AJ🔹 More Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers in occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem between January 2023 and December 2025 than in the previous 17 years combined, according to an Oxfam analysis of UN data published on June 11.
🔹 According to the report, 1,244 Palestinians, including 268 children, were killed in the past three years, compared to 1,036 Palestinians, including 225 children, from 2006 to the end of 2022, noting that over 20 years combined, 22% – more than one in five of those killed – were children.
🔹 For the same periods, in the first 17 years until the end of 2022, 86 Israeli settlers, including 12 children, were killed by Palestinians, while in the last three years to the end of 2025, 43 Israeli settlers have been killed, including ten children.
🔹 In the first three months of 2026 alone, more than 540 settler attacks were recorded, resulting in 33 Palestinian people killed and more than 2,200 displaced, while more than 60 water and sanitation structures have been vandalised, including pipelines, irrigation systems and water tanks, which have undermined access to fresh water in 32 Palestinian communities, according to an OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report.
🔹 Meanwhile, fast-tracked annexation, mass forced displacement, movement restrictions, killings by both army and settler militias (armed by Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir), as well as checkpoints and closures, are fragmenting the territory and limiting access to essential services and livelihoods.
🔹 During 2025 alone, the World Health Organisation reported more than 230 attacks on healthcare facilities, including obstructed access, the vandalization of ambulances and harassment of medical staff.
🔹 925 obstacles currently either permanently or temporarily restrict movements of over 3 million Palestinians across the West Bank, 43% more than the annual average of 647 movement obstacles in the preceding 20 years, Oxfam reported.
🔹 Despite what Oxfam describe as Israel’s ongoing process of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, the charity and its partners continued to support vulnerable communities across the West Bank with humanitarian assistance, including clean water, food, the rehabilitation of agricultural water cisterns and livestock shelters.
🔹 Oxfam called for an end to Israel’s ‘unlawful occupation and further annexation of the West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and to the foreign complicity in the illegal occupation and settlement scheme, asking for a just and sustainable peace which must be anchored in international law and the right to self-determination.
🔹 Amnesty International cited extensive field research and digital evidence, concluding that Israel are extending a deliberate state policy of ethnic cleansing in Area C of the occupied West Bank, with the report mainly focussing on displaced Palestinians from the Bedouin community.
🔹 According to Amnesty International, state-backed settler violence and administrative restrictions forcibly displaced 5,910 Palestinians from 117 Bedouin and herding communities, which AI concluded constituted war crimes against humanity due to forcible displacement.
🔹 Senior Israeli officials, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, have publicly facilitated the policy, Amnesty International claimed, stating that by January 2026, Israel issued over 240,000 firearm licences to civilians.
🔹 Armed settlers, often supported by Israeli military forces, have been documented by Amnesty International raiding villages and sabotaging critical infrastructure.
🔹 Israel military claims troops act ‘to disperse those involved and restore order,’ but research found the military had often participated in the violence, making their actions indefensible, as Amnesty International report 45 communities have been fully depopulated in recent years.
