Since its founding, Israel has used military and bureaucratic tools to steal Palestinian land while expelling the Palestinian population from it. 93% of the Palestinian territory that Israel took in 1948 to establish its state are reserved exclusively for Jewish citizens. In the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Israel has extended the same strategy of […]
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Update From The Ground – What’s Been Happening in Palestine?
Walls, Iron Gates, and Military Attacks to Create Palestinian Ghettos] Ahead of the expiration of the deadline given by the UN General Assembly to end the illegal occupation, Israel is tightening its grip on the Palestinians of the occupied West Bank. Israel has transformed the West Bank into isolated enclaves resembling prisons, divided by walls, […]
Forced Displacement in the occupied West Bank
3 communities in Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Jericho under attack BETHLEHEM On August 2, settler militias set up a new outpost near the village of Kisan in the southern West Bank province of Bethlehem. This marks the establishment of the eighth outpost by Israeli settlers in the Deir Alla area, adjacent to the Palestinian community known […]
Settlers Are Burning Our Villages!
Simultaneous and coordinated attacks by settler militias and the IOF on July 31 Al-Lubban al-Sharqiya (Nablus) On July 31 midnight, the village of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya has been subjected to a fierce campaign of raids and arrests by Israeli occupation forces, amid a heavy deployment of military checkpoints in the center of the town. More than […]
Annexation is Already Underway in the Occupied West Bank
Settler attacks in Taybeh and Umm al-Kheir on July 28 Taybeh On July 28, Israeli settler militias, supported by the Israeli army, attacked Palestinian homes of the town of Taybeh, east of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. Settlers set fire to vehicles owned by Palestinians and wrote racist slogans and threats on the walls […]
DISMANTLE THE APARTHEID WALL!
July 9, 2025, marks the 21st anniversary of the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), declaring Israel’s Apartheid Wall and its “associated regime”, including the settlement project, in the occupied Palestinian territories, illegal. July 9 also marks 20 years of the Palestinian-led Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights. The ICJ […]
Forced Displacement in Mughayyir al-Deir: Settler Violence, Historical Dispossession, and Annexation in the West Bank
2025 Attack and Displacement On May 24, Israeli settler militias and army attacked the Palestinian Bedouin community of Mughayyir al-Deir, injuring six including 14-year-old Omar Mlihat. This was the final move in the gradual ethnic cleansing of the village. On May 18, the settlers pitched a large tent in the middle of the Bedouin community […]
Israel’s New Land Registry Policy: Acceleration of Annexation of Area C of the Occupied West Bank
77 years into the continuous Nakba, the forced mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homes, the Land Registration (“land settlement”) law aimed at establishing permanent, irreversible, and sovereign ownership of land for Israel is accelerating forced displacement in the illegally occupied West Bank. It will facilitate settlers’ control over Palestinian lands and erase Palestinian presence […]
Ariel West Settlement: Israel’s colonial Wild West expands its grip on Palestinian land
On March 9, the council of the illegal settlement Ariel announced the “Ariel West” (or “Amirim”) project, a massive expansion plan involving 11,000 new housing units on 2,000 dunams of Palestinian land in the Salfit governorate of the occupied West Bank. The plan also includes public parks, educational institutions, and green spaces. This is part […]
Increase in Israeli Settler Militia Attacks Against Palestinian Farmers During the Olive Harvest Season
A total of 706 cases of assault by armed settler militias, protected by the Israeli apartheid forces, have been documented against Palestinian farmers. The incidents included the following: Across the West Bank, the attacks during the olive season constitute further steps within Israel’s policy of annexation, colonial settlement, and displacement of the Palestinian population. The […]