Humanitarian Situation Update #301 | West Bank

The Humanitarian Situation Updates on the Gaza Strip and on the West Bank are both issued every Wednesday/Thursday. The Gaza Humanitarian Response Update is issued every other Tuesday. The next Humanitarian Situation Update on the West Bank will be published on 9 or 10 July.

Key Highlights

• On 25 June, five Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces, including three in a large-scale settler attack on Kafr Malik village, in Ramallah governorate, during which Israeli settlers set fire to, and threw stones at, homes and other property.
• Some 740 settler attacks in the first half of 2025 affected over 200 Palestinian communities across the West Bank, resulting in property damage and the injury of 340 Palestinians by Israeli settlers.
• The month of June recorded the highest monthly number of Palestinians injured by Israeli settlers (95) in the past two decades – an average of three Palestinians injured per day.
• Israeli authorities carried out a mass demolition incident in Tell al Khashaba herding community in the Jordan Valley, displacing five households. This is the third mass demolition incident in the community since the beginning of 2025.
• The Israeli military issued a demolition order against 104 structures in Tulkarm refugee camp.

Humanitarian Developments

• Between 24 and 30 June, five Palestinians, including one child, were killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank. During the same period, at least 49 Palestinians, including two children, were injured, of whom 27 were injured by settlers and 22 by Israeli forces. The following are details of the incidents that resulted in fatalities, all of which took place on 25 June:
  • Israeli forces shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in a search operation in Al Yamun village, in Jenin governorate, during which Palestinians reportedly threw an improvised explosive device toward Israeli forces, who fired live ammunition. No injuries among Israeli forces were reported.
  • A member of Israeli forces shot and killed an elderly Palestinian woman during an operation in Shu’fat refugee camp, in East Jerusalem, while she was standing on the balcony of her home. According to community sources, the incident occurred at about 1:00 a.m., during a large-scale Israeli incursion into the camp. Israeli forces withheld the body of the woman for two days before returning it to the family. According to the Israeli police cited by the media, an undercover police officer was hit by a stone during the incident and Israeli forces opened fire in response to stone throwing at them.
  • Three Palestinians were killed in a large-scale settler attack involving arson in Kafr Malik village, in Ramallah governorate (see below for details).
• On 30 June, a 22-year-old Palestinian detainee from Jenin, who was detained in March 2024, died in an Israeli prison. According to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees' Affairs, his death has raised to 26 the number of Palestinian detainees from the West Bank who have died in Israeli custody since 7 October 2023. As of June 2025, according to data provided by the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to Hamoked, an Israeli human rights NGO, there are 10,397 Palestinians in Israeli custody, including 1,447 sentenced prisoners, 3,174 remand detainees, 3,562 administrative detainees held without charge or trial, and 2,214 people held as “unlawful combatants.”
• On 29 June, Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian man, and physically assaulted and injured another, while they were trying to enter Israel and East Jerusalem through informal openings in the Barrier near Meitar checkpoint, in Adh Dhahiriya in Hebron governorate. Since October 2023, when Israeli authorities revoked or suspended most permits issued for Palestinian workers and others to gain access to East Jerusalem and Israel, OCHA has documented 96 incidents where Palestinians were killed or injured while trying to cross through informal openings in the Barrier, resulting in the killing of 12 Palestinians by live ammunition and the injury of 125 others. These include 33 incidents documented since the beginning of 2025, which resulted in two fatalities and 43 injuries. The incidents are recurring amid a significant deterioration in labour market conditions in the West Bank in the aftermath of 7 October 2023, with over 300,000 jobs lost by mid-2024, according to the UN Trade and Development organization (UNCTAD), and a spike in unemployment from about 13 per cent to an average of about 35 per cent between October 2023 and September 2024, according to the Interim Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (IRDNA) issued by the World Bank, European Union, and UN.
• Between 24 and 30 June, Israeli forces issued four requisition orders against 22,300 dunums (5,510 acres) in Nablus, Tubas and Jenin governorates for security reasons, including the establishment of military roads, as follows: 13,525 dunams (3,342 acres) in Burqa village, 6,274 dunams (1,550 acres) in Burin and Tell villages, and 2,400 dunums (593 acres) in Huwara, all in Nablus governorate; 56 dunums (14 acres) in eastern Tubas city; and 45 dunums (11 acres), southeast of Jenin city. All lands are privately owned by Palestinians.
