Dispatch #178White Lesbian Age 73 Considers Israel’s Escalating Campaign of Ethnic Cleansing by Settler Terrorism and Widespread Destruction by Israeli Occupation Force (dba IDF) in Occupied WestBank

November 20^th 2025 Day 304 White Supremacist Misogynist Christian Nationalist Regime 1247 Days Since SCOTUS Ruled American Women Don’t Have Human Rights 775 Days Since Israel Began Genocidal Campaign on Palestinians in Gaza

As the US and Western Allies have given Israel permission and financial support for its genocide campaign in Gaza, Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank have understood that the West Bank will be next.

West Bank resistance dies amid fears of becoming Israel’s ‘next Gaza’. | The Guardian │24 October 2025.

To the residents of the West Bank, the war in Gaza was a warning. As they watched bombs destroy 88% of the Gaza Strip over the last two years, they realized there was no limit to what Israel would do to crush Palestinian militants. Now the war in Gaza is drawing down, Palestinians fear Israel will turn its focus on the West Bank. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/24/west-bank-residents-fear-they-may-be-israels-next-target-after-gaza 

On 25 November 2025, B’Tselem -- The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories -- posted this report on Settler Violence on the West Bank: Settler Violence = State Violence. The Israeli apartheid regime and its representatives actively aid and abet the settlers’ violence as part of a strategy to cement the takeover of Palestinian land. www.btselem.org/settler_violence

B’Tselem: Settlers unpunished for 21 killings in West Bank ‘ethnic cleansing'. With West Bank death toll since October 2023 topping 1,000, Palestinians say ‘death is inevitable.’  │Middle East Eye│25 November 2025.

Israeli settlers have gone unpunished in 21 cases where they killed Palestinians over the past two years amid what B’Tselem describes as a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” in the occupied West Bank. The human rights group noted that the military has been enforcing “an increasingly permissive and reckless open-fire policy” in the Palestinian territory, including the use of air strikes, since 7 October 2023. The military has also armed “thousands of settlers” while turning a blind eye to their near-daily bloody attacks on Palestinian civilians.  www.middleeasteye.net/news/death-inevitable-over-1000-palestinians-killed-israeli-violence-west-bank 

B’Tselem states this context for their work begun in 1989: The essence of the apartheid regime in place between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is to promote and perpetuate the supremacy of one group over another. B'Tselem works to change this reality, recognizing that this is the only way to realize a future in which human rights, liberty and equality are guaranteed to all human beings living here, Palestinians and Jews alike. www.btselem.org/about_btselem

Hundreds of Israeli soldiers raid Palestinian town in West Bank. Israeli military and security service say ‘broad counter-terrorism operation’ in Tubas to continue for several days. Israel claims Tubas is a haven for terrorists and warns that IOF will destroy Tubas and displace Palestinians like Jenin and Tulkarem. │ The Guardian │ 26 November 2025. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/26/hundreds-israeli-soldiers-raid-palestinian-town-tubas-west-bank 

West Bank: Israel Emptying [West Bank] Refugee Camps a Crime Against Humanity. │ Human Rights Watch │ 23 November 2025.  This HRW Report is extensive and comprehensive regarding the history of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Israel’s decades of international human rights law violations.

Human Rights Watch found that the Israeli military’s displacement of the populations in the West Bank refugee camps in early 2025 were carried out in violation of international humanitarian and human rights law, and amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Israeli military intentionally and purposefully displaced thousands of Palestinians in the refugee camps by means of forced displacement. It forcibly expelled people from their homes using violence and the fear of violence and at times used lethal force. The Israeli army did not provide safe routes out of the camps and just directed people to leave while at the same time apparently deploying snipers and immediately commencing the destruction of homes.

www.juancole.com/2025/11/emptying-refugee-humanity.html 

Israel’s push to displace thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank.  Displacement and Israeli settler violence against Palestinians has surged to record levels in occupied West Bank. │ Al Jazeera │25 November 2025.

