian-owned onshore that Israel occupied successful 1967.

Benjamin Netanyahu – Israel’s longest-serving premier curate – has bolstered colony expansions since helium archetypal came to powerfulness successful 1996, undermining the 1993 Oslo Accords, which called for the freezing of settlements and a mutually negotiated two-state solution.

Today, astir 10 percent of Israel’s Jewish population, totalling betwixt 600,000 and 750,000 people, unrecorded successful astir 250 settlements and outposts dispersed passim the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Many of these settlements are located adjacent Palestinian colonisation centres, often starring to accrued tensions and restrictions connected question for Palestinians.

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Israeli settlements are amerciable nether planetary instrumentality arsenic they interruption the Fourth Geneva Convention, which bans an occupying powerfulness from transferring its colonisation to the country it occupies. This is for a assortment of reasons, including protecting civilians from the theft of resources by the occupying powerfulness and to forestall changes successful the demographic constitution of the occupied territory.

Trump lifts sanctions connected convulsive settlers

One of Donald Trump’s archetypal actions arsenic president was to assistance sanctions targeting galore far-right settler organisations and individuals progressive successful convulsive actions against Palestinians, including arson, spot harm and assaults connected civilians.

These sanctions were imposed by his predecessor, erstwhile President Joe Biden, via an enforcement bid successful February 2024.

During his archetypal term, Trump championed galore of Israel’s cardinal policies, including recognising Jerusalem arsenic its capital, supporting colony expansion, cutting assistance to Palestinians and brokering the Abraham Accords to normalise relations betwixt Israel and respective Arab countries, without Palestinian involvement.

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) successful Palestine expressed alarm astatine the “wave of renewed violence” by Israeli settlers and equipped forces successful the occupied West Bank.

At slightest 870 Palestinians killed

Since Israel’s warfare connected Gaza began successful October 2023, astatine slightest 870 Palestinians, including 177 children, person been killed and much than 6,700 wounded successful attacks by the Israeli service and settlers crossed the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

At slightest 13,500 Palestinians including children person been arrested and much than 2,100 structures demolished successful the occupied West Bank leaving much than 6,700 radical displaced.

(Al Jazeera)