WEST BANK, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), Escalating Israeli settler attacks have forcibly displaced about 100 Palestinian Bedouin families across the occupied West Bank over the past two weeks, United Nations agencies warned, as violence intensified across multiple areas within a single 24-hour period.
UN bodies said the displacement followed repeated settler assaults, intimidation, property damage, and the obstruction of access to livelihoods, grazing land, and water.
Affected families said they were forced to abandon their communities under sustained pressure, amid the absence of protection and the direct presence of Israeli occupation forces (IOF) that continued to secure settler activity during attacks.
The warning came as settlers sharply escalated incidents across the West Bank in the past day. Under IOF protection, settlers entered Solomon’s Pools south of Bethlehem and carried out religious rituals.
In the north, settlers conducted provocative patrols near homes on the outskirts of Raba village, southeast of Jenin, while armed settlers stormed the Bab al-Marj area east of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit, in moves residents described as land intimidation.
In al-Khalil, settlers hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles near the Koushok junction, damaging cars and endangering lives.
Similar stone-throwing targeted vehicles in the Marj Si’a plain between al-Mughayyir and Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah. South of Nablus, settlers sabotaged the electricity network serving the Shakara Bedouin community near Duma, cutting power entirely. Elsewhere, settlers fired live ammunition toward youths during clashes in Qusra, south of Nablus City.
UN agencies said the attacks reflect a broader, systematic pattern aimed at emptying Palestinian areas, particularly Bedouin communities, and imposing new settlement realities on the ground.
Palestinian activists renewed calls for urgent action to protect civilians and halt forced displacement.
