9/2/2026 – Union for Justice Foundation
The “Union for Justice Foundation” said that settler attacks carried out in the West Bank last month resulted in the injury of approximately (75) Palestinians and the displacement of dozens of families from their places of residence.
The Foundation indicated that settler attacks are on a continuous rise and take many forms, foremost among them the storming of Palestinian villages and towns, opening fire at citizens, and carrying out physical assaults using sticks, stones, and bladed weapons.
It added: “These attacks also included the burning of vehicles and homes, the destruction of agricultural and animal structures, the theft and killing of livestock, the poisoning of agricultural lands, the sabotage of water lines and graves, the storming and desecration of mosques, the destruction of schools and theft of their contents, and the seizure of land and homes by force.”
Storming of Islamic Shrines and Archaeological Sites
Alongside the daily incursions carried out by settlers into Al-Aqsa Mosque in the city of Jerusalem, accompanied by the performance of Talmudic rituals, settlers continue to storm numerous Islamic religious shrines and archaeological sites scattered across different parts of the West Bank, claiming that these areas are sacred according to the Jewish religion—claims described as inaccurate by researchers and specialists.
During the past month, settlers stormed the “Tarousa” area west of the town of Dura southwest of Hebron, the archaeological site of “Qasr al-Mawraq” dating back to the Roman era southwest of Hebron, Solomon’s Pools located between the town of Al-Khader and the village of Artas south of Bethlehem, and Joseph’s Tomb east of the city of Nablus, where they performed Talmudic rituals.
Uprooting and Destruction of Trees
During January, settlers uprooted and destroyed more than one thousand trees of various kinds, including olive, citrus, fig, and almond trees. On the fifth of last month, settlers uprooted approximately 150 olive trees in the Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron. On the fourteenth of the same month, settlers uprooted a number of fruit-bearing olive trees east of Tubas.
On January 26, settlers uprooted 100 olive saplings in the town of Asira al-Qibliya south of Nablus, and 500 olive, fig, almond, and other trees in Khirbet Wadi al-Rakhim in the town of Yatta south of Hebron Governorate. Two days later, they uprooted 200 olive trees in the plain area of the town of Turmus Ayya north of the city of Ramallah. Before the end of the month, settlers carried out another attack on the same town and burned a number of trees.
Establishment of New Settlement Outposts
The “Union for Justice Foundation” continued: “Settlers also established two new settlement outposts last month. On January 13, they set up a settlement outpost between the villages of Rummon and Deir Dibwan east of the city of Ramallah, and on January 21 of the same month they established a new settlement outpost in the Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar east of occupied Jerusalem.”
Approximately 770,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank in hundreds of settlements and colonial outposts, including 250,000 in East Jerusalem, and they carry out daily attacks against Palestinian citizens with the aim of forcibly displacing them.
Forced Transfer and Compulsory Displacement
According to monitoring and documentation by the “Union for Justice,” settler attacks, ongoing violence, and daily harassment carried out against Palestinians with the support of the Israeli army and government led during January to the displacement of (122) Palestinian families, particularly in Bedouin communities, where these Bedouin families were forced to leave their places of residence.
Previously, the United Nations announced that Israeli settler attacks and harassment in the occupied West Bank caused the displacement of approximately 700 Palestinians during the past month, the highest rate recorded since the outbreak of the war on Gaza more than two years ago.
Official, human rights, and UN reports also indicated that more than 33 Palestinian Bedouin communities have been displaced since October 7, 2023, distributed across 66 sites in the West Bank, leading to the displacement of 2,373 citizens from these communities, which enabled settlers to close off hundreds of thousands of dunums on which these communities were located and establish 114 new colonial outposts.
Regarding the details of the displacement operations, the “Union for Justice Foundation” notes that on 8/1/2026, 26 families belonging to the al-Umrein “al-Kaabneh” families were forced to leave the northern part of the Bedouin Shalal al-Auja community north of the city of Jericho, due to the escalation of repeated settler attacks and the accompanying assaults and direct threats.
On 11/1/2026, 33 families were forced to leave the Bedouin Shalal al-Auja community north of the city of Jericho. On 19/1/2026, 20 Palestinian families from the al-Zayed families were forced to dismantle their homes and structures and leave the Bedouin Shalal al-Auja community north of the city of Jericho. On 24/1/2026, settler attacks forced 15 Palestinian families to leave the Bedouin Shalal al-Auja community north of the city of Jericho.
