Summary of Settler and Occupation Forces Violations: June 2025 Report
The genocide on Gaza has been ongoing since 7 October 2023, in one of the longest and most violent rounds of Israeli aggression on the Strip. There was a temporary truce period that lasted about two months before the war resumed on 18 March 2025. Since then, the aggression has entered a more ferocious and widespread phase, claiming more lives and leaving behind massive destruction to infrastructure and vital facilities. In the West Bank, demolition and displacement operations continue across all governorates, particularly in the Jenin, Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps.
The following summary reviews the most notable attacks by the settler and occupation forces against Palestinian civilians and their land during the month of June 2025. This report is based on information from reports by the Palestinian Monitoring Group of the Negotiations Affairs Department of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority, and Peace Now.
Genocidal Aggression on the Gaza Strip
After 633 days of genocidal onslaught, the occupying forces continue their bombardment across the Gaza Strip and are expanding their ground operations, bringing the death toll since 7 October 2023 to 57,012 martyrs, with another 134,592 wounded. Of these, 6,454 Palestinians have been killed and 22,551 injured since the war resumed last March. Since the beginning of 2025, at least 107 humanitarian aid workers have been killed in the Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of humanitarian workers killed since the outbreak of war in October 2023 to 479. This figure includes 326 United Nations employees, 48 Red Crescent Society staff, three International Committee of the Red Cross staff, and 102 employees of other humanitarian organisations.
Reports indicate that tents and shelters continue to be targeted, in addition to intense military attacks on the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis. Victims Meanwhile, the occupying army is forcing Palestinian civilians to move to the Al-Mawasi area, describing it as a safe zone. Over the past three months, 112 attacks on the Al-Mawasi area have been recorded, resulting in the deaths of 380 civilians, including 158 women and children. By the end of June, the occupation had bombed 10 schools that were being used to shelter displaced persons.
During this month, the occupation army issued three orders requiring the evacuation of residents from areas in the governorates of Khan Yunis, Deir al-Balah, northern Gaza and Gaza City. Residents are now trapped in shrinking areas within the Strip, as military operations continue and Israeli evacuation orders expand. Reports indicate that 85% of the Gaza Strip is classified as military zones or subject to evacuation orders, with the Israeli army issuing 50 evacuation orders since the resumption of the war on 18 March, covering 78% of the Gaza Strip and leading to the displacement of 714,000 civilians. The number of civilian casualties attempting to access food supplies has risen to 640, with more than 4,488 injured since 27 May 2025.
Amid ongoing military operations and the systematic targeting of educational facilities, at least 61 attacks on schools have been recorded since 18 March 2025, leading to the suspension of 329 temporary educational facilities, with only 298 facilities still operating at the end of this month. This compares to the situation during the ceasefire last February, when 570 temporary educational facilities were operating and providing services to approximately 249,000 students.
Key Statistics on Violations by the Occupation in the West Bank and Jerusalem
Since the beginning of 2025, Palestinians in the West Bank have faced a steady wave of forced displacement, with more than 2,300 individuals displaced since October 2023, amid escalating settler violence and tightened restrictions on movement and access. With military tensions between Israel and Iran escalating on 13 June, the occupation forces imposed a partial closure on several checkpoints in the West Bank, affecting the daily lives of Palestinians and forcing them to take long detours to access services during closure times.
This comes as demolition operations continue in the Jenin refugee camp, since orders were issued to demolish dozens of structures on 9 June, with repeated demolitions taking place in several neighbourhoods of the camp, amid a ban on entry to the camp and restrictions on the movement of residents. At the same time, the occupation forces resumed demolition operations in Tulkarem camp on 30 June, demolishing structures comprising several residential units and issuing orders to demolish 104 other buildings inside the camp. In Nour Shams camp, demolitions continue with the closure of the area and its conversion into a military zone. Reports indicate that demolitions in Tulkarem and Nour Shams camps have affected 400 homes, while another 2,500 homes have been damaged, leading to the displacement of 25,000 individuals.
Martyrs and wounded:
During the month of June, 16 citizens were martyred, including 3 children, 1 woman and 2 prisoners. The Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate recorded the highest number of martyrs with 5, followed by the governorates of Nablus, Tulkarem, Jenin and Hebron with 2 martyrs in each governorate. Among the martyrs was a citizen killed by the Israeli army in an assassination operation, and others during raids on Palestinian towns and villages. At least 124 citizens were wounded, including 19 children, 2 women, 1 paramedic and 1 citizen with special needs.
