A Decade of Impunity: The Tenfold Rise of Settler Violence

In 2023, documented attacks more than doubled to 2,410. The following year pushed even higher to 2,971, the worst year on record. This explosion in violence correlates directly with the period following October 7, 2023, during which settler militias mobilized openly and Israeli authorities largely suspended enforcement against settler violence in the West Bank.

October 2025 Demolition Update

New data reveals an escalating pattern of displacement and violence in the occupied West Bank, with Israeli forces conducting 445 demolition operations year-to-date, displacing 1,770 Palestinians and destroying 1,409 structures. The daily reality—averaging 6.87 people displaced and 4.85 structures demolished—reflects zionism's systematic policies of territorial control through bureaucratic violence and collective erasure.

The West Bank Burns

Twenty-nine settler attacks were documented this week, injuring 24 Palestinians and damaging property, including 30 trees, 12 vehicles, four houses, and various infrastructure. In Khallet Addaba', settlers attacked residents with knife-fitted sticks, injuring 14 Palestinians, including seven children. In Hebron, armed settlers forced a Palestinian family from their vehicle at gunpoint, assaulting them and preventing medical teams from reaching them for four hours.

Israel displaces 1,527 Palestinians across West Bank and East Jerusalem

Israeli forces have displaced 1,527 Palestinians and demolished 1,164 structures across the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the first eight months of 2025, maintaining a relentless pace of dispossession that targets homes, schools, and water infrastructure. From forced self-demolitions in Silwan where families must pay to destroy their own homes, to the destruction of agricultural facilities and animal shelters in Bedouin communities, the data reveals how bureaucratic violence and permit denials function as tools of ethnic cleansing. With 84 schools facing demolition orders and 73 communities lacking water networks, Israel's systematic erasure of Palestinian life continues to clear ground for exclusive Jewish settlement expansion.

Killings, demolitions continue across West Bank

The pace of demolitions in 2025 remains higher than historical averages, despite the relative downward trend in recent months. With 333 operations displacing 1,419 people in just 210 days, projections indicate 579 total incidents affecting 2,466 people by year's end. This would make 2025 the second-worst year since 2009, surpassed only by 4,293 displacements in 2024.

Knesset passes resolution to annex West Bank

Israel's parliament voted Wednesday on a symbolic motion calling for West Bank annexation, drawing sharp Palestinian condemnation. The nonbinding proposal, passing 71-13.

Despite aggressions across Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran — Israel maintains record levels of home demolitions across West Bank and East Jerusalem

Comparing yearly totals, 2024's catastrophic 4,293 displaced Palestinians dwarfs the 593 displaced in 2010—a seven-fold increase. The 2025 projection of 2,502 displaced continues this elevated baseline of violence, cementing displacement at historically unprecedented levels.

What the data says about ethnic cleansing

The scale of destruction in Gaza has reached catastrophic proportions, with April 2025 figures showing 174,486 structures affected by the ongoing aggression. Of these, 70,436 buildings have been completely destroyed, 18,588 severely damaged and rendered uninhabitable, and 51,962 moderately damaged.

Demolitions on pace to set new records… again

Although the year is only 48% complete, this pace projects to 584 military operations by the end of the year, more than last year’s record-breaking 554 operations.

With all eyes on Gaza, demolitions advance across West Bank

Over the past month, the demolition machine never paused. Between 28 April and 27 May, the army carried out 50 separate demolition operations—an average of one and two-thirds raids every day—erasing 169 Palestinian structures. Each sunrise brought the almost certain prospect of another five or six family homes, animal pens or water tanks being reduced to rubble.

All hands on deck for Mahmoud Khalil

The campaign to secure Mahmoud Khalil's release represents more than just a defense of the US's fabled constitutional freedoms; it challenges whether US organizers and society will permit the US government to make criminal the act of opposing its involvement in human rights violations and genocide.

Families rejoice as hundreds of Palestinian hostages are freed

But even in the last day with the liberation of these prisoners, Israel continues to violate the agreement: upon receiving the bodies of the four Israeli captives, Israeli authorities suspended the release of the 46 additional women and children to be returned to Gaza until they could “verify the identities” of these bodies.

Palestinians with Israeli citizenship hit hard in 2024

Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, mostly Bedouin communities, have experienced a nearly 300% increase in demolitions.

Smotrich & Co. to ramp-up home demolitions

In 2024, the number of demolitions reached 1,766 structures, almost double the number from 2023 and four times the total in 2020. At least 4,275 people were displaced in 2024 alone — only in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Knesset Member Smotrich looks to increase demolitions dramatically in 2025.

After the destruction of Gaza, Israel turns to West Bank

Even before the announcement of the so-called ceasefire agreement, Israeli forces and settlers intensified violence and restrictions in the occupied West Bank: Between January 7 and 13, Israeli forces killed six Palestinians, including three children, and injured 38 others. Airstrikes in the Jenin refugee camp on January 14th and 15th killed 12 Palestinians, including a child.

Demolitions quadruple across West Bank & East Jerusalem

Demolitions have almost doubled since 2023 and have quadrupled from 2020. From January 1, 2024, Israel has carried out 549 military operations across East Jerusalem and the West Bank alone, destroying 1,766 structures and displacing 4,275 people from their homes and lands.

Home Demolitions spike to 15 year high

Israel, like every other settler-colonial state, it is premised on the erasure of the indigenous population. Demolishing Palestinian homes to drive them of their lands is a critical tool in the advancement of zionism.

Knesset readies for annexation of West Bank

The Knesset passed legislation aimed at accelerating the annexation of the West Bank, as it proposes new power plants across Palestinian lands.

Despite US elections, Harris, Democrats green-light genocide

The Biden administration and the heir to the Democratic machine, Kamala Harris, have increased material support for genocide.

Israel advances displacement campaign across Jerusalem, West Bank

The Supreme Court has ordered the Shehadeh family to be evicted from their four-story home in Batan al-Hawa, Silwan, by June 1, 2024, in favor of settlers affiliated with the Ateret Cohanim organization.

Demolition Report: Israel advances settlements across West Bank

This update provides the weekly data report, as well as a brief discussion of the expansion of Israeli settlements, Smotrich's new "locality symbols" in the West Bank settlements, Israeli judicial decisions on the forced displacement of Palestinian communities, and regulatory changes related to settlement processes.