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settlers are using gendered violence](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/israeli-soldiers-using-sexual-assault-to-force-palestinians-out-of-west-bank-report-says) and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts have said. Palestinian women
settlers and soldiers [stripped, handcuffed and beat](https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-21/ty-article-magazine/.premium/beatings-burns-attempted-sexual-assault-settlers-and-soldiers-abused-palestinians/0000018b-530f-d1d7-ab8b-7f5fca1d0000https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-21/ty-article-magazine/.premium/beatings-burns-attempted-sexual-assault-settlers-and-soldiers-abused-palestinians/0000018b-530f-d1d7-ab8b-7f5fca1d0000) Palestinians from the village of Wadi as-Seeq, urinated on them, attempted to rape one with a broom handle, and took photographs of them naked
violence in the West Bank emerges as tool to intimidate Palestinians **Ramallah, occupied West Bank –** Qusay Abu al-Kabash, 29, continues to suffer physically and psychologically from a sexual assault allegedly perpetrated by a group
violence against Palestinians by Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Kaja Kallas, the EU foreign policy chief, said proposals for a part suspension of the EU-Israel association agreement remained on the table but required
impact was so severe that a portion of the boy’s brain protruded from the wound. Mohammad remains in the neurology intensive care unit under continuous sedation to control brain pressure. “Mohammad is a hardworking
Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/13/an-australian-writers-festival-cut-a-palestinian-author-in-the-wake-of-a-terror-attack-then-the-whole-thing-fell-apart-ntwnfb) and the award-winning First Nations author Melissa Lucashenko, who called the move an “egregious decision”. [Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email](https://www.theguardian.com
Palestinian homes and livelihoods in the West Bank. In her statement to MPs she also called on the Israeli government to open all crossings and remove arbitrary restrictions on the delivery of humanitarian
impact. The collision left Musa with severe internal bleeding. A teenage Thabet and others rushed to the scene, about two to three kilometres from the family home, attempting to give first aid. An Israeli ambulance
violence inflicted on Palestinians in the [occupied West Bank](/news/2026/5/5/palestine-weekly-wrap-israeli-security-agencies-sound-alarm-on-settlers) by Israeli settlers, often with support from Israeli forces. While Israel has had an openly antagonistic relationship with Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Israel
settlers embarked on brutal ethnic cleansing to establish Israel in 1948, they thought the Palestinian population would be the least of their problems. In fact, Zionist leaders like David Ben-Gurion [believed](https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/old-will-die-and-young-will-forget-did-ben-gurion-say-it)
settlers came. In the name of science, Israel justified ethnically cleansing the Palestinian village of Susya in order to conduct archaeological research there, and later on twisted the findings to prove that the very same