In an escalation that perpetuates the reality of violence by the occupation army and its settlers in the West Bank, the occupation forces killed 5 Palestinians on 25 June, 3 of whom were killed during a violent attack by settlers on the village of Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah, where settlers set fire to a number of Palestinian homes and properties and threw stones at the village residents under the protection of occupation soldiers. In the context of a systematic Israeli policy combining settler violence and the encroachment of the Israeli security and military establishment, a 22-year-old Palestinian man died in an Israeli prison at the end of June. He had been arrested in March 2023. This brings the number of Palestinian prisoners who have died in Israeli prisons since 7 October 2023 to 26, most of them from the West Bank.
Arrests and Raids on Residential Areas:
The occupation forces arrested 1,215 citizens in the West Bank and Jerusalem, including 27 children and 18 women, among them a university student and a journalist. The arrests were concentrated in the city of Hebron, with 268 arrests, followed by Nablus with 195 arrests, Ramallah with 138 detainees, Jenin with 137 detainees, and Bethlehem with 131 detainees. The rest of the arrests were distributed between Jerusalem, Qalqilya, Tubas, Salfit, Tulkarem, and Jericho.
According to data provided by the Israeli Prison Service to the organisation HaMoked, the number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons reached 10,397, including 3,562 administrative detainees without trial. The figures do not include prisoners from Gaza who were arrested after 7 October 2023.
The occupation army carried out 1,217 raids on various Palestinian residential areas in the West Bank and Jerusalem, concentrated in Ramallah with 196 raids, followed by Nablus with 168 raids. The rest of the raids were distributed across the governorates of Jerusalem, Jenin, Tubas, Tulkarem, Qalqilya, Salfit, Jericho, Bethlehem and Hebron.
Demolition of homes and structures:
During the first half of 2025, occupation forces demolished 741 Palestinian homes and structures across the occupied West Bank, including 149 homes in Area C on the grounds that they lacked building permits, resulting in the displacement of 716 individuals. compared to the first six months of 2024, which resulted in the displacement of 368 individuals. In Jerusalem, 97 homes were demolished, resulting in the displacement of 286 individuals.
Land Confiscation and Demolitions:
During the first half of this year, the occupation authorities seized 618 dunams of citizens’ land under various pretexts, issuing 36 orders of seizure for military purposes and one order of expropriation on the pretext of paving and expanding settlement roads.
In the last days of June, the occupation authorities issued four military orders to seize 22,300 dunams in the governorates of Nablus, Tubas and Jenin for security reasons, including the construction of military roads, distributed between the village of Burqa with 13,525 dunams, the villages of Burin and Tal with 6,274 dunums, Hawara with 2,400 dunums, 56 dunums east of Tubas, and 45 dunums southeast of Jenin.
During the first six months of 2025, the occupation forces and settlers cut down and destroyed 12,0667 trees, including 6,144 olive trees, distributed among the governorates of Bethlehem with 5,359 trees, Ramallah with 2,282 trees, and Nablus with 1,774 trees.
Settler Attacks:
During the month of June, 321 cases of attacks by settlers on Palestinian citizens and their property were recorded, including raiding and cultivating agricultural land to take control of it, destroying Palestinian crops and trees, systematic attacks on Palestinian villages and towns, shooting at houses and burning vehicles, as well as stealing and confiscating citizens’ property.
Since the beginning of 2025, reports have documented 591 incidents of attacks by settlers, resulting in 223 Palestinians being injured. This means that the average number of injuries resulting from settler attacks per month is 44, the highest rate recorded since 2005, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) .
Settlement Activity:
From the beginning of 2025 until the end of June, the occupation authorities examined 165 structural plans for the expansion of settlements or the establishment of new ones, including 124 plans in the West Bank and 41 plans in Jerusalem. The plans included the construction of 8,685 new housing units in West Bank settlements and 8,865 in Jerusalem settlements. Settlers also established 23 new outposts during the reporting period in the governorates of Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron, Qalqilya, Tubas and Jerusalem.
