Successive Attacks Growing More Violent and More Widespread
Union for Justice Foundation: Settlers Carried Out 36 Attacks Against Palestinians in Three Days
29/07/2026 – Union for Justice Foundation
The Union for Justice Foundation stated that settler gangs carried out 36 attacks against Palestinians from dawn last Friday until Sunday evening, at an average of 12 attacks per day, in one of the most severe and sustained waves of violence witnessed by Palestinian villages and towns over recent decades.
The Foundation explained that these attacks resulted in the martyrdom of four civilians, the injury of more than 30 others, the burning of two mosques, the destruction of a number of homes, vehicles, water pipelines, and hundreds of fruit-bearing trees, the theft of dozens of livestock, and the establishment of four new settlement outposts.
The Foundation continued: “Settler gangs exploited the incident that occurred in the town of Tal on Friday to escalate their attacks against Palestinians, armed with a green light from Israel’s extremist government, whose members rushed to issue racist statements calling for retaliation and revenge for what had taken place in the town.”
The Foundation affirmed that the incident in Tal constituted an act of self-defence by Palestinians, in response to violent attacks carried out by dozens of settlers who stormed the town and provoked its residents under the watch and protection of Israeli occupation soldiers, who provided them with protection and initiated live fire against unarmed civilians.
The Foundation further stated: “What has taken place over the past three days is entirely consistent with the policy pursued by settler gangs, which is based (according to their own public statements) on carrying out initial attacks against Palestinians, provoking them, and driving them to respond, as a prelude to launching broader and more violent attacks.”
The Foundation added: “The ideological transformation within Israeli society is now being directly reflected on the ground. Settlers are no longer groups operating separately from state institutions; rather, they have become part of an official system implementing government policies.”
The Union for Justice Foundation explained that the agenda of the current Israeli government is based on consolidating control over Palestinian land, forcibly displacing Bedouin and rural communities, and expanding settlements through the imposition of new realities on the ground.
The Foundation stressed that what is taking place in the occupied West Bank “is neither a state of lawlessness nor isolated individual attacks, but rather a comprehensive policy implemented by a government dominated by a settler-colonial ideology.”
The Foundation warned of a further increase in settler attacks during the period leading up to the Israeli elections scheduled for October, as each Israeli political party seeks to present itself as the most hard-line in supporting settlement expansion and imposing control over Palestinian land.
Settlement Outposts: A Tool for Decisive Control
The extremist Israeli government views settlement outposts and settler attacks as a decisive instrument for creating an oppressive environment designed to drive Palestinians from their land, based on the principle that “what cannot be achieved by force can be achieved through greater force.” This approach is fuelled and encouraged by the extremist government ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, together with most of the political leaders currently governing the occupying power.
In the days following the incident in Tal, settlers hastened to establish four new settlement outposts, which typically serve as the nucleus for future settlements once the necessary government support is secured. One new outpost was established west of the town of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit Governorate, near the Separation and Expansion Wall. Three additional outposts were established in Tall Al-Asour in the Ramallah Governorate, on the lands of Deir Istiya, north of Salfit, and on the lands of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah.
According to human rights data, settlers established 42 settlement outposts on Palestinian-owned land during the first half of the current year, the majority of them pastoral outposts. Among them were four outposts established in Area B, reflecting the continued policy of imposing faits accomplis on the ground pursued by settlers with the backing of the Israeli occupation army.
Below, the Union for Justice Foundation publishes the full list of attacks carried out by settler gangs against Palestinians between dawn last Friday and Sunday evening, following the incident in the town of Tal, south of Nablus, which resulted in the martyrdom of four Palestinians and left four others seriously wounded by Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers.
24/07/2026: Settlers used bulldozers to demolish a water reservoir supplying the towns of Beit Furik and Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, and bulldozed olive groves surrounding it.
24/07/2026: Settlers, under the protection of Israeli occupation soldiers, destroyed 120 olive trees belonging to Palestinian residents in the Aghziweh area of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
24/07/2026: Settlers attacked several Palestinian areas between the villages of Jit and Tal, east of Qalqilya, burning and vandalising civilian property.
24/07/2026: Settlers attacked a Palestinian civilian with knives after his vehicle broke down on the Al-Mu’arrajat Road, northwest of Jericho, causing him injuries.
24/07/2026: Settlers attacked the homes of residents with stones in Khirbet Imriha, southwest of the town of Ya’bad, in Jenin Governorate, assaulting residents and their homes and injuring several people.
24/07/2026: Settlers launched an attack on the village of Far’ata, east of Qalqilya, setting fire to a commercial carpentry workshop, two homes, and agricultural land, while four civilians were wounded by live ammunition and a fifth sustained a head injury after being struck by a stone.
