Defending the Palestinian Olive Harvest

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]