Overview
- The UN human rights office says documented patterns point to coordinated actions and policies that indicate mass expulsions, raising fears of ethnic cleansing.
- The office warns that the unlawful transfer of protected persons would constitute a war crime under international law.
- Investigators recorded 1,732 incidents of settler violence in the 12 months to October 2025, up from 1,400 in the previous year.
- October 2025 saw 42 settler attacks that injured 131 Palestinians during the olive harvest, the highest monthly total since 2006.
- Israeli authorities approved nearly 37,000 new homes in occupied East Jerusalem plus about 27,200 elsewhere in the West Bank, while officials allegedly enabled and participated in settler violence.