This rapidly escalating wave of attacks on the ground has turned into a systematic tool of annexation and dispossession aimed at expelling Palestinians from their lands, protected by the armor of impunity provided to the perpetrators by the Israeli judiciary and security mechanism.
The fact that the Israeli police close more than 90 percent of the files filed against the Israelis who usurped Palestinian lands without preparing any indictment, and the conviction rate remains at only 3 percent, creates a de facto area of immunity for extremist groups and paves the way for reckless repetition of attacks.
The AA correspondent compiled the increasing attacks of the Israelis, who usurped Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank, since October 2023.
Keeping track of exponential attacks is becoming increasingly difficult
According to the news of the French newspaper Le Monde, the attacks, arson and destruction of the Israelis, who usurped Palestinian lands throughout the occupied West Bank, have increased exponentially day by day. So much so that it has become almost impossible to keep a tally of these events.
It is now considered dangerous for Palestinians to travel at night in their own territory, namely the West Bank.
Palestinian officials reported that the situation had seriously deteriorated in recent weeks. In a statement made by Palestinian official authorities on August 25, "The Cabinet warned that over 470 attacks were recorded last week alone, and that these attacks escalated throughout the provinces with the protection and participation of Israeli forces." statements were included.
Even healthcare workers in the region are regularly targeted. The World Health Organization recorded 98 attacks on medical personnel and paramedics in the first seven months of 2026; This number has increased sharply. Nearly 100 cases of emergency services being blocked by the military or Israelis usurping Palestinian territory were also reported.
Attacks have been increasing exponentially since October 2023
The violence perpetrated by the Israelis who usurped Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank has now gone beyond the scope of individual excesses and turned into a state-sponsored organized annexation and dispossession mechanism.
Official records of the Israeli army, field reports of human rights organizations and United Nations data; Concrete figures show that racist crimes and organized raids in the West Bank have increased steadily every year in the nearly three-year period since October 2023, when the attacks on the Gaza Strip began.
Data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reveals that 3,033 attacks were carried out by Israelis who usurped Palestinian lands between January 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026.
Accordingly, while 1291 attacks by the Israelis who usurped Palestinian lands were recorded in 2023, this number increased to 1449 in 2024, 1835 in 2025 and 761 in only the first four months of 2026. This table; It shows that the number of attacks, which was an average of 153 per month in 2025, reached an average of 190 per month in 2026, resulting in a 24 percent increase in the monthly attack rate.
Over the last year, all provinces of the occupied West Bank have been subjected to attacks by Israelis who usurped Palestinian lands.
According to the Palestinian authorities, 1,185 Palestinians lost their lives, 13,177 people were injured and 24,600 people were detained in the attacks carried out by the Israeli army and the Israelis who usurped Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank since October 2023.
While there have been 63 Palestinians who lost their lives in the attacks of the Israelis who usurped Palestinian lands since October 2023, 27 of these people were murdered in 2026.
According to the Council for Combating the Separation (Shame) Wall and Jewish Settlements affiliated with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), 27 Palestinians lost their lives in attacks carried out by Israelis who usurped Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank in 2026.
The center where the attacks were most intense was Nablus with 33 percent, followed by Ramallah and Hebron with 19 percent each.
On average, more than 3 Palestinians are injured per day
The increase in the frequency of injuries caused by Israelis who usurped Palestinian lands summarizes the seriousness of the situation. While on average every 3 days a Palestinian was injured by Israelis usurping Palestinian lands in 2020, this rate increased to 2 people a day in 2025 and to more than 3 people a day by 2026.
The main characteristics of the crimes committed are physical assault, sexual abuse, blocking of village roads, arson of houses and vehicles, stone-throwing, and harassment with sound and gas bombs. At the same time, agricultural crimes that directly target livelihoods, such as uprooting olive trees, destroying water wells and animal theft, are operated as the most critical means of forcibly displacing Palestinians from the lands they have lived in for centuries.
The most concrete leg of this organized violence network on the field is illegal farms. The number of illegal farms, which was around 30 before October 2023, increased to over 120 with more than 90 new settlements established during the intervening period.
These illegal farms, run by Israelis who usurped Palestinian lands, have turned into operation centers where organized attacks, fires and land grabs against surrounding villages are directly planned.
In crimes committed against Palestinians, 93.6 percent of the files were closed before an indictment was prepared.
The most fundamental factor behind such a reckless escalation of violence stands out as the policy of systematic impunity provided by the Israeli judiciary and security mechanism.
According to the report published by the Israeli rights organization Yesh Din on January 1, 2026, 93.6 percent of the investigation files opened by the Israeli police and followed by the organization regarding the crimes of the Israelis who usurped Palestinian lands committed against the Palestinians in the West Bank between January 2005 and November 2025 were closed without any indictment being prepared.
The report, which included the analysis of the opened files, noted that the police failed to investigate 82 percent of these cases.
The report also emphasized that only 3 percent of investigations into ideologically motivated crimes committed against Palestinians between 2005 and 2025 resulted in full or partial conviction.
This situation, which has continued for more than 20 years, shows that impunity is not just negligence, but rather evidence that Israel deliberately enables and actually collaborates in violence against defenseless civilians.
Due to this structural protection, the rate of Palestinians making official complaints to Israeli authorities has dropped to the lowest level due to fear of retaliation and loss of faith in justice.
Netanyahu and his government are trying to set fire to the West Bank before the election
Israeli journalist and researcher Neri Zilber, in his post on the social media platform of US-based company X, said, "There is a daily attempt by the Netanyahu government to set fire to the West Bank" before the elections. he wrote.
Palestinian authorities accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of the government, particularly Defense Minister Yisrael Katz, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, of providing political support for the occupiers' attacks.
Observers in the region and Palestinian officials emphasize that this systematic violence, protected by impunity and politically sponsored, has only one ultimate goal:
"Making the West Bank ready for de facto annexation, deporting the Palestinians altogether, and permanently eliminating the possibility of a two-state solution recognized by international law."
Israel has occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since 1967. The international community considers illegal Israeli settlements established in occupied Palestinian territory to be illegal under international law.
According to Palestinian statistics, there are approximately 750 thousand Israelis in the occupied West Bank in 141 illegal settlements and 224 illegal settlements established by Jewish groups and considered "illegal" according to Israeli laws. Approximately 250 thousand of them live in 15 settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.
