Nov 30, 2025
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15% of 9,600 attacks reported by the UN over the past two decades this year
Fighting, burning and looting: Violence by Israeli settlers reaches unprecedented levels in the West Bank
15% of the 9,600 attacks recorded by the UN over two decades have occurred so far this year.
40 days ago, Ghazam Hamamding used to walk around his house with a goat and a goat that used to travel daily.It is as if he was once sitting in a plantation near Selvat Mason, came to him, begged him, God would save his land for the Jewish people.This year) with complaints and accidents.9,600 people have been recorded more than two years of humanitarian affairs organization, their military strong) sons open.
At that moment, as if it were a dance exercise, as the sun hides behind the hills south of Hebron, the settler walks next to the fence and grazes his livestock a few meters away.There is silence.Al-Hamadi stares at the slowly walking settler with a half smile while two international activists record the conversation.
The tension is just that, but the fear of Palestinian Shepherds is unfounded.He insisted that he "pulled himself together" to protect his children, even if it meant giving up part of the grass that ate the seventy goats that lived in it."The settlers came on horses, they destroyed the grass and the dogs, and whoever destroys an animal, destroys a child," he allowed."This also lives very close, the first day that settled, came to my house at dawn and said: 'I don't want any problems, you have to go here.'I answered: 'You came to tell me that you don't want problems and at the same time you told me to leave?
Last October was the month with the most attacks (264) by settlers against people or property since the UN began to register in 2006. The Israeli army alone, with a strict accounting system, admitted to 86 "nationalist crimes" in October, compared to 25 a year before, and 2025 already exceeds the total of 702.20.
One of the hottest pictures of the past days was caught again here in Mafer Yata.During the 20th century, the inhabitants of the 20-year-old manufacturer came at night - they say the inhabitants - to steal their sheep, cattle and land in a right of war that represents many conflicts in the area.A caning attack, in the middle of a dispute, was recorded.Also of Yousef mjam of blood and swollen face after the beating.
He was recently released from the hospital and is doing everything but hiding his injuries.The scarf typical of this area always ends over the mouth and nose.He tries his best to hide what is already visible: the bruises from the beatings.He looks pained, tired and a little humiliated as he recalls the moments when he was knocked unconscious by the blows that caused his three fractures.— Honestly.saying, they have come to steal our sheep.They were between 15 and 18 years old.They beat us with sticks.I thought: 'I'm going to die'.
His son Mohammed was also injured, but only slightly. He recalled angrily that he was with his sheep a few days ago when the settlers started chasing the tractors. "If it wasn't for God above, they would have taken me."
The frequency and intensity of the attacks reached such a level of fear that even European countries provided Gaza with the most weapons and diplomatic support in the attack on Gamas on October 20. On Wednesday, the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement "and strongly condemned the increase in Palestinian violence "and the imminent" conflagration. shoot along this line." These attacks must stop.of the State of Israel," they said.
Netanyahu sat down under the fields of attacks in the premises of the senses of the minister at the elections."To most Palestine, "It has been added here.
Nothing has changed since then. Although violent settlers are used to walking away with impunity, the current government coalition (the most right-wing in the history of the country) is engaged in fictitious reports of raids in settlements and demolition of buildings that the state itself considers illegal (because they are under international law). In fact, the latest phenomenon is that the most fundamentalist groups on the Telegram network boldly defend their actions.
At the same time, for example, a woman was shot in the leg, according to the Valestina Red Crescent in the Bethlehem area, in the village of Jalail Al-Leiz in the Bethlehem area.From November 18 and 24 to November 24, 36 attacks were documented with personal injuries, or both, and both were injured and trees and bushes (mainly olive trees) were repulsed.Two families were also forcibly transferred.Not a week goes by without a car or house fire.The last day was the turn of the 12th mosque.