24/07/2026: Settlers closed the iron gate installed by the Israeli occupation army near the entrance to the village of Attara, north of Ramallah, obstructing residents’ movement and preventing them from reaching their homes.
24/07/2026: Settlers attacked the town of Surra, southwest of Nablus, injuring three civilians and setting fire to at least six homes, several vehicles, and dozens of dunums of land cultivated with vegetables and fruit trees.
24/07/2026: Settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles with stones near the southern entrance to the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem.
24/07/2026: Settlers attacked the village of Urif, south of Nablus, burned equipment at a stone quarry, and attempted to set fire to a house, leaving one young man with injuries and bruises.
24/07/2026: Settlers attacked an ambulance near Za’tara Military Checkpoint on the road between Nablus and Ramallah, slashing its tyres.
24/07/2026: Settlers opened fire on Palestinian civilian vehicles in the village of Abu Njeim, southeast of Bethlehem.
25/07/2026: Settlers attempted to steal dozens of sheep in the Ma’azi Jaba’ community, north of occupied Jerusalem, but local residents prevented the theft.
25/07/2026: Settlers demolished the interior walls of the home of 80-year-old Sabeeh Ghaith in the village of Birin, east of Hebron, completely destroying its furniture and household belongings.
25/07/2026: Settlers assaulted members of the family of Firas Khader, from the village of Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya, south of Nablus, using pepper spray, causing several cases of suffocation.
25/07/2026: Armed settlers stormed Khallet Al-Hummus, south of Yatta, and the Beit Einun area east of Hebron, assaulting residents and pelting homes and vehicles with stones.
25/07/2026: Settlers intercepted Suleiman Jamil Bani Odeh in Khirbet Al-Ras Al-Ahmar, southeast of Tubas, and seized his vehicle.
25/07/2026: Settlers from the settlement of Emmanuel closed the road linking Salfit and Qalqilya Governorates and attacked civilian vehicles with stones.
25/07/2026: Settlers infiltrated the outskirts of the town of Tal, south of Nablus, and occupied a house that was under construction.
26/07/2026: Settlers set fire to parts of a mosque in the village of Kur, south of Tulkarm Governorate, and spray-painted racist slogans on its walls.
26/07/2026: Settlers set fire to a mosque under construction in the town of Qusra, south of Nablus, burning timber and equipment at the site.
26/07/2026: Settlers set fire to parts of the home of Obadah Militat in the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus, and spray-painted racist slogans calling for revenge against Arabs.
26/07/2026: Dozens of settlers attacked workers at a stone-cutting factory (quarry) in the Ein Samia area, east of the town of Kafr Malik in Ramallah Governorate, injuring them and setting heavy machinery on fire.
26/07/2026: Settlers stormed the Wadi Al-Zaytoun area south of the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah, and erected tents there. The area covers approximately 4,000 dunums.
26/07/2026: Settlers prevented herders from grazing their livestock in the pastures surrounding their tents in Khirbet Samra in the Northern Jordan Valley and forced them to leave the area.
26/07/2026: Armed settlers accompanied by Israeli occupation soldiers prevented residents and farmers from reaching the Al-Jalabiya area west of the town of Idhna, Hebron Governorate.
26/07/2026: Settlers destroyed a water network in the village of Al-Minya, south of Bethlehem, and attacked residents attempting to repair it by throwing stun grenades at them.
26/07/2026: Settlers bulldozed Palestinian-owned land in the Al-Dhuhur area of the village of Deir Istiya, north of Salfit.
26/07/2026: Settlers attacked a number of Palestinians while they were on their agricultural land in the Abu Sud area between Husan and the town of Al-Khader, west of Bethlehem. Following the settlers’ attack, the Israeli army arrested eight of the Palestinians.
26/07/2026: Settlers attacked a number of farmers while they were working on their land in the village of Zita Jamma’in, southwest of Nablus.
26/07/2026: Settlers attacked a Palestinian civilian in the Al-Jalatiya area of the town of Idhna, west of Hebron, causing injuries and bruises. Israeli occupation forces prevented an ambulance from reaching him and providing medical treatment.
26/07/2026: Settlers from the settlement of Bat Ayin vandalised Palestinian-owned land in the village of Al-Jab’a, west of Bethlehem.
26/07/2026: Settlers accompanied by Israeli occupation soldiers stopped a vehicle and detained four women near the village of As-Sawiya, south of Nablus.
26/07/2026: Settlers dressed in Israeli military uniforms assaulted and physically abused a paramedic and a young man in the town of Huwwara, south of Nablus.
26/07/2026: Settlers attacked Palestinian civilian vehicles and forced them to turn back near Kedumim Roundabout, east of Qalqilya.
26/07/2026: Settlers set fire to the industrial area of the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
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