\u2018Cycle of terror\u2019 spikes as Higher Planning Council set to advance plans to build 1,985 new settlement units in occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n
Israeli forces and settlers have carried out 2,350 attacks across the occupied West Bank last month in an \u201congoing cycle of terror\u201d, according to the Palestinian Authority\u2019s Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission (CRRC).<\/p>\n
CRRC head Mu\u2019ayyad Sha\u2019ban said on Wednesday that Israeli forces carried out 1,584 attacks \u2013 including direct physical attacks, the demolition of homes and the uprooting of olive trees \u2013 with most of the violence focused on the governorates of Ramallah (542), Nablus (412) and Hebron (401).<\/p>\n
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The research, compiled in a CRRC monthly report titled Occupation Violations and Colonial Expansion Measures, also noted 766 attacks by settlers. The commission said they are expanding settlements, which are illegal under international law, as part of what it called an \u201corganised strategy that aims to displace the land\u2019s indigenous people and enforce a fully racist colonial regime\u201d.<\/p>\n
The report said settler attacks reached a new peak with most targeting the Ramallah governorate (195), Nablus (179) and Hebron (126). Olive pickers received the brunt of attacks, according to the report, which said they were the victims of \u201cstate terror\u201d that had been \u201corchestrated in the dark backrooms of the occupation government\u201d.<\/p>\n
It described instances of Israeli \u201cvandalism and theft\u201d carried out in cahoots with Israeli soldiers that have seen the \u201cuprooting, destruction and poisoning\u201d of 1,200 olive trees in Hebron, Ramallah, Tubas, Qalqilya, Nablus and Bethlehem. During the violence, settlers have tried to establish seven new outposts on Palestinian land since October in the governorates of Hebron and Nablus.<\/p>\n