On 21 May 2025, the Israeli Civil Administration’s Higher Planning Council discussed a new plan that includes the approval of 1,673 new housing units deep inside the occupied West Bank, spread across six settlements. These units are concentrated in the settlement of ‘Eli’ north of Nablus, which will be allocated 1,064 units. The plan also includes the construction of 393 units in ‘Beitar Illit’ southwest of Bethlehem, 136 units in ‘Kiryat Netafim’ in the Salfit governorate, 58 units in ‘Kadumim’ near Qalqilya, 16 units in ‘Givat Ze’ev’ northwest of Jerusalem, and 6 units in ‘Alon Moreh’ east of Nablus.
As part of a series of accelerated settlement plans in the West Bank, on 18 June 2025, the Higher Planning Council discussed approving the construction of 430 new settlement units in the settlements of Eli and Givat Ze’ev. The plans include the construction of 347 housing units in the “Belgi Maim” outpost, which was converted into a neighbourhood of the “Eli” settlement a year ago.
As part of Israel’s efforts to strengthen its control over large areas of the West Bank, on 10 June, the Knesset approved an additional 35 million shekels, at the request of the Ministry of Finance, to fund the installation of cellular antennas in the West Bank through the Civil Administration, under the pretext of improving network coverage for settlers. What is striking about the decision is that the funding will be deducted from the ‘Civil Administration Fund for Regional Development,’ a fund whose resources are collected from Palestinians through fines and confiscations and are supposed to be used for their benefit. This decision is a continuation of the government’s approach of using funds allocated to Palestinians for settlement projects. Last March, the government allocated 335 million shekels from the same fund to pave what is known as the “Fabric of Life Road” or the “Sovereignty Road.”
During the period covered by the report, the Israeli Civil Administration announced the classification of approximately 800 dunums of land surrounding the Malachei HaShalomsettlement between Ramallah and Nablus as ‘state land,’ located specifically between the villages of Duma and Al-Mughayir, in an area witnessing an escalation in settlement activity and related violence. It is noteworthy that in February 2023, the Israeli Cabinet approved the establishment of nine new settlements, including ‘Malachei HaShalom,’ but the land of this outpost was not previously classified as ‘state land.’ Since the formation of the current Israeli government in December 2022, approximately 25,510 dunams of West Bank land have been classified as ‘state land,’ which is roughly half of the total land declared as such since the signing of the Oslo Accords. The policy of declaring “state land” is one of the main tools Israel uses to extend its control over the occupied territories, as the classified land becomes public property that is off-limits to Palestinians and is allocated exclusively for settlement projects.
The data shows how the Malachei HaShalomoutpost, established in 2015 near a military base, has become the centre of a number of pastoral outposts spread over thousands of dunams in the area. This settlement expansion was accompanied by a campaign of forced displacement targeting neighbouring Palestinian communities. In August 2023, residents of the Kabun community, south of the outpost, under pressure from settler violence. In October of the same year, the residents of Khirbet Jibait and Ein al-Rashash, north of the outpost, were also displaced. The villages of al-Mughayyir and Duma were not spared from repeated attacks, as the outpost became a hub for settlement and systematic violence.
In Jerusalem, forced evictions continue in the Batn al-Hawa neighbourhood of Silwan, where in recent days court rulings ordered 3 more Palestinian families to leave their homes in favour of settlers. These families, a total of 37 people, are at risk of losing houses they have lived in for decades. This is part of a wider campaign aimed at expelling around 700 Palestinians from the neighbourhood and replacing them with settlers. The Israeli courts are applying a discriminatory law from 1970, which allows Jews to claim properties they lost in 1948, while Palestinians are forbidden from reclaiming their properties seized under the “Absentees’ Property Law” of 1950. This law is applied only in East Jerusalem, showing its discriminatory nature.
So far, 16 Palestinian families have been forced to leave their homes in the neighbourhood, including the Shihadeh, Jawad Abu Nab, and Gheith families. Final eviction orders have also been issued against the Al-Shuwaikhi and Al-Ouda families, as well as the family of Umm Nasser Rajabi. Other appeals are still pending, such as the case of the Abdel Fattah Rajabi family, which includes 26 people. The Central Court is currently reviewing five appeal cases against eviction rulings issued by the Magistrate’s Court at the beginning of 2025, affecting homes sheltering more than 130 people from the Rajabi and Bsbeis families. In addition, five other lawsuits are still under review at the Magistrate’s Court, involving dozens of families.
