The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission documented 2,161 attacks carried out by the occupation forces and terrorist settlers during the month of January 2025.

The head of the commission, Minister Mu'ayyad Shaaban, said in the monthly report on "occupation violations and colonial expansion measures" that the occupation forces carried out 1,786 attacks, while the settlers carried out 375 attacks, most of which were concentrated in the governorates of Hebron with 358 attacks, Ramallah with 342, and Nablus with 328.

He pointed out that the attacks ranged from armed attacks on Palestinian towns and villages to imposing facts on the ground, field executions, vandalism, bulldozing of land, uprooting of trees, seizure of property, closures and military checkpoints that sever the ties of Palestinian geography.

A wave of terrorism targeting citizens’ properties and homes:

He pointed out that the settlers' attacks were concentrated in Nablus Governorate, with 108 attacks, Ramallah Governorate with 105 attacks, Nablus with 76 attacks, Hebron with 55, and Qalqilya with 31 attacks.

He added that the settlers carried out 318 acts of vandalism and theft of citizens' property, which affected large areas of land, and resulted in the uprooting of 969 trees, including 960 olive trees, 350 of which were in the Hebron Governorate, 328 in Bethlehem, 160 in Salfit, 100 in Nablus and 31 in Ramallah.

126 facilities demolished and 131 others notified of demolition

The Commission's report indicated that the occupation authorities carried out 76 demolition operations last month, affecting 126 facilities, including 74 inhabited homes, 4 uninhabited ones, and 29 agricultural and other facilities. They were concentrated in the Jenin governorates, with the demolition of 47 facilities, then the Jerusalem governorate with 14 facilities, Qalqilya with 11, and Bethlehem and Nablus with 10 facilities each.

The occupation authorities also notified 131 facilities to demolish, concentrated in the Hebron Governorate with 66 notifications, then the Bethlehem Governorate with 45 notifications, and Ramallah with 10 notifications.

Attempt to establish 10 new colonial outposts

He pointed out that the settlers have tried to establish 10 new colonial outposts since the beginning of last January, which were predominantly agricultural and pastoral in nature, and were distributed as follows: 4 new colonial outposts on the lands of Tubas Governorate, 3 outposts in Nablus Governorate, and 3 others in Qalqilya, Ramallah, and Bethlehem.

Shaaban stressed that the decision to establish the colonial outposts comes under directives from within the occupation's "cabinet", which sponsors the colonial settlement project and provides facilities to terrorist colonists in order to implement plans to control the land and forcibly displace them.

Seizing 262 dunums:

The occupation authorities seized a total of 262 dunums of citizens’ lands through two expropriation orders for the purpose of expanding a colonial road north of Jerusalem. The first order targeted a total of 258 dunums of citizens’ lands in the villages of Jaba’, Kafr Aqab, Al-Ram, Mikhmas and Qalandia, north of the Jerusalem Governorate, through an expropriation order aimed at expanding Road No. 45, which connects Road 60 near the Binyamin Industrial Zone and the two colonial Kokhav Yaakov roads, all the way to the Qalandia military checkpoint. The second order stipulated the right to dispose of 4.5 dunums of the area’s lands for the purpose of expanding a colonial road.

Adjusting the boundaries of a colony and studying 31 structural plans for the colonies

The report indicated that the occupation authorities studied last January a total of 31 master plans (deposit and approval) for the purpose of expanding the settlements of the West Bank and Jerusalem. The plans aimed to build a total of 943 colonial units on an area estimated at 9,881 dunams of citizens’ land, and were mainly characterised by changing the use of land within the settlements from agricultural areas to “colonial” residential areas, which reveals the occupation’s intention to carry out large and intensive expansion operations in the coming period, in addition to allocating 3 plans, including them, for the purpose of expanding two industrial areas within the settlements, while plans within the borders of the city of Jerusalem aimed to build 3,512 colonial units on an area estimated at 441 dunams of citizens’ land.

He pointed out that the occupation authorities announced their intention to settle the status (legalize) of the "Mitzpe Kramim" colonial outpost by annexing it to the area of influence of the "Kochav Hashahar" colony, within the so-called "Mate Binyamin" colonial regional council, which is built on citizens' lands northeast of the Ramallah governorate, specifically the lands of the village of Deir Jarir, which allows for the start of planning to organize the colonial outpost.

The "Mitzpe Kramim" colonial outpost, which was established in 1999 on private Palestinian land to the east of the "Kochav Hashahar" settlement, is located. The citizens fought a legal battle with the occupation in order to remove the outpost, and in 2022 the occupation court decided to "settle" the status of the outpost on the pretext that it was established in good faith by the colonists!

912 military barriers and "gates" to reshape the geography and make it repellent to citizens

Shaaban stressed that the escalating crimes of the terrorist colonists have gone beyond the level of attacks to the principle of terrorism sponsored by the official Israeli establishment, and cannot be viewed as isolated from the colonial context, but rather has become organized and protected by the occupying state with a racist legislative environment that provides it with support, care and immunity.

He added that the occupying state has become adept at inventing reasons to oppress the Palestinians and turn their lives into a living hell and constant torment, which would not have happened except because the world has completely stopped being a guardian of human rights and a deterrent to the criminal behaviors pursued by the last occupying entity on earth and in history.

Shaaban said that the methodology of comprehensive closure of Palestinian geography, through checkpoints, military gates, and the separation wall and racist expansion, was not only aimed at controlling the movement of Palestinians on the streets, but also, through more than 912 checkpoints, military gates, and a separation wall that is more than 700 km long, it wanted to reshape geography according to the sick whims of the occupier, and transform the West Bank, including Jerusalem, into narrow enclaves and cantons, repelling living and housing, and subject to the most severe system of control and control over the lives of those under occupation, completely eliminating the possibility of communication not only between two neighboring governorates, but also extending to eliminating communication between a village and the village next to it.