In the occupied West Bank, much like in the Gaza Strip, Israeli policy is forcing thousands of Palestinians from their homes, in stark defiance of international law.  A report published last week by Human Rights Watch (HRW) highlighted the expulsion of 32,000 Palestinians from their homes in just three refugee camps this year. HRW said that the Israeli operation in the Jenin, Nur Shams, and Tulkarem refugee camps, which began in January, led to the biggest mass displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967.

“We are witnessing the total abandonment of Palestinian lives. Israel has already shown it is capable of far greater violence, as we are seeing in the Gaza Strip,” Israeli human rights group B’Tselem’s executive director Yuli Novak said on Friday. “The situation in the West Bank is deteriorating by the day and will only worsen, because there is no internal or external mechanism to restrain Israel or stop its ongoing policy of ethnic cleansing. The international community must put an end to Israel’s impunity and hold those responsible for crimes against the Palestinian people to account.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/25/israels-push-to-displace-thousands-from-the-occupied-west-bank 

The fire devoured everything’: Israeli settlers unleash wave of arson attacks. At least five West Bank villages have been targeted as settlers lit Palestinian homes, cars, and a mosque ablaze, while the army delayed emergency vehicles. │Basel Adra│+972 Magazine│18 November 2025.   https://www.972mag.com/settler-arson-attacks-west-bank/ 

They have total impunity’: West Bank settler violence surges after Gaza ceasefire.

UN logs 260 attacks in October alone, its highest monthly tally, as settlers attack farmers and burn olive trees.│The Guardian│18 November 2025.

The revenue from olives in the West Bank is now a fraction of the $130m (£99m) that it was annually before the war, compounding a deep economic crisis. About 110,000 farmers in the West Bank directly profit from the olive harvest with another 50,000 people earning much of their livelihood from working with the trees and produce. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/18/west-bank-surge-settler-violence-israel-palestine 

Why are Israeli settlers destroying the Palestinian olive harvest? Trees are being burned and farmers assaulted in the West Bank amid repeated attacks on a way of life | Middle East Eye│29 October 2025.

Ajith Sunghay, the head of the UN Human Rights Office in Palestine, has warned of the dangers faced by Palestinian farmers in the West Bank during this year’s olive season. Sunghay said on 21 October: “Two weeks into the start of the 2025 harvest, we have already seen severe attacks by armed settlers against Palestinian men, women, children, and foreign solidarity activists.“Settler violence has skyrocketed in scale and frequency, with the acquiescence, support, and in many cases participation, of Israeli security forces – and always with impunity.”

Sunghay also stressed the cultural importance of olive cultivation for Palestinians, representing livelihood, lineage, resilience and economy, and added: “The escalating assault on the olive harvest season is one of many, many Israeli aggressions designed to sever connection, to annex the land, to dispossess Palestinians, and facilitate the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements.” www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/olive-harvest-israeli-settlers-palestine-west- 

Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing And they will escalate – as long as they are allowed by US-led West. │Dan Steinbock│ Informed Consent │15 November 2025.

October 2025 recorded the highest monthly number of Israeli settler attacks since the UN Humanitarian office (OCHA) began documenting such incidents in 2006. That’s more than 260 attacks resulting in casualties, property damage or both – an average of eight incidents per day.

Reminiscent of the Gaza atrocities, one in every five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in 2025 across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is a child. During this olive harvest season, settler violence has reached the highest level recorded in recent years, with the injury of more than 150 Palestinians and the vandalism of over 5,700 trees.

This violence is not a fringe phenomenon. It is deliberate, systematic and escalatory. Shunning all international condemnation, it seeks to establish new “facts on the ground.” It is ethnic cleansing aimed at involuntary population transfer and, unless disrupted, mass atrocities. www.juancole.com/2025/11/squatter-violence-skyrocketing.html 

UN Human Rights Office Warns Israeli Settler Violence in West Bank Is “Surging” | Truthout. │ 27 October 2025.

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. The violence is “making life impossible for Palestinians in many communities across the occupied West Bank and leaving them with no genuine choice but to leave their homes.  These actions advance Israel’s stated policy to consolidate annexation in clear violation of international law,” the office said.  https://truthout.org/articles/un-human-rights-office-warns-israeli-settler-violence-in-west-bank-is-surging/