Updates & Analysis

Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, mostly Bedouin communities, have experienced a nearly 300% increase in demolitions.

In 2024, the number of demolitions reached 1,766 structures, almost double the number from 2023 and four times the total in 2020. At least 4,275 people were displaced in 2024 alone — only in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Knesset Member Smotrich looks to increase demolitions dramatically in 2025.

The offensive follows months of escalating military activity in the West Bank. In Tulkarm, intensified attacks over the past eight days have displaced families, restricted access to food, medicine, and other essential services, and damaged key medical facilities.The assault has destroyed some 120 buildings and displaced 15,000 people so far.

To see Palestinians returning to northern Gaza — and, meanwhile, Lebanese people returning to their villages in southern Lebanon as well — is truly a sight for sore eyes.

Even before the announcement of the so-called ceasefire agreement, Israeli forces and settlers intensified violence and restrictions in the occupied West Bank: Between January 7 and 13, Israeli forces killed six Palestinians, including three children, and injured 38 others. Airstrikes in the Jenin refugee camp on January 14th and 15th killed 12 Palestinians, including a child.

In the shadow of destruction, Palestinians are showing us what radical hope looks like—but hope alone is not justice. Justice cannot come through tentative pauses or rhetorical gestures; it demands an end to the root cause of their suffering: the relentless machinery of zionist settler colonialism.

Under Israeli rule, genocide and death are not going anywhere. Even if Israel’s bombardment stopped right now, the destruction the state and its forces have carried out across all forms of life-sustaining infrastructure in Gaza is enough to sustain a serious toll of death and injury.

Demolitions have almost doubled since 2023 and have quadrupled from 2020. From January 1, 2024, Israel has carried out 549 military operations across East Jerusalem and the West Bank alone, destroying 1,766 structures and displacing 4,275 people from their homes and lands.