On 26/1/2026, 4 families were forcibly displaced from Khirbet al-Hadidiya in the northern Jordan Valley due to the escalation of settler violence. On 31/1/2026, 4 families from the Shalal al-Auja community north of the city of Jericho joined those displaced earlier and were forced to leave their places of residence following the escalation of settler attacks, thus completing the displacement of all Palestinian families, numbering approximately 120 families.
Since its establishment, the Shalal al-Auja community has been subjected to a long series of serious violations, including repeated incursions, physical assaults, and direct threats against residents—particularly women and children—alongside the destruction of property, structures, and livestock pens, the theft and poisoning of sheep, restrictions on water sources and grazing lands, and the daily harassment of shepherds, turning residents’ lives into a permanent state of fear and insecurity.
These violations were carried out repeatedly and systematically, often in the absence of any protection for the civilian population, making continued life in the community impossible and forcing families to leave in order to protect their lives.
Bloody Attacks
During January, settlers carried out more than (30) bloody attacks that resulted in the injury of approximately (75) Palestinian citizens with various injuries, ranging from serious gunshot wounds to minor bruises resulting from physical assaults and pepper spray by settlers, according to monitoring by the “Union for Justice Foundation.” The most prominent of these attacks were as follows:
2/1/2026: Settlers attacked citizens in the “Khalayel al-Louz” area southeast of Bethlehem, resulting in two citizens sustaining bruises and various injuries.
2/1/2026: Settlers attacked the al-Kaabneh family and severely beat its members in the Tal Samadi area in Al-Jiftlik north of the city of Jericho.
2/1/2026: Settlers attacked a young man in Khirbet Ibziq northeast of Tubas, resulting in various injuries and bruises.
3/1/2026: Settlers opened fire at citizens during a raid on the village of Kisan east of Bethlehem, resulting in a child being shot in the pelvis.
5/1/2026: Settlers assaulted citizen Anwar Jamil Sawafteh while he was grazing livestock west of the village of Bardala in the northern Jordan Valley.
7/1/2026: Settlers launched an attack on the “Marj Si’” area between the villages of Al-Mughayyir and Abu Falah northeast of Ramallah, leading to clashes between youths and settlers, during which one settler ran over a young man from Al-Mughayyir village, while another settler stabbed an elderly man from Abu Falah village in the head and hand.
7/1/2026: Armed settlers stormed the al-Kharaba area east of the town of As-Samou’ south of Hebron and assaulted citizen Ali Mohammad al-Daghameen, causing him to sustain bruises, before occupation forces stormed the area and arrested him.
8/1/2026: Settlers riding horses stormed the Bedouin Shalal al-Auja community north of the city of Jericho and chased citizens, resulting in a woman being injured after she stumbled.
8/1/2026: Settlers launched an attack on a nursery in the town of Deir Sharaf west of Nablus, resulting in three citizens sustaining fractures and bruises, and the burning of five vehicles.
10/1/2026: Settlers attacked the young man Sharhabil al-Tawil from the town of Beit Furik east of Nablus while he was traveling on the road connecting the towns of Biddya and Sanniriya west of Salfit, seized his vehicle, and caused him injuries and bruises.
11/1/2026: Settlers threw stones at citizens near the Huwwara checkpoint south of Nablus, resulting in a young man being injured in the head.
13/1/2026: Settlers attacked two employees from the Water Department of Idhna Municipality west of Hebron while they were working in the “Dhakhrat Rajeh” area, resulting in both sustaining bruises.
15/1/2026: Settlers attacked shepherds in the Wadi al-Rakhim area in Masafer Yatta south of Hebron, resulting in the elderly man Mohammad Hussein Shannar sustaining bruises.
17/1/2026: Armed settlers from the settlement of “Karmiel” and the outposts of “Moshi” and “Shimon” attacked citizens in the Huwwara area of Masafer Yatta south of Hebron and assaulted citizen Issa Ali A’teyat, causing him to lose consciousness.
17/1/2026: Settlers from the settlement of “Rehelim” attacked a number of homes in the village of Yatma south of Nablus, assaulted citizens, and sprayed them with pepper gas, including: Bashar Sanobar, Mohammad Naeem Sanobar, and his son Naeem.
