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Palestinian fatalities and injuries in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem The number of Palestinian civilians, including women and children, killed or injured by Israeli armed forces in the West Bank has been steadily rising in recent years. Key reasons for this alarming trend are: Relaxation of the open-fire regulations and the adoption of combat practices used during the fighting in Gaza, which increase the risk of harm to civilians. An increase in the rate and intensi

About one-third of East Jerusalem’s Palestinian residents, more than 100,000 people, currently live on the other side of the Separation Barrier and permanent checkpoints. As noted in the report on the 58th year of occupation, immediately following October 7, 2023 all peripheral checkpoints surrounding East Jerusalem were closed, abruptly cutting off Palestinian residents living beyond the barrier from their urban hub. The placement of temporary checkpoints and roadblocks betw

Incarceration conditions in both military and IPS facilities continue to be extremely harsh and, as noted, have resulted in deaths. The entire security inmate population of prisoners, detainees, administrative detainees and detainees under the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law, adults, and minors, including those incarcerated before October 2023, lives in conditions that had already been deliberately and significantly worsened before October 7, 2023, and even more so s

Through 2025, and even more so since the beginning of 2026, violent attacks carried out by Israeli civilians, most of whom are residents of settlements and outposts, against Palestinians and Palestinian property in the West Bank (settler violence) have grown in number and severity. From early 2026 until mid-May, the UN documented over 800 violent settler attacks that resulted in injuries or property damage in more than 220 Palestinian communities. Settler violence is backed b

As noted in the previous State of the Occupation report, in November 2024, the Knesset enacted the Deportation of Families of Terrorists Law, 5785-2024 (Hebrew), which empowers the Minister of the Interior to deport Israeli citizens or residents who are first-degree relatives of individuals accused of terrorism for several years, under certain conditions set out in the law. This law is unique to Israel, and is an infringement on the universal right to residency and citizenshi

According to Gaza Ministry of Health figures, from October 2023 through the end of December 2025, at least 10,983 women were killed in Gaza as a result of Israeli attacks. Thousands of women and girls are living with life altering injuries, i.e injuries that preclude a full recovery and a return to pre injury life. Tens of thousands more women have been widowed or have lost children, parents, or other relatives. Around 90% of all residents of the Strip have fled their homes a

Advancing legislation to restrict human rights organizations’ operations The government has been promoting The Associations Bill (Amendment – Donation from Foreign State Entity) - 2024 since February 2025. In its original version, the bill sought to tax donations received by Israeli nonprofit organizations from foreign governments or official state institutions at a rate of 80% and to divest the courts of jurisdiction to hear petitions filed by organizations whose primary fun

As noted in the State of the Occupation report for the 58th year of occupation, violence, abuse and humiliation have become a fixed, inseparable part of daily life for security inmates. Information collected and testimonies taken by human rights organizations published in reports and in investigative journalism, depict a horrifying reality in which inmates, including children, older adults, medical patients, and people with disabilities, are subjected to threats and violence

After causing the massive destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system during the war, Israel’s current policy continues to violate the rights of Gaza’s residents to life and to health by imposing restrictions on the entry of medicines and medical equipment needed in the Strip. This forces residents to live in conditions that increase morbidity, and limits the options available to seriously ill and wounded patients to travel for treatment outside of Gaza. Gaza’s healthcare system

The West Bank is dotted with Palestinian shepherding communities subsisting on herding and agriculture. Most of these communities were driven out of the Negev desert upon Israel’s establishment, and have lived at their current sites in the West Bank for decades. Over the past decade, and with growing intensity since October 2023, families and entire communities have been forced out through settler violence that is systemic and ongoing, together with the lack of protection fro