A school in the occupied West Bank has been surrounded by barbed-wire fencing as Palestinian parents fear for their children’s safety due to the rise of Israeli settler attacks in the area. The isolated village of al-Mughayyir, north-east of Ramallah, has been increasingly surrounded by Jewish settler outposts, and regularly blocked by Israeli forces who
“I came because it makes the children feel their parents are with them, that they are safe, it gives them a kind of security,” said Haroon Bishara, whose boys are in the first and second grades. “We fear for our children more this year,” he told me. “We know the situation is not safe at
At least 81 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the West Bank since the start of the year, according to the UN’s figures. At least 23 of those deaths have occurred in the context of settler attacks. Three Israelis, both security forces and civilians, have been killed by Palestinians in the
Violence by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank is set to reach record levels this year, as human rights groups warn that they are increasingly spreading into new areas of the territory. Attacks on Palestinians have risen under Israel’s current government, alongside a rapid increase in Israeli settlements, illegal under international law. Many of
Israeli prosecutors have charged a settler over the killing of a Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank who helped film Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. Yinon Levy was charged with reckless manslaughter over the July 2025 shooting of Odeh Hathaleen, according to Israel’s Southern District Prosecutor’s Office. Israeli rights group B’Tselem said it was
