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Violence, destruction and access restrictions during the olive harvest
Olive trees and the olive harvest occupy a central place in Palestinian life and tradition in the West Bank. Olive groves cover much of the West Bank’s farmland, and, according to UN figures, the olive harvest is the sole or main source of income for 80,000 to 100,000 families. For years, the harvest season has been a flashpoint for settler violence against Palestinians. The 2025 harvest season was particularly difficult. During the harvest months of October and November 2025
Incarceration conditions and violence against Palestinian children
In 2025, Palestinian children under the age of 18 held in the Israeli detention and incarceration systems continued to suffer from increasingly severe harm. On any given month, an average of about 350 Palestinian children are held in Israeli incarceration facilities, about half of them in administrative detention, without charge or trial, with the youngest administrative detainee being a 14-year-old child. Israeli military law, which governs the detention and incarceration of
Roadblocks and restrictions on freedom of movement
Freedom of movement is a basic right and an essential element of human liberty in its most fundamental sense. Restrictions on freedom of movement directly impinge on other human rights as they impede access to healthcare and education facilities, workplaces, farmland, places to buy food, and more. For the millions of Palestinians living in the West Bank, freedom of movement within the West Bank has been restricted to varying degrees since the early days of the occupation. Sin
Disappearances
In the absence of a proper system for registering arrests, and as the number of Palestinian detainees held by Israeli security forces grows, in 2026 many Palestinian families from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip remain without basic information as to the whereabouts of arrested family members, adults and children alike. In October 2023, in a breach of its obligations under international law, Israel stopped providing the ICRC with information on detainees and banned it from v
Denial of visits
Denial of family visits The incarceration emergency declared in October 2023 is anchored in a temporary order that has since been repeatedly extended. The order serves as the source for the sweeping denial of family visits to security inmates in Israeli prisons. When the declaration was issued, provisions were made for periodic reviews and amendments in accordance with security and other developments. Since then, more than two and a half years after the outbreak of the war, a
Economic crisis and impaired services
The West Bank is in the grip of a severe economic crisis, with the situation continuing to spiral due to Israeli policies: Israel’s refusal to release billions of dollars of tax and duty revenues belonging to the Palestinian Authority, the continued ban on the entry of tens of thousands of Palestinians who previously worked in Israel, and harsh travel restrictions that prevent or delay access to workplaces and agricultural land and thereby reduce output. According to Internat
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