Radical settler groups have publicly claimed responsibility for a surge of coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank, listing dozens of incidents carried out over the past month in Palestinian communities. The claims, circulated online, present the violence as a campaign aimed at driving residents from their land, with villages spread across the territory reporting arson, property damage and physical injuries.

According to the details shared by the groups themselves, homes and vehicles were set alight, olive groves were destroyed and residents were injured in repeated raids. Several incidents were reported in communities near Ramallah, where intimidation has intensified in recent weeks. In one village close to the city, sustained pressure and attacks were followed by the departure of a neighbouring Bedouin community, while a young Palestinian later died after being shot during one of the incidents.

Human rights monitors say such violence is closely tied to the steady expansion of settlements, which continue to advance onto privately owned agricultural land. Access restrictions, harassment and repeated attacks have created conditions that make daily life untenable, pushing families to leave. These practices, critics argue, function as tools of forced displacement carried out with the backing or acquiescence of authorities on the ground.

More than half a million settlers now live in the West Bank, excluding East Jerusalem, among several million Palestinians. Settlement growth has accelerated sharply, even as the wider region remains gripped by a genocidal war that has deepened instability and eroded civilian protections. Observers warn that the normalisation of settler violence risks entrenching permanent demographic change across large parts of the territory.