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In recent years — and especially since 7 October 2023 — there has been a sharp increase in both the number and severity of settler attacks against Palestinians. The incidents reported on this blog do not reflect all incidents of settler violence in the West Bank, but only those that B’Tselem was able to document and investigate.


Displaying 1-12 of 12 updates. An update can cover more than one incident.

2024

June
Masafer Bani Na’im
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Masafer Bani Na’im, South Hebron Hills: An armed settler sits down at the entrance to a home still under construction, slaps a 14-year-old boy
Masafer Bani Na’im
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Masafer Bani Na’im, South Hebron Hills: Israeli soldier known to residents as a settler harasses family members grazing their flock near their home and threatens them
May
Masafer Bani Na’im
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Masafer Bani Na’im, South Hebron Hills: An Israeli soldier, known as a settler, attacked Bani Na’im municipal employee working on water infrastructure. Civil Administration personnel ordered the municipality staff to stop working
Masafer Bani Na’im
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Masafer Bani Na’im, South Hebron Hills: Settlers and soldiers graze sheep in pastureland, try to take over a water cistern, beat and try to steal livestock and vandalize belongings on a family’s rooftop
Masafer Bani Na’im
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Masafer Bani Na’im, South Hebron Hills: Armed Israeli settler threatens Palestinian farmer and his teen son, orders them to remove Palestinian flag from their home
April
Masafer Bani Na’im
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Masafer Bani Na’im, South Hebron Hills: Israeli settlers let flock drink from private Palestinian water cistern and cut pipe carrying water to the house
Masafer Bani Na’im
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Masafer Bani Na’im, South Hebron Hills: Israeli settlers grazed sheep and harvest crops in private Palestinian wheat field. Soldiers detain the landowner
Masafer Bani Na’im
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Masafer Bani Na’im, South Hebron Hills: Israeli settler punctures car tires
Masafer Bani Na’im
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Masafer Bani Na’im, South Hebron Hills: Armed settler attacks Palestinian residents, fires a shot in the air. Soldiers detain two of the residents
March
Masafer Bani Na’im
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The car being loaded on the truck. Photo: Nasser Nawaj’ah, B’Tselem, 16 March 2024
The car being loaded on the truck. Photo: Nasser Nawaj’ah, B’Tselem, 16 March 2024
Masafer Bani Na’im, South Hebron Hills: Settlers harass association workers, vandalize car and steal property

2023

October
Masafer Bani Na’im
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At midnight, eight settlers arrived and sawed a piece out of a utility pole that supplies power to shepherding farms.
Masafer Bani Na’im
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Settlers put up wire fences around hundreds of dunams of land (1 dunam = 1,000 sq. meters) and blocked the road connecting Masafer Bani Na’im and the village of Bani Na’im with dirt mounds. The nine families living in Masafer Bani Na’im, numbering 60 people in total, are now cut off.
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