06.04.2025 · 5 min reading time
Data set for 05.06.2025 to 06.04.2025
| Category | Total | 5-day avg | 90-day avg | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Settler attacks | 272 | 9.20 | 9.07 | |
| Road closures | 194 | 6.00 | 6.47 | |
| Arrests | 689 | 19.00 | 22.97 | |
| Destruction of property | 94 | 0.60 | 3.13 | |
| Temporary checkpoints | 363 | 13.00 | 12.10 | |
| Invasions | 1322 | 38.80 | 44.07 | |
This data set runs from 05.06.2025 to 06.04.2025, with the 90 day demarcation being 03.07.2025 and the 5 day mark being set at 05.31.2025.
This data set represents the small subsection of Israeli settler-colonial violence that is documented and reported. These figures only include information from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and do not account for the colonial violence enacted upon Palestinians who live within the territories occupied since 1948.
By Lara Kilani
lara@goodshepherdcollective.org
Dear friends,
Over the last week Israel bypassed the UN and seized sole control of aid deliveries to Gaza. The new scheme funnels the besieged population toward four fenced distribution points in the extreme south of the Gaza Strip, guarded by drones, Israeli forces, and 300 heavily armed U.S. contractors from the hastily formed "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation". After three months of total blockade on food, clean water, and medical supplies, two million Palestinians face famine and starvation. Yet approaching the gates is lethal, too: Israeli forces have already opened fire multiple times, killing more than 100 people, including 49 on Sunday and 27 two days later. More than 600 people have been wounded or killed at these distribution points over the last week; others were abducted or disappeared in the chaos. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini has called the sites "death traps". By rationing relief to a trickle and converting its handout into a kill-zone, Israel is weaponising hunger to empty Gaza, surveilling, culling, and preparing survivors for forced removal to "third countries". Over almost 20 months, starvation has been made into an instrument of calculated demographic erasure and domination.
The same colonial violence continues across the West Bank. Here is just a summary of one day in the West Bank:
On June 1, 2025 Israel conducted a West-Bank-wide operation that combined an already 20-month-old blanket closure with waves of night raids, rolling checkpoints, and coordinated settler violence. The closure, first imposed at midnight on October 7, 2023, still blocks almost all movement into East Jerusalem and Israel, throttling commerce, worship, and medical referrals; only diplomats and pre-cleared humanitarian cases may cross.
Military activity spiked across every governorate. Twenty separate incursions struck Jenin, Tulkarm, Ramallah-area villages, Nablus’s Ayn Bayt al-Ma camp, Salfit’s Deir Balut, Bethlehem’s Beit Sahur, and several Hebron towns. Israeli forces used live fire, rubber-coated rounds and tear-gas in Barqa, Jenin camp and Tulkarm camp, wounding Hadi Husayn Belqawi and endangering scores of residents. Nine men were arrested in Dura; further detentions followed a surprise roadblock at Balaa (Tulkarm) and a late-night raid in Jericho.
Israel’s ad-hoc military checkpoints multiplied across the West Bank—from Nabi Saleh, Ayn Sinya and Naalin in Ramallah to Jit and Nabi Elias in Qalqilya, Tayasir in Tubas, and the Nashash junction at Bethlehem—paralyzing traffic for hours. The Jabara Bridge, Jaba and al-Mahkama barriers restricted whole districts under intensive ID checks.
Settler violence escalated in parallel. Police-escorted settler extremists stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque at dawn. Armed settlers grazed livestock on wheat fields outside Bardala, beat brothers Ghassan and Imad Jabir near Barqa, stole an agricultural tractor on the Salfit–Yasuf road and even drove into Jericho before retreating when confronted by Palestinian security guards.
During a Beit Ummar house invasion, Israeli forces confiscated cash, jewelery and CCTV records; in Jenin and Tulkarm camps bulldozers damaged dozens of homes and shops, deepening housing insecurity. The day’s pattern—closures, checkpoints, raids, arrests, use of live fire against Palestinians and settler aggression—shows a systematic strategy to tighten territorial control, sap economic life and pave the ground for further settlement expansion across the occupied West Bank.
Nablus Governorate
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Until liberation and return,
Lara
