Illegal settlers install gate in Jerusalem as demolitions, shootings, raids, and attacks escalate across West Bank, injuring Palestinians and restricting movement.
Key Developments
- Illegal settlers install a gate in Jerusalem as demolitions and restrictions intensify across the West Bank.
- Israeli occupation forces carry out raids, shootings, and demolitions, injuring Palestinians and detaining residents.
- Illegal settler attacks escalate across Nablus and Jerusalem, targeting communities under Israeli occupation forces’ protection.
Israeli violations across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem intensified on Monday, with a series of incidents involving illegal settlers and Israeli occupation forces reported in multiple areas.
Developments ranged from new restrictions imposed in Jerusalem’s Old City to demolitions, shootings, and raids across the occupied West Bank, alongside repeated attacks by illegal settlers targeting Palestinian communities.
Gates Are Back
Illegal Israeli settlers installed an iron gate on Monday between the Cotton Merchants’ Market and the Iron Gate in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, raising fears over new restrictions imposed on Palestinians.
The Jerusalem Governorate said the gate was erected near the Old City Youth Association, adjacent to the Zorba Courtyard, a site previously seized by settlers, describing the move as an attempt to alter the area’s historical character.
The installation has restricted the movement of residents, while settlers performed religious rituals in the area. Residents appealed to Israeli police to remove the gate, but authorities denied responsibility and took no action.
Demolitions in Tulkarm
Israeli occupation forces demolished a Palestinian house and a commercial structure in the village of Shufa, southeast of Tulkarm, on Monday, citing a lack of construction permits.
Local sources reported that Israeli bulldozers, accompanied by armored vehicles and infantry units, stormed the village, cordoned off the area, and carried out the demolitions.
The destroyed structures included a commercial facility used as a garage and spare parts shop owned by Yasser Al-Shoufany, a two-story house belonging to Anas Hamed, and the foundation of a 300-square-meter residential building.
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Workers Attacked
In a separate incident near occupied Jerusalem, two Palestinian workers were injured after Israeli forces opened fire on them as they attempted to cross the separation wall in the Wadi al-Hummus area.
The Jerusalem Governorate said three additional workers were detained, while the identities and medical conditions of the injured remain unknown.
Raids Across Nablus, Ramallah
Violence by Israeli settlers was reported across multiple locations south and east of Nablus, leaving at least two Palestinians injured.
Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of raids across several villages in the northern West Bank, targeting areas in Nablus and Ramallah governorates.
Incursions were reported in Burqa, Duma, Qabalan, and Awarta, where soldiers detained residents and ransacked commercial shops.
In the Ramallah area, Israeli forces raided al-Mughayyir and established military checkpoints along the Yabrud-Silwad road, disrupting movement.
Meanwhile, in Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, Israeli forces seized six vehicles after storming the village, closing its main entrance, and obstructing traffic.
Villages northeast of Ramallah continue to face repeated raids, checkpoints, and movement restrictions.
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Khan al-Ahmar Targeted
Israeli settlers, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, stormed the village of Khan al-Ahmar east of occupied Jerusalem.
Local sources said settlers attempted to provoke and assault residents. The village, along with other Bedouin communities in the area, faces repeated incursions linked to settlement expansion efforts.
Students Attacked
Several students suffered suffocation after Israeli forces fired tear gas and stun grenades near a school in Umm al-Khair, in Masafer Yatta south of Hebron.
Local activists said the incident followed the blocking of the main road to the school by settlers, preventing access for students and residents.
"Israel wants to live in peace with its neighbours" is the biggest lie of all time.
This is the West Bank.
No Hamas, no war, yet attacked like this daily by "settlers" backed by the IDF.
A savagely violent Jewish supremacy armed by the EU/UK/US
— Daniel Lambert (@dlLambo) April 3, 2026
West Bank Violence
Since the start of the Gaza genocide on 7 October 2023, violence in the occupied West Bank has surged sharply. OCHA recorded 1,001 Palestinians killed, including 213 children, between October 2023 and October 2025, with dozens more killed in 2026, pushing the total well beyond one thousand.
The same data shows that over 5,600 Palestinians have been displaced, including entire communities, amid escalating Israeli operations and illegal settler violence.
The detention campaign has expanded in parallel. Palestinian prisoner institutions report around 21,000 arrests since October 2023, including children and women, while more than 9,600 Palestinians remain in Israeli prisons, including thousands held under administrative detention without charge or trial.
OHCHR has also documented at least 90 deaths in Israeli custody during this period.
(PC, WAFA, QNN, Palestinian Media)
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