The West Bank Faced 18 Settler Activities and 99 Attacks in 7 Days
Palestinians recover bodies from under rubble in the Gaza Strip. (Palestinian News Agency WAFA)
Ramallah, December 9, 2025
The Israeli occupation forces have increased their aggression in the Gaza Strip despite the ceasefire agreement. In addition to declaring the yellow line as their new border with Gaza as part of consolidating their occupation of parts of it, they killed and injured dozens of Palestinians during the period between December 2 and 8, 2025, as part of intensifying their bombing of the eastern areas, where they killed journalist Mahmoud Wadi in Khan Younis, and targeted displaced people, which prompted many to flee towards the western areas.
According to the OIC Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians, the toll between December 2 and 8, 2025, reached 260 murdered and 108 injured across the occupied Palestinian territories. In the Gaza Strip, 21 murdered and 74 injured were recorded, in addition to the recovery of 9 bodies and the confirmation of the deaths of 223 others. On the humanitarian front, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip warned that 52% of essential medicines were unavailable in the Strip’s hospitals and clinics.
In the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, Al-Quds, the number of incursions by the occupation forces reached 420, during which they murdered 7 Palestinians, including two children, and injured 32 adults and 4 children. They also assaulted two children in Nablus, arrested 184 adults and 4 children, demolished 7 houses, and caused damage to a house adjacent to one of the demolished houses in Tubas. They also demolished several shops and a wood factory and notified of their intention to demolish 3 other factories in Hebron. They also demolished a cave, a guest house, and two health units. They occupied 21 houses, evacuated their residents, and turned them into military barracks. They imposed a curfew in the town of Qabatiya in Jenin and the village of Kafr Saba in Qalqilya for four consecutive days. They confiscated an agricultural tractor, sums of money exceeding 222,972 US dollars from Palestinian individuals, as well as promissory notes, checks, jewelry, and gold.
A report issued by the Palestinian Ministry of Endowments confirmed that the Al-Aqsa Mosque was subjected to 25 incursions during the month of November 2025, while the Israeli occupation forces notified a number of imams of mosques in the Qalqilya Governorate to lower the volume of the call to prayer in the mosques, and confiscated the sound broadcasting devices belonging to the unified call to prayer in the village of Haris in Salfit.
On the other hand, the United Nations condemned the incursion of Israeli occupation forces on the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Al-Quds.
The OIC Observatory revealed that the number of arrests in the West Bank between 2020 and November 2025 reached 45,852, while the number of arrests for 2025 alone reached 9,091. The number of settler attacks on Palestinian villages reached 99, during which they grazed their livestock in the vicinity of Hebron, the town of Beit Ummar, the vicinity of Tubas, the vicinity of Salfit, the villages of Al-Maniya and Kisan in Bethlehem, the vicinity of Al-Quds, and the vicinity of Ramallah. They cut down olive and grape trees in the vicinity of Hebron, the village of Yarza in Tubas and the vicinity of Nablus. They burned an agricultural tractor, caused damage to vehicles, seized two vehicles, set fire to agricultural lands surrounding a settlement outpost in the town of Atara in Ramallah, and in the village of Halhul in Hebron. Settlers accompanied by 3 bulldozers entered the plain of the town of Turmus Ayya, uprooted a number of olive trees, and damaged the citrus crop in the vicinity of Salfit. They vandalized crops and stole a farm gate in the vicinity of Nablus, and damaged water lines drawing water from one of the springs in Tubas.
On the same note, settler activities reached 18 incidents. Meanwhile, the occupation authorities expanded and built housing units in the “Ramat Migron” settlement outpost on the lands of Al-Quds villages. Settlers established infrastructure for a settlement outpost on lands east of the village of Mikhmas, erected a mobile home in the Al-Khala’il area of Ramallah, set up a tent on lands in the Jabal Qamas area of Nablus, rebuilt tents in the same location, erected a tent on land in Khallat Al-Natsh near the “Kiryat Arba” settlement in the Old City of Hebron, placed mobile homes in the vicinity of Nablus, paved a dirt road to springs in the northern Jordan Valley, and bulldozed land in the village of Awarta to pave a settlement road. Settlers bulldozed land in the town of Qarawa in Salfit, two lands in the village of Qaryut in Nablus, and lands belonging to Islamic endowments in the town of Al-Auja in Jericho. They plowed about 70 dunams out of 200 dunams in the northern Jordan Valley, and they plowed lands in Bethlehem and planted them with grains, and another land estimated at 20 dunams in the northern Jordan Valley. For seven days, the occupation forces continued to bulldoze lands north of the town of Bruqin and fenced them with barbed wire. The occupation forces uprooted trees on more than 81 dunams and fenced them near the settlement of “Karmei Tzur” established on the lands of the towns of Beit Ummar and Halhul in Hebron.