The Netanyahu government emphasized in its coalition agreement that it would "progress and promote" the Jews to "settle throughout the land of Israel" (a biblical term that includes at least present-day Israel and Palestine) because "they have special and indisputable rights".700,000 people, including East Jerusalem, and in fact, most of them have no ideological motivation to stay in the occupied territory.They ended up there, with decades of state policies of massive development and massive subsidies, under Labor and Conservative governments.
UN agencies, human rights organizations and activist groups point to another reality: a State that allows the most radical mountain settlers (who drink from the religious nationalism that sets the political agenda) to do so because they have the same objective, by different means: to make life impossible for the Palestinians until they finally leave.
As the occupying power, Israel is bound by law to protect the Palestinian population.But in the long run, the accounts of affected people and witnesses, as well as graphic evidence, agree that in practice the same soldiers and police arrive late at the Palestinians when they suspect an attack against Israelis.Even calls that circulate for hours between WhatsApp groups of the most radical circles of Jewish supremacy.And when they do, they are very clear about who to choose between their countrymen and the Palestinians, more monstrous than ever in Israel collectively.
Maimer assures that calling the police or the army is "useless", efforts are "futile"."Ten times we defended my house and sheep and they took two donkeys from me. We were arrested once, not them," he complains.He refused and called the police.He said: "When they arrived, they were so afraid of him that they did not dare to put him out of reach. They left him there and left."
Between 2005 and 2024, 93.8% of investigations into this type of crime were closed without charges and only 3% of open cases resulted in convictions, according to Yesh Din (There is Justice, in Hebrew), an Israeli human rights organization that tracks the case.Among the alleged victims who contacted the NGO last year, two thirds have already given up filing a complaint.
The case of Awda Hazalin, also in Massafer Yatta, is an example of impunity like no other.He died in August during a filmed conflict between settlers and Palestinians.One of the videos shows well-known settler Yinon Levy opening fire with a weapon without a scope.Second, how the bullet reaches Hazalin.
Levi spent three days under house arrest.He was later released.The court ruled that he acted in self-defense, even though he was the only one armed.He was previously sanctioned by Joe Biden's administration for his involvement in the violence, which Donald Trump lifted as soon as he returned to the White House last January.
When Levy returned to his normal life, Israeli authorities kept the body of the slain Palestinian.Finally, after international pressure and after a hunger strike by dozens of Yatta women, she was allowed to be buried under the following conditions: only 15 attendants (minus the military), no singing, and in a village that was not her birth home.
incident at school
Hard, semi-desert, part and part, part. There is no other place, the best analysis is not given, we put it on the map.Its creators are just the kattuette to participate in the monument, and hundreds of Palestinians and activists and hundreds of activists before going to school Altafe Jatta and Al Tukani.
As if it were a joke of history, the school "there is no other country" was carved out for the people who are still rejecting the advice of the legal society.
The lawyer, Qamar Mashriqi, urged them not to lose hope against the discrimination of the Israeli system, and to go to the attacks of the attacks on their cell phone and always bring the land ownership documents.It's time for questions from the audience, especially farmers of a certain age.They bear their failure." When I went to the police station in [Kiriat Arba Settlement] to file a complaint. They treated me like a terrorist," one man complained.
Here, the local skin used to live in caves or stone houses.Today they make houses with cement or in the stomach, but they are afraid of the general fear: the sun goes down, when it falls, "His brother, his brother, who is his brother who kills Hazalin, pointing. If they call the police, he said, they come two or three hours later. That is, "when everything is over."
He talks about a large TV monitor in Khirbet Um el Jeir that simultaneously shows live images from seven security cameras at a glance.They set it up themselves to check if settlers have arrived and at the same time document the attack.It doesn't take much time. The village is directly cut by the road that leads to Carmel, a very protected settlement built in the 80s.
One and the other are meters apart.A fence barely separates the Palestinian community center, which has a modest playground, from the last prefab trailers erected by Jewish settlers last August."There are 300 of us and," sums up Jalil, "if you ask each of them what they want, they will tell you a good night's sleep."
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