1/ "This year is the worst". That is what Ibrahim Shabana, a resident of the village of Sinjil, told journalist Daniel Dolev as he stood on his roof, gazing at his family's olive groves—land he can no longer access. >> 2/ The article, published yesterday (Dec 29, 2025) by “Shomrim”, describes the current phase of the expulsion and violence campaign waged by the State of Israel against the Palestinian population in the West Bank. >>shomrim.news/hebrew/settler…

Lately, we’ve been documenting the South Hebron Hills, but a wave of ominous developments has been unfolding in the Jordan Valley — especially its northern section, between al-Jiftlik and the northern edge of the West Bank. Our next posts will focus on what is happening there.🧵 1/ In recent months, the Apartheid General, Avi Bluth, has signed dozens of new military seizure orders. Most of these orders are meant to open new roads or “legalize” older ones that settlers had previously carved out illegally. >>

A 100-dunam plot cultivated for generations by Palestinians from Tarqumiya was taken over last month by settlers, backed by police and the army. Another chapter in what’s unfolding in the Hebron Hills. Thread. 1/ About a month ago, several vehicles showed up, along with a massive bulldozer bearing the name “Michael Pinhas Levy,” at a plot of land right off Route 35, the road that climbs from the Tarqumiya checkpoint toward Hebron. >>

How apartheid works: The CA razed this week a few caravans in a violent outpost, triggering a clash between the settler establishment and the young militias. A fight over the loot & palestinians absorbed the violence. 2 days later the Godfather set up a new outpost in Shdema.🧵 1/ The past few days have offered a rare glimpse into how Israel’s apartheid regime truly works.
On Monday morning, the Civil Administration demolished several structures in an especially violent outpost north of the isolated and extremist settlement of Asfar. >>

We usually write here about things that have already happened. Today, we’re writing about something that according to reliable sources, settlers are planning to do. Another post in our ongoing series on what’s happening in the South Hebron Hills. >> 1/ On January 13, 1981, the Israeli military commander of the West Bank signed Seizure Order No. 29/81, under which roughly 70 dunams of land were “temporarily” confiscated for so-called “security needs.” >>

Evil must be called out — and to call it out, one must name it. Another post in our ongoing series about what’s happening in the South Hebron Hills. Thread. 1/ A few days ago, Ariel Schwartz posted of Facebook a short post that received wide attention and shares. In his post, Schwartz recounts a conversation with a hitchhiker he picked up — a settler from a community in what he called “East Gush Etzion.” >>
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1/ We’ve been documenting and reporting on the actions of Israel’s apartheid regime in the West Bank for over twenty years. The situation there has always been unbearable — but what we’ve witnessed in the two years since October 7th is beyond anything we ever imagined we’d see.>> 2/ In these two years, not a single day has passed without an attack or pogrom carried out by one or more settler militias, accompanied by soldiers, against a Palestinian community somewhere in the West Bank. >>

The settlement of Beit Hagai, south of Hebron, is a clear illustration of how the settlement enterprise operates. A few hundred settlers living amid hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Another post in our ongoing series on the South Hebron Hills. Thread. 1/ In September 2021, we published a detailed post about the settlement of Beit Hagai, explaining how Israel officially confiscated the lands allocated to the settlement — and how the settlers continued the looting, taking over vast areas around it. >>

Israeli hostages are home, Trump’s back in Washington — and we’re left with the far-right and the settlers. We return to the South Hebron Hills, where the illegal outpost Havat Otniel has been rebranded as the “new settlement of Afeka”. Thread. 1/ At the end of May, it was revealed that Israel’s criminal and corrupt government had secretly approved the establishment of 22 new settlements. >>

We are Back in the Hebron Hills - Wadi Sa‘ir. Over many of the last 25 years, Road 356 has been blocked and turned into a settlers-only road. Since 7/10, several Sa‘ir shepherding communities have been expelled, and settlers keep burning and cutting down olive groves. Thread. 1/ Wadi Sa‘ir road connects the village of Sa‘ir to its northern farmland and to the rural area of the Ta‘amra southeast of Bethlehem. >>

The new vineyard planted on land of Palestinians from as-Samu‘ is watered by a pipeline coming from the settlement of Shani. There isn't any “formal” seizure order — settlers just invaded 60 dunsms with full impunity. Part 4 in our South Hebron Hills series. Thread. 1/ The new vineyard, visible to anyone driving along Route 3718 in the South Hebron Hills toward the “Shani checkpoint,” tells the story of the time. But before the vineyard, a reminder. >>

