"The UN Human Rights office for Palestine has warned that Israel is rapidly accelerating its campaign to annex the occupied West Bank, with settlers adding outposts at a pace 10 times higher than the previous average rate just in the past year. Recent settler attacks on the olive harvest have underscored the danger faced by Palestinian communities, the office noted, with this season alone seeing 150 settler attacks so far."
"This includes an attack caught on camera by a journalist last week, when a 53-year-old woman was beaten by settlers and sent to the hospital during the olive harvest; as well as an attack on a 58-year-old olive farmer in Nahalin, west of Bethlehem, on Thursday, the office said. These attacks represent just a fraction of the settler violence faced by Palestinians as Israel escalates its annexation campaign amid its genocide in Gaza, the office said."
"UN officials, citing Israeli group Peace Now, said that there have been 757 settler attacks in the West Bank just in the first half of 2025, marking a 13 percent increase over the previous year. Meanwhile, Israeli settlers have created 84 new illegal outposts in the West Bank, marking a "rapid escalation" of the previous pace of eight new settlements per year on average, the office said."
UN Human Rights Office for Palestine warned that Israel is rapidly accelerating its campaign to annex the occupied West Bank, with settlers adding outposts at a pace ten times higher than the previous average over the past year. Settler attacks on the olive harvest have intensified, with 150 attacks this season and 757 attacks in the West Bank in the first half of 2025, a 13 percent increase from the previous year. Israeli settlers created 84 new illegal outposts, marking a rapid escalation from an average of eight per year. Violent incidents include a 53-year-old woman beaten during harvest and a 58-year-old farmer attacked in Nahalin. The violence is making life impossible for many Palestinians and forcing displacement amid broader military actions in Gaza, while the Trump administration insisted it would not allow formal annexation.
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