RAMALLAH, March 13, 2026 (WAFA) – The head of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, Minister Muayyad Shabaan, said that colonists carried out a total of 192 attacks during the last two weeks of the ongoing Israel-Iran-US War, resulting in the killing of six Palestinians.
The Minister, in a special report issued by the Commission, stated that colonists have exploited the current regional instability to escalate attacks on Palestinian villages and communities, capitalizing on the international and regional focus on the broader Iran–Israel–U.S. conflict. He described these attacks as organized and systematic, including direct gunfire at civilians, the torching of homes and property, and the imposition of new facts on the ground.
He emphasized that these attacks are part of a broader dynamic, aimed at exploiting the current regional and international preoccupation to accelerate changes to the geographic and demographic reality of the West Bank, at the expense of the Palestinian presence.
He noted that the attacks were largely concentrated in the Hebron Governorate, with 47 recorded, followed by Tubas (42), Nablus (35), Bethlehem (14), and Jerusalem (12), with additional attacks reported in other areas.
Shabaan clarified that this wave of attacks has resulted in the forced displacement of four Palestinian Bedouin communities over the past two weeks, impacting thirty-seven families—191 individuals in total, including 65 women and 106 children.
Shabaan reported that colonists carried out 46 acts of vandalism, including the destruction of property and crops and land leveling, alongside three attacks on religious sites. These attacks included an attempted arson at the Muhammad Fayyad Mosque in Duma, south of Nablus, an assault on the Majdal Bani Fadil Mosque, and continued incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque, denying Palestinian citizens' access to the holy Muslim site.
He noted that over the past two weeks, colonists attempted to establish eight new illegal outposts as part of a broader effort to impose facts on the ground—measures that the official authorities subsequently consolidated into a fait accompli—reflecting a coordinated interplay between the Israeli government and settler militias on the ground.
Shabaan urged the international community, along with human rights and humanitarian organizations, to uphold their legal and moral obligations and halt these violations and safeguard the Palestinian people, their land, and their holy sites.
The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission had warned on February 28 that colonists were exploiting the conditions of the current war, calling on Palestinians to remain vigilant in the face of a renewed surge in settler crimes amid regional tensions, media polarization, and international distraction caused by recent military developments and the ongoing conflict with Iran.
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