{"id":565545,"date":"2026-07-29T17:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/565545\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:10:09","slug":"un-warns-west-bank-settler-violence-hits-all-time-high-as-calls-grow-to-end-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/565545\/","title":{"rendered":"UN warns West Bank settler violence hits \u2018all-time high\u2019 as calls grow to end occupation’"},"content":{"rendered":"

As of 24 July,\u00a0the agency reports<\/a> that 76 Palestinians and one Israeli have died this year in settler attacks. Since Friday, eight Palestinians \u2013 including a boy \u2013 and two members of the Israeli military have also been killed in the region.<\/p>\n

The number of settler attacks has increased each year since 2023 \u2013 following the brutal Hamas attacks on southern Israeli communities \u2013 rising to 1,835 last year,\u00a0according to the UN\u2019s humanitarian aid office<\/a> (OCHA<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n

There were about 190 attacks per month in the first four months of 2026, putting the West Bank on a trajectory to reach more than 2,000 attacks by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Alongside security forces, Israeli settlers in the West Bank \u2013 with financial incentives from the Government \u2013 frequently attack families, burn mosques, and destroy and confiscate property, OHCHR<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

Movement restrictions preventing Palestinians from accessing essential services are now tighter than ever, the office added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are alarmed by the Israeli Government\u2019s announcement to further increase the number of settlements and outposts, and open calls by Israeli leaders for revenge and collective punishment against Palestinian communities, accompanied by threats to turn the West Bank into another Gaza,\u201d OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said.<\/p>\n

Two-State solution must remain<\/p>\n

Speaking from Jerusalem on Friday, UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Ramiz Alakbarov\u00a0called the continued loss of life<\/a> in the West Bank \u201cdeeply alarming,\u201d urging Israel to hold perpetrators accountable and all actors to pursue a two-state solution.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no military or violent solution to this conflict,\u201d Mr. Alakbarov said.<\/p>\n

In September, the General Assembly endorsed the\u00a0New York Declaration<\/a> calling for a two-State solution, though Israel and the US voted against it.<\/p>\n

The escalating violence in the West Bank comes two years after the International Court of Justice<\/a> (ICJ<\/a>) ruled in an advisory opinion that Israel\u2019s occupation of Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank since 1967 is illegal and that countries should not recognize Israel\u2019s actions related to the occupation. Israel quickly condemned the ruling.<\/p>\n

Briefing the Security Council<\/a> in New York on Tuesday, Mr. Alakbarov noted that Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich recently announced the approval of several new settlements, which the peace coordinator called \u201cillegal under international law.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI call upon all parties to take urgent steps to reverse the dangerous trajectory in the West Bank,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

Call to end occupation<\/p>\n

OHCHR\u2019s Ms. Shamdasani reiterated on Wednesday the UN\u2019s call for countries to work together to \u201cbring an end to the Israeli occupation\u201d of the West Bank.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith attacks by Israeli settlers, and the creation of settlements and outposts hitting an all-time high, third States must act urgently and in unison to halt the continuing killing and dispossession of the Palestinian people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As of 24 July,\u00a0the agency reports that 76 Palestinians and one Israeli have died this year in settler…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-565545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}