Friday, November 28, 2025

NAKBA II
Settlers continue to target Palestinian farmland in occupied West Bank



Israeli forces, who arrived at the scene, expell the Palestinians from their land and declare the area a “military closed zone,” after an Israeli settler attempted to run over Palestinian farmers heading to their fields in the Ras al-Qadi area, north of Halhul town near Hebron in West Bank on November 13, 2025. [Wisam Hashlamoun – Anadolu Agency]

November 28, 2025 


Israeli settlers stole two cows belonging to a Palestinian man on Thursday evening in the Wadi Qana area, part of the land of Deir Istiya town, north-west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank.

The owner said a group of settlers entered the area where the cows were kept, took them, and then fled towards nearby settlement outposts.

Anti-settlement activist Nazmi Al-Salman told the Palestinian News Agency, Wafa, that the theft was part of a systematic policy aimed at pressuring farmers and pushing them to leave their land.

He noted that such actions have increased in Wadi Qana in an effort to impose new conditions that support settlement expansion in the area.

Wadi Qana is one of the main agricultural zones in Salfit and continues to face repeated settler attacks targeting farmers and their property.

The occupied West Bank has seen an unprecedented rise in settlement activity and settler assaults since the start of the genocide war on Gaza on 7 October 2023, alongside direct army protection and clear government support.



32,000 Palestinians displaced by Israeli assault in northern West Bank: UN agency


November 27, 2025 



The Israeli army, which launched large-scale attacks, continues its raids for a second day in the city of Tubas in the northern part of the West Bank on November 27, 2025. [Issam Rimawi – Anadolu Agency]

More than 32,000 Palestinians have been displaced by an ongoing Israeli offensive in refugee camps in the northern West Bank, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said Thursday, Anadolu reports.

The Israeli army launched a large-scale military offensive in the Jenin refugee camp on Jan. 21, which later spread to the Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps and other areas in the northern West Bank.

Rolan Friedrich, Director of UNRWA Affairs for the West Bank, said the Israeli assault emptied the Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams refugee camps, displacing some 32,000 residents.

“And yet, even in these ghost towns that were once vibrant camps, Israeli forces still see the need to order demolitions for the sake of so-called ‘military purposes,” Friedrich added in a statement.

He noted that the Israeli authorities issued two mass demolition orders for over 190 buildings in the Jenin refugee camp, while 12 more buildings will be demolished in the upcoming days, which marks “the newest episode in continued efforts to re-engineer the topography of refugee camps in the northern West Bank.”

The UNRWA official said Israel’s systematic destruction violates the basic principles of international law and expands the army’s control over the refugee camps in the long term.

Friedrich called for the rebuilding of the refugee camps and the return of the displaced residents.

“They must not be trapped in interminable displacement,” he added.

On Wednesday, the Israeli army began another military campaign in the Tubas governorate in the northern West Bank, arresting over 60 Palestinians and injuring 10 others.

Alongside the two-year war in Gaza, where nearly 70,000 people have been killed, assaults by the army and illegal settlers in the West Bank have killed at least 1,083 Palestinians and injured about 11,000, while more than 20,500 have been detained, according to official Palestinian figures.

In a landmark opinion last July, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory illegal and called for the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

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