UN data puts settler attacks in the West Bank near 3,000 since the start of 2025

United Nations data records close to 3,000 attacks by armed Israeli settler groups on Palestinian towns, villages and farmland across the occupied West Bank since the beginning of 2025.

The UN said in a statement issued on Sunday that assaults by settlers and by Israeli forces have escalated to a degree it had not previously recorded, and that Palestinians are being subjected to systematic killings and to forced displacement reaching a large number of residential and Bedouin communities.

Its report counts hundreds of serious injuries alongside heavy damage to property and to the infrastructure villages depend on. Homes and mosques have been set alight, and water networks — the supply a farming village cannot replace on its own — have been wrecked.

The report also states that Israeli forces protected and covered the attackers as this was going on, which is the finding that separates it from a tally of scattered assaults. A count of 3,000 incidents describes frequency; cover from the army describes permission, and it is the second that tells a Bedouin community whether staying on its land is still possible.

Settler violence in the West Bank long predates the current period, but it has risen sharply since Israel began its war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023.