Between 25th November and 1st December, four Palestinians, including one child, were killed by Israeli forces, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank so far this year to 227.
In addition, settler violence has also persisted at high levels. During the current year, OCHA has documented 1,680 settler attacks across more than 270 communities – an average of five per day – with the olive harvest season marked by widespread assaults on farmers, trees and agricultural infrastructure.
Reproduced below is an extract from an article by Kathy Kelly which focusses on Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, as well as the “Gazafication” of the occupied West Bank.
Israel and its partners continue waging genocide against Palestinian people. Those who, so far, have survived the hideous attacks since October 7, 2023, now face ongoing jeopardy. Hemmed in by yet another military border, over two million Palestinians in “East Gaza” live amid rubble, unexploded ordnance, decaying corpses, starvation conditions, and the uncertainties of inhabiting makeshift homes without sewage, sanitation, clean water, or protection against harsh winter weather. A saddening certainty was hammered home on November 17, 2025, when not a single country stood up for them at the United Nations. The Security Council resolved to accept President Trump’s plan for Gaza’s future, a proposal which makes no effort to hold Israel and the U.S. accountable, in the near term, for war crimes and relentless ethnic cleansing.
Anticipating what some call the “Gazafication” of the West Bank, human rights groups are calling on the Israeli military to cease their attacks on Palestinian neighborhoods and refugee camps. Most recently, the Israeli Defense Forces raided homes in the governorate of Tubas after expelling more than twenty families from the besieged Al Far’a refugee camp.
Throughout the world, nations continue trading with Israel, perpetuating a status quo that flaunts international law. While the U.S. sanctions International Criminal Court judges for ruling against Israeli settlers who illegally occupy Palestinian land in the West Bank, the settlers have intensified their brutality, descending on Bedouin communities, villagers grazing their flocks, and Palestinians aiming to harvest olive tree crops.
Using jeeps, bulldozers, ATVs, rifles, and other equipment supplied by the Israeli government and military, settlers beat civilians with clubs, torch vehicles, steal livestock, and demolish homes …
More information
Kathy Kelly, ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain: Genocide Is Wrong’, Common Dreams, Dec 5, 2025.
Simon Speakman Cordall, ‘Qalqilya targeted as Israel escalates raids in northern West Bank’, Al Jazeera, Dec 4, 2025.
Amnesty International, ‘“They steal the land, the water, by force”: West Bank activist on Palestinians’ struggle to remain on their land ’, Dec 4, 2025.
Human Rights Watch, ‘International Criminal Court: Justice at Risk’, Dec 1, 2025.
Jason Burke, ‘‘They have total impunity’: West Bank settler violence surges after Gaza ceasefire’, The Guardian, Nov 18, 2025.