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For decades, the Israeli military has uprooted olive trees – an important Palestinian cultural symbol – across the West Bank as part of successive Israeli government efforts to seize Palestinian land and forcibly displace residents.

Settler violence has also been surging in the West Bank, with 757 attacks recorded in the first half of 2025 alone, according to data from the Israeli NGO Peace Now.

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For decades, the Israeli military has uprooted olive trees – an important Palestinian cultural symbol – across the West Bank as part of successive Israeli government efforts to seize Palestinian land and forcibly displace residents.

Settler violence has also been surging in the West Bank, with 757 attacks recorded in the first half of 2025 alone, according to data from the Israeli NGO Peace Now.

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Dozens of Israeli settlers launched arson attacks targeting a Palestinian warehouse, a Bedouin village, and farmland in the north of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. Several Palestinians were injured.

 

The incidents were the latest in a recent surge in settler violence coinciding with the olive harvest season, when Palestinians head to their agricultural land around towns and villages.

 

It comes just after the UN's humanitarian office said the number of violent attacks by settlers last month was the highest since it began collecting figures nearly 20 years ago.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78zygz4xg9o

 

The warehouse in Beit Lid was attacked, with lorries set on fire

 

Israeli settlers torched a mosque and sprayed it with graffiti in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to Palestinian authorities, the latest in a surge of increasingly brazen settler attacks against Palestinians.

 

The Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs said settlers attacked the Hajjah Hamidah Mosque in Salfit in the northern West Bank, calling it a “heinous crime and a blatant assault on the feelings of Muslims.”

 

“The attack resulted in parts of the mosque being set on fire and defaced with racist graffiti by settler gangs, who carry out daily assaults on Islamic holy sites and citizens’ properties amid a systematic escalation in both the frequency and nature of these violations,” the ministry statement said.

 

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Palestinian men inspect burned property in the mosque. - Ali Sawafta/Reuters

 

Images shared by the ministry showed writing in Hebrew on the exterior of the mosque saying, “Mohammed is a pig,” a reference to Islam’s prophet, and “Not afraid of Avi Bluth.” Bluth is the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) commander in the West Bank, who issued a statement on Wednesday condemning the settler attacks and calling the perpetrators an “anarchist fringe youth.”