"Wall Resistance Commission": Settlers Carried Out 443 Attacks During One Month of Ongoing War

SadaNews - The head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Minister Muayyad Shaban, stated that settlers carried out 443 attacks during the month following the outbreak of war and the current regional tensions, exploiting the state of unrest to intensify their assaults on Palestinian villages and communities.

Shaban clarified in a report issued by the commission today, Saturday, that these assaults were characterized by escalation and organization, and included direct gunfire, burning of homes and property, and imposing new realities on the ground, in a context aimed at changing the geographical and demographic reality in the West Bank.

He indicated that the assaults were concentrated in the governorates of Nablus (108 attacks), Hebron (99), Ramallah (76), Bethlehem (32), Jerusalem (24), and Salfit (23), in addition to Jericho and Qalqilya.

Shaban stated that the past four weeks witnessed lethal terrorist assaults, which resulted in the martyrdom of 9 citizens at the hands of terrorist settlers, where brothers Muhammad and Fahim Ma'mar were martyred in Qaryut, Amer Shnaran in Masafer Yatta, and three martyrs in Khirbet Abu Falakh in Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate, namely: Tha'er Hamayel, Fari' Hamayel, and Muhammad Murra who died as a result of inhaling tear gas, causing cardiac arrest before reaching the hospital, in addition to martyr A'id Arar in Qiraouat Bani Zaid in Salfit governorate who suffered a heart attack following the settlers' attack on him, and martyr Muhammad Faraj Al-Malhi in Bethlehem.

He pointed out that the wave of assaults led to the forced displacement of 6 Bedouin communities, affecting 58 families comprising 256 individuals, including 79 women and 166 children, due to the assaults and threats from the settlers, as follows:

•   On March 8, settlers displaced the Yirza community in the northern Jordan Valley, which includes 11 families comprising 69 individuals, including 21 women and 40 children.

•  On March 7, settlers displaced the Eastern Aqaba community in the Jordan Valley, which consists of 9 families comprising 38 individuals, including 14 women and 16 children.

•  On March 6, settlers displaced 13 families from Khirbet Shakara near the village of Douma in Nablus governorate, comprising 59 individuals, including 19 women and 35 children.

•  On March 5, settlers displaced the Arab Al-Zuhaira community in Nablus governorate, displacing 4 families comprising 25 individuals, including 11 women and 15 children.

•  On March 16, amid assaults and threats from settlers, 6 families were displaced from the central Fasayil community, which consists of 47 citizens, including 26 children.

•  On March 15, settlers partially displaced 15 families comprising 91 citizens from the Samra community in the northern Jordan Valley to another location, including 39 children.

He also indicated attempts to establish 14 new colonial outposts, in addition to 123 acts of sabotage, and 18 assaults that resulted in igniting fires on citizens' properties, including 6 in Nablus, and 4 each in Ramallah and Hebron, as well as a fire in Qalqilya, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jenin, and 3 acts of assault on religious sites, which included an attempted arson of the Muhammad Fayyad Mosque in Douma south of Nablus, and an assault on the Majdal Bani Fadl Mosque, in addition to the persistence in storming Al-Aqsa Mosque and preventing Palestinian citizens from accessing it.

He emphasized that this escalation reflects a systematic policy that exploits international preoccupation with the war, calling on the international community to assume its responsibilities and take urgent steps to stop these violations and provide protection for the Palestinian people.

Shaban pointed out that during the same period, the occupation authorities granted official approval to implement a road and infrastructure path on the lands of Beit Ummar northwest of Hebron, without the usual planning procedures, in preparation for the establishment of a new settlement named "Ir Keren," which was announced through the occupation cabinet and will provide geographical continuity between the settlements of Karmei Tsur and Migdal Oz at the expense of Palestinian lands.

During the same phase, the occupation authorities issued 12 orders of confiscation for military and security purposes, seizing 225 dunams of citizens' lands in the governorates of Ramallah, Jenin, Jerusalem, Jericho, Tubas, Nablus, and Salfit, aimed at building military roads and establishing sites and buffer zones, the largest of which was the military order number T/3/26 which confiscated 128 dunams of lands from the town of Arabeh in Jenin governorate for the purpose of establishing a military site, and another carrying the number T/37/26 targets the lands of Al-Mazraa Al-Sharqiya, Silwad, and Deir Jrer by seizing 41 dunams, aiming to establish a security buffer zone around Mount Al-Asour.

In addition, the occupation authorities issued a total of 27 military orders under the name of security measures, which require the removal of trees from an area of 1391 dunams of citizens' lands in the governorates of Ramallah with 12 orders, 3 orders in Jenin, and 2 orders each for Qalqilya, Tulkarem, Nablus, Salfit, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem, the largest of which was the military order number 9/26 targeting the forest cover over an area of 380 dunams of the lands of Silwad, Attara, and Ein Senia north of Ramallah governorate, along with an order targeting 139 dunams of lands from Ramin in Tulkarem governorate and another order targeting 95 dunams of lands from the towns of Beita and Huwara in Nablus governorate.

Shaban clarified that the outcomes of the first month since the outbreak of the regional war reveal unprecedented escalation in settlers' assaults, accompanied by systematic policies from the occupation authorities to provide cover and support for these violations.

  He pointed out that this escalation was not spontaneous, but was part of a clear exploitation of the international and media preoccupation with the war, which facilitated the intensification of attacks and imposing new realities on the Palestinian land and its inhabitants.

Shaban indicated that the increasing pace of assaults, forced displacement operations, rapid confiscation decisions, and road construction all reflect an organized push to expand the colonial project and reshape the geography and demographics in the West Bank in a short period of time. He warned that the continuation of this path could undermine any chances for stability, reiterating his call to the international community and human rights and humanitarian organizations to fulfill their legal and moral responsibilities and take effective steps to stop these violations and provide protection for the Palestinian people.

On February 28, 2026, the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission issued a press statement warning of settlers exploiting the conditions of war, calling on our Palestinian people to remain vigilant and cautious regarding a new escalation of settler crimes amid the state of regional tension and media contention, and the international preoccupation with recent military developments and the war on Iran, warning of the danger of the occupation state exploiting this political and media climate, especially the terrorist settlers' militias, to carry out systematic terrorist operations against Palestinian citizens in villages and Bedouin communities.