With an extremist "struggle record".. a settlement movement adopts dozens of terrorist attacks in the West Bank

The extremist settlement movement "Hilltop Youth" revealed its adoption of a wide series of systematic attacks against Palestinian citizens throughout the occupied West Bank. Sources reported that the movement published a report via its digital platforms documenting the execution of more than 60 terrorist attacks in just one month, targeting 33 Palestinian villages and towns, describing these crimes as part of their alleged "struggle record" against the Palestinian presence.

The intensity of the attacks was concentrated in the town of Mikhmas, near Ramallah, where settlers admitted to carrying out 5 direct attacks that led to the intimidation of local residents. According to field testimonies, the Bedouin communities surrounding the town were forced to flee and leave the area during this February, due to the escalating pace of harassment and continuous threats practiced by these extremist groups under security protection.

In a related context, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the death of a 19-year-old young man, succumbing to serious injuries he sustained after being shot by settlers in the town of Mikhmas last Wednesday. This incident confirms the brutality of the attacks carried out by settler gangs, which are no longer content with damaging property but have moved to directly targeting lives in cold blood.

According to statistics boasted by the settlement movement in its report, their attacks resulted in the burning of 12 inhabited homes and setting fire to 29 Palestinian vehicles. These attacks also caused injuries to about 40 citizens, in addition to smashing hundreds of windows of homes and cars and uprooting hundreds of ancient olive trees in an attempt to undermine the elements of Palestinian economic resilience.

"Hilltop Youth" groups are known as extremist Jewish youth formations that emerged in the late 1990s, adopting an exclusionary ideology aimed at expelling Palestinians and establishing illegal settlement outposts. Over time, these groups have transformed into an executive tool used by the occupation to implement forced displacement policies, sometimes away from official restrictions and at other times with full complicity from the army.

For its part, the "Peace Now" organization confirmed in a recent report that settlers are increasingly infiltrating Palestinian agricultural lands to prevent their owners from accessing them. The organization explained that these practices are carried out with clear support from the Israeli government and army, where violence and intimidation are used as primary tools to force Palestinians to leave their lands for the benefit of accelerated settlement expansion.

Data indicates that the current Israeli government, which is classified as one of the most extremist governments, has pushed forward record settlement plans during 2025. The construction of 54 new settlements has been approved, an unprecedented number that reflects the official trend towards effectively annexing the West Bank and undermining any chance of establishing a geographically contiguous Palestinian state.

In a dangerous development, the occupation authorities began the process of registering and settling land ownership in the West Bank, the first step of its kind since the 1967 occupation. This step has met with widespread international and UN condemnation, with human rights organizations considering it a "massive seizure" that paves the way for legitimizing the looting of Palestinian lands and accelerating the pace of final annexation under a false legal cover.

We carried out more than 60 attacks in one month on 33 Palestinian villages as part of what we call the record of struggle against the Arab enemy.