{"id":310831,"date":"2025-12-29T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=310831"},"modified":"2025-12-27T06:54:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:54:36","slug":"how-israels-hilltop-settlers-coordinate-attacks-to-expel-palestinians-from-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/12\/how-israels-hilltop-settlers-coordinate-attacks-to-expel-palestinians-from-west-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"How Israel\u2019s Hilltop Settlers Coordinate Attacks to Expel Palestinians from West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Palestinians assess a damaged site after Israeli settlers attacked their village of Deir Dibwan, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, 15 Dec 2025.
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This year was one of the most violent on record for Israeli civilian attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank, according to U.N. data.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

25 Dec 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0The Jewish settler outpost of Or Meir is small. A handful of prefabricated white shelters, it sits at the end of a short dirt track on a hill leading up from Road 60, a major route that dissects the Israeli-occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n

Over time, similar modest dwellings have turned into sprawling Israeli housing developments, part of a plan that members of Israel’s cabinet acknowledge they have implemented to prevent the birth of a Palestinian state.<\/div>\n
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The process can be violent. A Bedouin family told Reuters attackers who descended from Or Meir hurling Molotov cocktails drove them off Palestinian-owned land nearby last year. They fear they won’t ever be able to return.<\/div>\n
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Messages posted on Or Meir’s channel on the Telegram social media platform celebrate chasing out Bedouin herders and show the new settlers\u2019 determination to secure lasting control over what they call \u201cstrategic\u201d territory.<\/div>\n
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This year \u200bwas one of the most violent on record for Israeli civilian attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank, according to United Nations data that shows more than 750 injuries and the rapid spread of outposts throughout land Palestinians hope will form the heart of a future state.<\/div>\n
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Israeli NGO Peace Now has recorded 80 outposts built in 2025, the most since the organization started its records in 1991. On December 21, Israel’s cabinet approved 19 more settlements, including former outposts. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the goal was to block Palestinian statehood.<\/div>\n
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For decades, groups of settlers have built outposts on West Bank land without official authorisation from the Israeli state. Israeli authorities in the West Bank sometimes demolish such camps but they often reappear, and in many cases end up being accepted by Israel as formal settlements. Smotrich has pushed efforts to formalise more outposts.<\/div>\n
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How Israeli settlers focus settlement plans on key West Bank routes<\/h3>\n

Israeli settlers often seek to focus their settlement activity along major routes in the Israeli-occuped West Bank. This map shows how the Israeli outpost of Or Meir on Road 60 and the settlement Evyatar on Road 505 followed that strategy.<\/p>\n

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