17/1/2026: Settlers launched a wide-scale attack on the Bedouin community of Khallat al-Sadra near the town of Mikhmas northeast of occupied Jerusalem, resulting in several injuries among citizens and foreign solidarity activists, in addition to the burning of two vehicles and eight homes.
21/1/2026: Settlers attacked the town of Urif south of Nablus, resulting in two young men being injured, and the burning of three bulldozers, seven vehicles, and a number of pieces of equipment at the northern quarries and crushers owned by citizen Issam al-Safadi.
22/1/2026: Settlers attacked two citizens in the Khallat al-Haramiyya area west of the town of Kafr ad-Dik west of Salfit and assaulted them before occupation forces stormed the area and arrested them.
22/1/2026: Settlers attacked citizens with stones in the southwestern area of the town of Qusra south of Nablus, resulting in a number of citizens sustaining various injuries and bruises.
24/1/2026: Settlers attacked farmers in the plain of the town of Beit Furik east of Nablus, resulting in three of them sustaining various injuries.
24/1/2026: Settlers attacked a house on the outskirts of the town of Birzeit north of Ramallah, resulting in citizen Najat Emil Jadallah being struck by a stone to the head and transferred to a hospital in the city of Ramallah, where her injury was described as serious. Her son Alaa Hani Jadallah was also injured, along with the two young men: Nafeth Bassam Eid and Eid Youssef Eid.
24/1/2026: Settlers attacked a number of citizens while they were on their lands in the Khallat al-Nitsh area east of the city of Hebron, Wadi Sa’ir in the town of Sa’ir northeast of Hebron, and Wadi al-Raqati – Marah Abu Asida west of the town of Beit Ula northwest of Hebron, resulting in a number of citizens sustaining bruises and injuries, including citizen Sadiq Idris, who was struck by a stone to the head and transferred to hospital, where his injury was described as moderate.
25/1/2026: Settlers attacked a woman and caused her to sustain bruises in the al-Mukhaymila area in Masafer Bani Naim east of Hebron (1).
25/1/2026: Settlers attacked the child Salah Ismail al-Hidra in Khirbet Rujum A’la in Masafer Yatta south of Hebron, resulting in injuries and bruises. Another settler attempted to run over the child Abdul Karim Mousa al-Adra, causing him injuries.
27/1/2026: Settlers attacked citizens in the village of Qusra south of Nablus, resulting in citizen Hamed Ismail Muslim sustaining bruises in various parts of his body, in addition to smashing his vehicle.
27/1/2026: Settlers launched an attack on Khirbet al-Fakhit in Masafer Yatta south of Hebron, resulting in a number of citizens being injured and the destruction of a vehicle.
27/1/2026: Settlers launched an attack on citizens in Khirbet al-Halawa in Masafer Yatta south of Hebron, resulting in a number of citizens sustaining bruises and injuries after being struck by settlers’ stones. Settlers, under the protection of occupation soldiers, also stole 150 heads of sheep belonging to the Abu Aram family.
30/1/2026: Settlers assaulted a citizen in the town of Beit Imrin northwest of Nablus while he was present in the summit area, causing damage to his vehicle.
30/1/2026: Settlers assaulted two young men who were on a recreational outing in the village of Yabrud northeast of Ramallah and smashed the vehicle they were traveling in.
30/1/2026: Settlers abducted the two young men Azzam Moein and Haitham Arafat from the town of Majdal Bani Fadel south of Nablus, took them bound to one of the tents in the al-Mreikiba area, and assaulted them.
30/1/2026: Settlers attacked citizens in the Mu’azi Jaba’ community north of occupied Jerusalem and set fire to one of the homes, resulting in two citizens being injured.
The “Union for Justice Foundation” affirms that this escalating violence by settlers cannot be recorded as individual or isolated incidents, but rather as the result of organized and calculated efforts, with official approval and blessing from the Israeli government formed by the far right, serving political objectives and implementing a plan to tighten control over the West Bank and annex it in a gradual and accelerated manner.
The Foundation stresses that the forced transfer and displacement of Palestinians within the West Bank constitutes a war crime and may amount to a crime against humanity under international law.
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