The head of the Committee of Resistance to the Wall and the Settlements, Muayyad Shaaban, detailed in a report on the subject that the Army and the Police carried out 1,024 assaults and the settlers another 204.

Jerusalem Governorate was the most affected by the violence with 204 incidents followed by Ramallah (137) and Nablus (135).

He noted that the attacks included land expropriation, settlement expansion, extrajudicial killings and sabotage, as well as demolitions and confiscation of property.

Shaaban said that in August, settlers burned numerous Palestinian homes and vehicles, in addition to uprooting hundreds of olive trees, one of the main means of livelihood for West Bank farmers.

He warned that the aim of these actions is to force Palestinians to leave their homes.

The settlers’ attacks are backed by both Israel’s armed forces and the far-right government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu and with the complicity of its allies, he said.

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