The organization stated that since October 2023, alongside the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the Israeli military “has been enforcing an increasingly permissive and reckless open-fire policy in the West Bank”.
Israeli occupation forces and illegal Jewish settlers have killed 1,004 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 2023, including 217 minors, the Israeli rights group B’Tselem has said. At least 21 of the killings “were perpetrated by settlers,” it noted.
“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,” said Yuli Novak, B’Tselem executive director.
“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,” Novak stressed.
Israel has killed over 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 2023
>> pic.twitter.com/Kv3qRFVZh1— B’Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (@btselem) November 23, 2025
He emphasized that the “international community must put an end to Israel’s impunity and hold those responsible for crimes against the Palestinian people to account.”
‘Reckless Open-Fire Policy’
The organization stated that since October 2023, alongside the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the Israeli military “has been enforcing an increasingly permissive and reckless open-fire policy in the West Bank, including the use of airstrikes in populated areas.”
Israel’s Silent War: State-Sanctioned Jewish-mob Terror in the West Bank
It highlighted that the military “has also armed and mobilized thousands of settlers into regional defense battalions and rapid-response teams within settlements.”
“Under this blanket impunity, armed settlers attack Palestinians on a daily basis, burning homes, farmland and crops, looting property and killing residents,” B’Tselem said.
No Conviction in Settler Attacks
The rights group stated that although dozens of such attacks occur every day, and many are captured on video and well documented, Israeli law-enforcement authorities “rarely open investigations.”
“In the 21 cases where settlers have killed Palestinians, not a single perpetrator has been convicted,” it stressed.
On Monday 17.11.2025, settlers raided the village of al-Jab’ah. In one of the assaults, a group of masked settlers stoned a car carrying a one-and-a-half-year-old girl, her four-year-old sister, their mother, and their uncle, and set fire to two vehicles parked nearby. In… pic.twitter.com/6IfhTM7in8
— B’Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (@btselem) November 19, 2025
Youths Killed in Raid
On Sunday evening, a young Palestinian man was killed by gunfire from Israeli occupation forces and illegal settlers during an attack on the village of Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Bara’ Khairy Ali Maali, 20, was killed when the soldiers and settlers opened fire on residents who attempted to quell the attack. Maali was shot in the chest, succumbing to his critical wounds after being transferred to the hospital, the report stated.
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On Friday, three Palestinian youth were killed by the occupation forces. Younes Waleed Mohammad Shtayyeh, 24, was killed after the army surrounded a house in the village of Tel, west of Nablus.
The occupation forces fired live ammunition and stun grenades around the house, wounding Shtayyeh, before arresting him, WAFA reported. It cited the Palestinian Red Crescent Society as saying that Israeli soldiers prevented its medical teams from reaching the wounded man, before he was later pronounced dead.
The army is withholding his body, WAFA reported.
Highest Record of Settler Attacks
Early on Friday, Israeli occupation forces also shot and killed two youths during a raid in the town of Kafr Aqab, north of Jerusalem. The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed the killings of Amr Khaled Al-Marboua, 18, and Sami Ibrahim Mashaikha, 16.
WAFA reported that Israeli forces “had stormed the town, deployed infantry units in its streets, and positioned snipers on the rooftops of several buildings before opening fire at young men in the area, leading to the killing of Al-Marboua and Mashaikha.”
Masked and armed settlers have increased their attacks against Palestinian communities in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank. The Norwegian Refugee Council says Israel wants to erase 18 Palestinian communities living there.
On Saturday, settlers attacked Palestinian farmers… pic.twitter.com/xEE9KPhdVX
— AJ+ (@ajplus) November 24, 2025
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that October 2025 recorded the highest monthly number of illegal Israeli settler attacks since the office began documenting such incidents in 2006, with more than 260 attacks resulting in casualties, property damage or both. This amounted to an average of eight incidents per day, it said.
(PC, WAFA)
