The Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission has reported that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and settlers carried out 1,613 attacks against Palestinians and their property during the month of August, 2025, as part of the occupation’s ongoing terror onslaught and violence against the Palestinian people, their land, and property.

Israeli settlers running amok in the Occupied West Bank

Minister Mu’ayyad Shaaban, head of the Commission, stated in the monthly report titled Israeli Occupation Violations and Colonial Expansion Measures, that the IOF was responsible for 1,182 attacks, while illegal Israeli colonial settlers carried out 431 attacks, making August one of the months of highest settler violence.

The assaults were concentrated in the governorates of Ramallah and Al-Bireh, which had 321 attacks, Nablus which had 274 attacks, and Hebron with 220.

The report also documented the killing of two Palestinian civilians, Mu’in Subhi Diriya from Aqraba and Thamin Khalil Dawabsheh from Duma, in direct settler gunfire, and recorded the uprooting of 11,700 trees, the demolition of 125 structures, and the seizure of more than 10 acres of Palestinian land.

Shaaban also highlights in the report, that settlers attempted to establish 18 new colonial outposts across the occupied West Bank – which are the first steps taken by settlers to steal Palestinian land – and are often little more than a caravan or two, used as a base for the settlers, who harass, intimidate and attack Palestinians on their own land – while Israeli occupation authorities advanced 31 settlement master plans, approving projects for more than 6,800 new settlement units on an area of Palestinian land equivalent to around 2970 acres.

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By Charlie Jaay

This post was originally published on Canary.