An AI-generated image depicting settler attacks amidst the occupation forces’ repression of journalists in the occupied Palestinian territories.
After monitoring the behavior of Israeli settlers in 2025 and 2026 the OIC Observatory reveals an intensification and increased scope of their attacks. In recent weeks, settlers have targeted several schools in West Bank villages, either by preventing students from attending or by storming the schools and assaulting students and staff.
On Thurseday, May 7, 2026, an armed settler drove his vehicle into the courtyard of the Silat al-Dahr Boys’ Elementary School, chasing students and teachers. Armed settlers, also in a vehicle, visited the girls’ school in the town of Beit Anan. Settlers were also present near the girls’ school in the village of Mikhmas, and others established an outpost northwest of the town of Bruqin, just 100 meters from the Bruqin Girls’ and Boys’ Elementary Schools.