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Settler Violence Escalates: Villages Demolished, Thousands Displaced

8/4/2026

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Israel Expels Residents

In July, four Palestinians and two Israelis were killed in Tal near Nablus, prompting retaliatory attacks.
Defence minister Israel Katz ordered the IDF to seize a refugee camp in July, signaling an offensive.
In January 2025, the Israeli military expelled residents from two Tulkarem refugee camps housing 33,000 people, leaving many in temporary shelters.
Settler expansion added checkpoints, closed roads and spray-painted over Arabic signs, slowing West Bank travel.

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Officials Decry Terrorism

600 officials called the 2,500 2026 Jordan Valley attacks terrorism in a July 28 letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu.
The Jordan Valley is 10 km wide and 100 km long in Area C per the 1995 Oslo Accords.
Since 2023 Israel approved over 100 settlements, 30 settlements and nine outposts in the Jordan Valley, where outposts receive protection and become regularized.
Settler harassment, arson and attacks have forced 45 Jordan Valley villages to flee.

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Settlers Paint

Settlers painted a “Greater Israel” map at the entrance of Ein el Hilweh.
All houses in Ein el Hilweh, once home to roughly 150 families, have been demolished.
The tent, the only remaining structure, provides temporary shelter for displaced villagers.
The village’s destruction illustrates forced displacement of Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
The mural conveys an expansionist ideology that starkly contrasts with the residents’ plight.

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Israel Expels Residents

In July, four Palestinians and two Israelis were killed in Tal near Nablus, prompting retaliatory attacks.
Defence minister Israel Katz ordered the IDF to seize a refugee camp in July, signaling an offensive.
In January 2025, the Israeli military expelled residents from two Tulkarem refugee camps housing 33,000 people, leaving many in temporary shelters.
Settler expansion added checkpoints, closed roads and spray-painted over Arabic signs, slowing West Bank travel.

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