This has been accelerating without prevention from international community:
Before Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip in October 2023, the enclave had around 6,500 poultry farms that supplied about three million chickens to the local market each month. Now, 666 days later, over 93 per cent of these farms have been completely destroyed, and the few remaining have ceased operations entirely.
Jewish settlers slaughter Palestinian livestock, assault family in West Bank, IDF says
According to the IDF, soldiers and police forces followed a report that “several Israeli civilians had slaughtered livestock and vandalized Palestinian property.
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Israeli settlers accused of killing 117 sheep in West Bank attack against Palestinian Bedouins
Palestinian leadership called the alleged attack an attempt to displace people in the West Bank.
A veterinarian tends to a wounded sheep after settlers attacked a Bedouin community in the Jordan valley, in the West Bank, July 18, 2025.(photo credit: REUTERS/ALI SAWAFTA)ByREUTERSJULY 18, 2025 17:25Updated: JULY 18, 2025 17:57
Palestinian Bedouins accused Israeli settlers on Friday of killing 117 sheep in an overnight attack and stealing hundreds of others in an apparent effort to chase farmers off their land in the West Bank.
The incident comes amid what the United Nations described this week as intensifying attacks by Jews in the West Bank and security forces against Palestinians in the West Bank and record mass displacements.
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Haaretz Report: Lynch Mobs, Arson, and Slaughtered Animals Mark Unprecedented Israeli Settler Violence Across the West Bank
By Ethan FowlerOctober 25, 20256 min readShare Article
A new investigative report from Haaretz exposes a shocking escalation of settler and military-backed violence across the occupied West Bank — a campaign marked by organized lynch mobs, arson attacks, and the slaughtering of Palestinian livestock, described by local witnesses as “terror under the guise of security.”
The report, titled “Lynch Mobs, Arson, Slaughtered Animals: The West Bank Faces Unprecedented Israeli Violence,” catalogs a wave of brutality unleashed by armed settler militias over the past months, often operating with protection or open collaboration from Israeli soldiers. The evidence paints a grim picture of systemic state-sanctioned aggression and near-total impunity for the perpetrators.
A Campaign of Terror Across the Hills
According to eyewitnesses cited by Haaretz, coordinated settler groups have attacked dozens of Palestinian villages, burning homes, destroying crops, and setting herds ablaze. Livestock — a lifeline for many rural families — has been massacred in acts of intimidation designed to drive Palestinians from their land.
Residents recounted scenes of coordinated terror. “They came after midnight with rifles and masks,” one witness said. “They torched the fields, shot the sheep, and beat anyone who tried to stop them.”
In the occupied West Bank, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, appealed on Thursday to Israeli authorities to help Palestinian families trapped in their homes by settlers for days, amid an intensifying campaign to seize their land.
Key points
The West Bank has been under Israeli occupation since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war
Israeli settlements began expanding in the occupied West Bank soon after 1967
In 2005, Israel evacuated four settlements in the northern West Bank
The occupied territory is central to plans for a future Palestinian state, but violent settlement expansion is a growing obstacle to a negotiated two-State solution
According to reports, the United States has been involved in efforts to end the siege that began on Sunday, with the US Ambassador to Israel calling for the removal of what he called “Israeli terrorists”.
Three Palestinian families – around 15 people in total, including at least two children – have remained confined to their homes “in a state of terror” in the Ras al Ein area of Qusra village, south of Nablus, OHCHR said, alleging that the settlers had cut their power and water.
“These criminal actions by the settlers, supported or acquiesced to by Israel, the Occupying Power, are making life unbearable for these Palestinian families and are clearly aimed at forcing them to leave their homes and their land,” the UN office said. “Time is running out for these three families before they are forcibly displaced”.
Nowhere to go
Following the initial OHCHR statement, head of the UN office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Ajith Sunghay, told UN News that the families had been subsequently moved into just one home, which remains surrounded by Israeli settlers.
“Again, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is either unable or unwilling to protect Palestinian communities, which they are expected to do so under the Geneva Convention; or worse, that the IDF is in collusion with the Israeli settlers, all aimed at displacing Palestinians and occupying their lands,” Mr. Sunghay said.
UK summons Israeli diplomat over new illegal settlement units in occupied West Bank
‘The impact of settler violence and terrorism has been catastrophic for Palestinian communities,’ says Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband
Diyar Güldoğan
20 August 2026•Update: 20 August 2026
WASHINGTON DC
UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said Wednesday that Britain summoned Israel’s Chargé d’Affaires after the Israeli government launched a tender for a major settlement project in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank, calling the move “unacceptable and destructive.”
“E1 would cut across the heart of Palestine and risks separating the West Bank from East Jerusalem, which would endanger the viability of a two-state solution.
“The UK has been clear privately and publicly in our opposition to E1 and our support for a two-state solution as the only way to ensure long-term security and peace for both Palestinians and Israelis. All settlements damage that prospect and are a flagrant breach of international law,” Miliband said in a statement.
The Israeli government broke a commitment over the controversial E1 illegal settlement project in occupied East Jerusalem by issuing a tender for 1,234 illegal settlement units without notifying petitioners who had challenged the project in court.
Miliband said he raised the issue directly with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and demanded that Israel immediately halt its plans, withdraw the tender and stop settlement expansion.
“In addition, the Israeli Chargé d’Affaires has been summoned to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, where we set out the UK’s profound objection to this move by the Netanyahu government and demanded an immediate reversal,” he added.
He warned that settlement expansion and violence by Israeli occupiers were worsening conditions for Palestinians and creating divisions that could become difficult to reverse.
“The impact of settler violence and terrorism has been catastrophic for Palestinian communities. Settlement expansion and attempts to create irreversible divisions on the ground threaten peace, security and the prospects for a viable Palestinian state,” he said, stressing that Britain will not stand back and accept the destruction of the two-state solution.
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