After Oct 7, settlers from Adora, backed by the army, expelled Khirbet a-Taybah’s residents. Homes looted & burned, lands sealed. On the ruins, a new outpost now stands — marked by brown signs as an “archaeological site”. Part three in our series on the South Hebron Hills. Thread 1/ Drivers on Route 35, heading from the Green Line up toward Hebron, pass on the right the settlement of Adora. About a kilometer after its entrance, a narrow and clearly substandard road veers off. >>

Since the 1980s, Israel seized tens of thousands of dunams from the Palestinians of ad-Dhahiriya. Now settlers are grabbing another 460 dunams — right across from the Mt Hebron Regional Council — land farmed by Palestinians until Oct 7. Part two on Hebron Hills. Thread. 1/ In the early 1980s, Israel began looting hundreds of thousands of dunams across the West Bank through declarations of “State Land.” >>

Since summer 2023, settlers have expelled 6 Palestinian shepherding communities south of as-Samu‘ and seized 1000s of dunams. Now they’ve built a new outpost next to a road linking the last 2 surviving hamlets, another step toward making the area “clean” of Palestinians. Thread. 1/ In the past two years, settlers have succeeded in expelling six shepherding communities and hamlets south of as-Samu‘: Maktal Msallam, Widadi (two hamlets), Khirbet ar-Radheem (two hamlets), and Atiriya. >>

1/ The West Bank has been undergoing rapid transformations in the two and a half years since Netanyahu’s current criminal government came to power. >> 2/ Dozens of Palestinian communities have been expelled from their homes, and hundreds of thousands of dunams have been effectively sealed off to Palestinians. >>

This week, Israel declared hundreds of dunams belonging to three Palestinian villages west of Nablus as “State Land.” The goal: to legalize the violent outposts of Havat Gilad and Havat Yetedot and to enable their expansion in the future. Thread. 1/ On Monday this week (September 1, 2025), Mr. Yossi Segal, who holds the title of “Custodian of Abandoned and Government Property in Judea and Samaria” issued a certificate. >>

Thousands of olive trees were uprooted in al-Mughayyir following a military order issued by Apartheid General, Bluth: 300 dunams were cited, but 620 were destroyed. Meanwhile, settlers carve new roads for more land grabs — all under army protection. Thread. >> 1/ A few days ago, we published a post describing the “shaping operations” of Apartheid General Bluth, east of the village of al-Mughayyir, during which thousands of olive trees belonging to the village’s residents were savagely uprooted. >>

Last week, General Avi Bluth ordered that 1000's of olive trees in al-Mughayyir be uprooted, although collective punishment is outlawed under intl law. Settlers have already illegally seized thousands of dunams in this area; now the army is helping them to grab more. Thread. 1/ The Israeli media reported that a Palestinian from the village of al-Mughayyir fired his handgun at a settler, wounding him lightly. In response, the Apartheid General Avi Bluth, issued a military order titled “Order Regarding the Taking of Security Measures No. 25/25.” >>

Last summer we reported on the repeated arsons that ravaged the agricultural enclave of the Palestinian village of Husan, swallowed by the massive ultra-Orthodox settlement of Beitar Illit. That story is part of a wider pattern - settlers’ arsons across the West Bank. Thread. 1/ In recent years, settlers have set hundreds of fires. At first, the targets were cars, shops, agricultural structures, equipment, and sometimes mosques. >>

1/ "You understand me. You understand me very well. You — not be here. Go. Yalla, ta‘al. Take your things and leave. Listen to me and listen well, I’m talking here… You, translate me. OK? Good. >> 2/ You have exactly… now 32. By 35 I want all of you gone. Three minutes. Three minutes on the clock. You can’t be here. I don’t care what you say. Yalla, go”. >>

We’ve long planned to write about events along Route 5, between Za’atara (“Tapuach”) Junction and the violent settlement of Migdalim. The killing of 24 year old Moein Asfar from Aqraba by settlers from a nearby illegal outpost last Saturday makes it urgent. A thread. 1/ Let us begin with some historical and geographical context: Route 5, referred to by settlers as the “Trans-Samaria Highway”, was first paved by Israel in the early 1980s. >>