The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said that the Israeli occupation forces and settler militias carried out 4,073 violations against our people, their land and sanctities, during the first half of 2023.

In the mid-term report on the "Aggressions of the Occupying State and Colonizers on the Palestinian Territories" for the first half of 2023, the head of the Commission, Moayad Our People, explained that these attacks ranged from sabotage and leveling of lands, uprooting trees, seizing property, closing barriers, and physical injuries, and they concentrated in Nablus Governorate, with 952 attacks. Followed by the Jenin governorate with 553 attacks, then the Bethlehem governorate with 435 attacks.

And he indicated that the series of mass attacks carried out by settler militias in the past weeks on the villages of Hawara, Turmus Aya, Umm Safa, Urif, Qaryut, Deir Dibwan and other safe Palestinian villages sounded the alarm about the nature of the next stage of the conflict, a stage for which the official frameworks of the state prepared well, first through the arrival of The leaders of the settler gangs came to power in the occupying state, and secondly as a result of the religious schools of terror that produced this generation of hardened terrorist settlers according to a scenario in which the unarmed Palestinian civilians confront the terrorism of the armed settlers, who are protected by the force of the army, which criminalizes the Palestinian attempt to defend himself and his land.

He added that this model, which was created by the occupying and terrorist state, was intended to strike the final blow to all attempts by the Palestinians to preserve the remaining land and property and to destroy any possibility of preserving lives as well.

1148 settler attacks that killed 8 citizens:

The report indicated that the settlers’ attacks amounted to 1,148, causing the death of 8 citizens at the hands of settlers, and included the establishment of settlement outposts, control of citizens’ lands, assaults on streets and vehicles, storming villages, burning property, firing direct bullets, and launching organized and dangerous attacks that characterized it. These attacks occurred in the recent period, as happened in Hawara, Turmus Aya, Al-Laban, Urif, Masafer Yatta, and others. These attacks concentrated in Nablus governorate, with 470 attacks, and Ramallah governorate, with 265 attacks.

The establishment of 13 new colonial outposts, most of which are pastoral, and the legalization of 4 others:

The report indicated that the occupation authorities studied a total of 75 structural plans for the expansion of settlements or the establishment of new settlements in the West Bank, and studied through them the establishment of a total of 13 thousand settlement units for study (8131 units for deposit, and 5191 units for approval).

The report said that settlers established, during the first half of 2023, 13 colonial outposts on citizens' lands, most of them pastoral outposts, in the governorates of Ramallah, Nablus, Salfit, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and Hebron, and that the occupation authorities legalized 4 new outposts, in the vicinity of the "Eli" settlement between the two governorates of Ram. God and Nablus.

Confiscation of more than 44 thousand dunums:

He added that the occupation authorities seized more than 44,000 dunums under various names (amending the boundaries of natural reserves, expropriation orders, seizure orders and declaring state lands), of which 43,000 dunums were amending the borders of a nature reserve from the lands of the governorates of Jerusalem and Jericho, and 433 dunums through three Expropriation orders announced by the occupying power to serve the settlers, and 449 dunums by issuing 9 seizure orders for military purposes, and one declaration confiscating 14 and a half dunums as state land.

The demolition of 303 homes and facilities that caused the displacement of 543 individuals, including 272 children:

The report indicated that the occupation authorities issued 822 notices to demolish Palestinian facilities under the pretext of non-licensing, in a significant and record increase in the number of notices sent compared to the same period of the previous two years. Most of these notices were concentrated in the governorates of Hebron (221 notifications) and Bethlehem (170 notifications).

He confirmed that the occupation authorities carried out a total of 256 demolitions, which resulted in the demolition of 303 facilities in the West Bank, including the city of Jerusalem, including a basic school in Jubb al-Dhib in the Bethlehem governorate twice in a row, and 543 people, including 272 children, were affected as a result.

822 notifications of demolition of facilities and uprooting and breaking of 8,340 trees:

The report indicated that the occupation forces and settlers cut down and damaged a total of 8,340 trees since the beginning of this year, concentrated in the Hebron governorate by cutting 2005 trees, and the governorates of Ramallah 1871 trees, and 1797 trees in Nablus.