Settlement activity is increasing in the West Bank, with 1,275 incidents recorded in one week
Palestinians pull bodies from under the rubble in Khan Younis. Wafa
Ramallah, November 11, 2025
Israeli occupation forces killed 8 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and injured 18 others between November 4 and 10, 2025, continuing their violations of the ceasefire agreement. They continued shelling several areas in the Gaza Strip, including Khan Younis and eastern Gaza, as well as targeting the city of Rafah, the eastern part of the Bureij refugee camp, and central Gaza City. They also demolished buildings in various areas of the Gaza Strip, which was subjected to airstrikes, artillery fire, and shelling from naval vessels.
During the aforementioned period, rescue teams recovered 19 bodies of Palestinians from under the rubble in the Gaza Strip, while the deaths of 284 others were confirmed, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed from October 7, 2023, to November 10, 2025, to 70,257 dead and 179,799 wounded.
On the humanitarian front, the World Food Programme affirmed that what is entering the Gaza Strip does not meet the needs of the population, which is now facing the approaching winter cold.
During the aforementioned period, rescue teams recovered 13 bodies of Palestinians from under the rubble in the Gaza Strip, while the identities of 284 murdered were confirmed. This brings the total number of Palestinians killed since October 7, 2023, to November 10, 2025, to 70,257, with 179,799 injured.
On the humanitarian front, the World Food Programme affirmed that the aid entering the Gaza Strip does not meet the needs of the population, which is now facing the approaching winter cold.
In the West Bank, Israeli occupation forces killed five Palestinians, including four children. The OIC Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians recorded the arrest of 177 Palestinians by the occupation forces within seven days, including 6 children, in addition to injuring two other children.
Israeli occupation forces raided cities, towns, and villages in the West Bank 348 times in one week, during which they demolished eight homes, seized three other homes in Al-Quds for settlement purposes, occupied a residential building and two houses and converted them into military barracks, demolished a poultry farm and killed 7,000 chickens, as well as demolishing five barns and a room, filling in two water wells, and confiscating a car, two garbage trucks, and sums of money from individuals.
The occupation forces issued an order to confiscate land in the northern Jordan Valley, as well as 12.78 dunams of land in the town of Al-Khader and the Al-Awarij area in the village of Beit Iskaria, for military purposes.
The occupation forces also prevented the call to prayer from being broadcast from the Jaafar ibn Abi Talib mosque in a village near Hebron and monitored worshipers inside another mosque.
Regarding attacks on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the OIC Media Observatory recorded that it was stormed by 10,822 Israeli extremists, in addition to 8,704 who infiltrated in the guise of tourists, during October 2025. The city of Al-Quds witnessed 87 arrests throughout October, including 11 children and 3 women.
On another note, the number of settler attacks during the aforementioned period reached 92. Settlers burned areas of land in Nablus, damaged four cars in Salfit and Ramallah, destroyed an irrigation network in the northern Jordan Valley, seized a tractor and a water tank, ruined livestock feed and burned two barns in Nablus, stole furniture from a house in Masafer Yatta, burned a house in Jenin, and intercepted a bus carrying students from a Bedouin community near the village of Duma, preventing them from reaching their schools. A female settler also chased schoolchildren near the Ibrahimi Mosque, and settlers stormed the Ibrahimi School in Hebron. Furthermore, settlers grazed their livestock on Palestinian lands in villages in the Hebron and Bethlehem areas.
In this context, the number of attacks on the olive harvest season reached 33 in one week, during which settlers and Israeli occupation forces stole olive crops from 6 villages, attacked farmers 16 times while they were harvesting olives, cut down olive tree branches in 8 villages, and burned trees and bulldozed agricultural land in 3 other villages.
Meanwhile, a report issued by the Arab Studies Society revealed that the total number of settlement plans announced in October alone amounted to 13 plans, seven of which are located in occupied Al-Quds and six in the West Bank, covering an area of 28,585 dunams in occupied Jerusalem and 2,174.935 dunams in the West Bank.
In recent days, settlement activities reached 10 incidents, during which the occupation authorities announced a new settlement plan to build two buildings in the central vegetable market in Hebron, including the construction of 63 housing units. They also issued two tenders for the construction of 356 settlement units in the “Adam – Givat Binyamin” settlement, northeast of Al-Quds. Occupation forces issued an order to confiscate approximately 6 dunams of land from villages in the Nablus area to pave a new settlement road, while settlers leveled agricultural roads in villages in Salfit, erected a barbed-wire fence around 2,000 dunams of agricultural land in Khirbet Samra in Tubas, plowed land in the village of Qaryut in Nablus and the village of al-Mughayyir, and erected a tent on land belonging to the village of Kafr Qaddum in Qalqilya. The following day, they erected a number of tents on the same village’s land.
Thus, the number of Israeli violations between November 4 and 10, 2025, reached approximately 1,275 incidents, distributed across various Palestinian areas.