11,280 attacks carried out by the occupation and its settlers in the first half of 2025

Head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Mu'ayyad Shaaban, said that the total number of attacks carried out by the occupying state in the first half of 2025 amounted to 11,280 attacks carried out by various state agencies, including its settler militias, against citizens and their property.

Shaaban added during a press conference held by the Commission to announce its semi-annual report, "The Occupying State's Attacks on Palestinian Territories and Colonial Expansion Measures" for the first half of 2025, that this significant escalation in the form, number and nature of attacks coincides with the aggression launched by the occupying state against our people in the Gaza Strip and all places of Palestinian presence, noting that the attacks ranged from imposing facts on the ground (seizing lands, colonial expansion and forced displacement), to field executions, vandalizing and bulldozing lands, uprooting trees and seizing property, and closures and barriers that sever the ties of Palestinian geography.

He pointed out that the attacks were concentrated in the governorates of Ramallah with 1,975 attacks, followed by Hebron with 1,918, and Nablus with 1,784.

Shaaban said: “Over the past six months, the occupying state has been racing against time, in every sense of the word, to encroach on Palestinian geography, not only by establishing colonial outposts or fattening settlements, nor by issuing military orders, nor by systematically assaulting citizens in villages, towns and Bedouin communities, besieging and strangling them, but also by an unprecedented series of legislation and government decisions that target the essence of Palestinian geography and its status, putting us face to face, government, people, institutions, councils and frameworks, before the most dangerous phase the Palestinian cause is going through in terms of attempts at theft, annexation and imposition of sovereignty.”

He added that the attacks carried out by settlers during the period monitored by the report amounted to a total of 2,153 attacks, resulting in the martyrdom of 4 citizens at the hands of settlers. The settlers’ attacks ranged from attacking Palestinian villages and assaulting the innocent, setting fire to homes with their owners on their heads, shooting at citizens, establishing colonial outposts, seizing control of citizens’ lands, attacking streets and vehicles, and launching organized and dangerous attacks that have characterized these attacks in the recent period, such as what happened in the villages of Kafr Malik, Al-Mughayyir, Beita, Sinjil, and others.

These attacks were concentrated in the governorates of: Ramallah with 491 attacks, Hebron with 409, and Nablus with 396.

Shaaban explained that from the beginning of 2025 until the end of June, the occupation authorities studied (deposited and approved) a total of 165 master plans for expanding settlements or establishing new ones, including: 124 plans in the West Bank settlements, and 41 plans for the Jerusalem settlements, through which they studied a total of more than 8,685 housing units in the West Bank settlements, and 8,865 for the Jerusalem settlements.

He continued: "In the first half of 2025, settlers established 23 colonial outposts on citizens' lands, most of which were pastoral outposts, in the governorates of Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron, Qalqilya, Tubas, and Jerusalem, in continuation of the policy of imposing facts on the ground pursued by settlers under the full auspices of the occupation army."

He added that during the period covered by the report, the occupation authorities seized more than 800 dunams of Palestinian land under various pretexts, by issuing 36 seizure orders for military purposes and one expropriation order under the pretext of paving and expanding roads.

Shaaban said that in the first half of 2025, the Israeli occupation authorities issued 556 demolition notices against Palestinian facilities on the pretext of lacking permits. These included 322 inhabited homes, 18 uninhabited ones, 151 facilities classified as agricultural, and 97 facilities classified as sources of livelihood, among others.

He continued: Most of these notices were concentrated in the governorates of Hebron with 145 notices, Ramallah with 131, Qalqilya with 49, and Jericho with 46. The occupation authorities carried out a total of 380 demolition operations, resulting in the demolition of 588 facilities, and 843 people were affected by the demolitions, including 411 children and 378 women.

Shaaban pointed out that the occupying state and the settler militias had caused the uprooting and damage of a total of 12,067 trees, including 6,144 olive trees, including 5,359 trees in the Bethlehem Governorate, 2,282 trees in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, and 1,774 trees in the Nablus Governorate, in another record number recorded against the Palestinian tree, and in a clear and systematic targeting within the framework of emptying the Palestinian land and leaving it fallow.

Shaaban renewed his call for all Palestinians, including factions, popular unions, syndicates, and the masses, to unite under a national strategy to defend the land and national capabilities, one that looks only to Palestine, cares only about Palestine, and views the occupation's actions with a sense of national responsibility, free from self-interest and despicable malice.

He pointed out that the desired national strategy must, first, mobilize national and popular capabilities for its purpose, and second, be characterized by creativity and thinking outside the box of convention and previously used tools, in terms of reproducing new tools that are compatible with the current stage and adapt to its difficulties.

Shaaban emphasized that the current phase brings the old, new demand back to the forefront: the need for real and immediate international protection to safeguard the Palestinian people and their national capabilities against the thuggery of the occupation.