• Between 24 and 30 June, OCHA documented at least 28 settler attacks against Palestinians that resulted in casualties, property damage, or both. These attacks led to the killing of three Palestinians by Israeli forces and the injury of 37 others, including 10 by Israeli forces and 27 by Israeli settlers. In addition, more than 400 olive trees and saplings and 12 vehicles were vandalized. Key incidents included:
  • In the evening hours of 25 June, dozens of Israeli settlers, accompanied by Israeli forces, stormed Kafr Malik village, in Ramallah governorate, setting homes and other property on fire and throwing stones. Two homes were partially burnt, two sustained damage by stone throwing, and four vehicles were fully burnt. Israeli forces fired live ammunition and rubber bullets, killing three Palestinians with live ammunition and injuring 10 others, including seven with live ammunition, two by shrapnel and one by rubber bullets. Israeli military jeeps also reportedly blocked the access of ambulances, obstructing the evacuation of the injured. One of the killed was a 34-year-old Palestinian father of two who, according to community sources, was shot in the head at point-blank range at the entrance to his home; at the time he was shot, the man was evacuating his wife and children along with other families in the area where homes were attacked and set on fire. According to the Israeli military, as cited in the media, Palestinians from the village fired at them and threw stones. One Israeli soldier was reported as injured by a stone, but it remains unknown if he was injured by Palestinians or Israeli settlers. The Israeli military reportedly arrested five settlers, who were released the following morning.
  • In the evening hours of 25 June, a group of armed Israeli settlers attacked Dar Faza'a Bedouin community, in eastern Ramallah governorate, while residents were gathering to pray in the community’s praying hall. The settlers used flammable materials to set fire to property, damaging one home, destroying two vehicles, and causing damage to a cultivated plot of land, a wood storage room, stacks of wood and plastic sheets covering one of the residential structures. Several house windows were also shattered by stones thrown by settlers. Seven Palestinians, including three women, suffered from smoke inhalation as they tried to evacuate the attacked homes and were treated by paramedics who reached the area following the withdrawal of Israeli settlers.
  • On 25 June, Israeli settlers believed to be from a nearby outpost, attacked Palestinian farmers while they were working on their agricultural lands on the western outskirts of Al Mazra’a al Sharqiya town, in Ramallah governorate. The settlers reportedly opened live fire, forcing farmers to flee for safety except one farmer who was physically assaulted and injured by Israeli settlers. Settlers vandalized one vehicle and several agricultural structures and stole another vehicle, whose owner had run for safety.
  • In the afternoon hours of 25 June, a group of Israeli settlers, believed to be from an outpost near Yitzhar settlement and one of whom was armed, obstructed firefighting efforts to put out a fire in Asira al Qibliya village, in southern Nablus governorate, firing live ammunition in the air, and throwing stones at emergency responders, residents and homes. A 64-year-old Palestinian was injured by a stone. After the settlers were seen being escorted out of the village by Israeli forces, Palestinians were able to extinguish the fire.
  • In the afternoon hours of 29 June, Israeli settlers riding four vehicles and two quad bikes shot and injured three Palestinians with live ammunition during an attack on Palestinian herders on the eastern outskirts of Hizma village, in Jerusalem governorate. Israeli settlers attempted to seize the families’ sheep, triggering confrontations, in which settlers fired live ammunition at Palestinians. In addition, settlers set fire to a wooden, agricultural structure, before reportedly fleeing the area under the protection of Israeli forces.
  • Between 24 and 30 June, Israeli settlers raided Susiya village, in Hebron governorate, four times. In total, they injured four Palestinians, including three due to physical assault and one woman with a stone, set fire to and destroyed a metal structure used as a kitchen, uprooted 150 olive trees, and destroyed three solar lights, three surveillance cameras and a 500-metre fence with metal poles.
• In the first half of 2025, OCHA documented about 740 attacks perpetrated by settlers against Palestinians that led to casualties or damage to property, affecting over 200 communities across the West Bank, primarily in Ramallah, Nablus and Hebron governorates. This is a daily average of four incidents, similar to the frequency observed in 2024, the highest year on record of settler incidents that resulted in casualties or property damage. Among others, these incidents led to the injury of 492 Palestinians, including 340 (69 per cent) by Israeli settlers, 146 (30 per cent) by Israeli forces, and six where it remains unknown if they were injured by Israeli forces or settlers. Of the total, 95 were injured by Israeli settlers in June 2025, an average of three Palestinians a day, marking the highest monthly total of Palestinians injured by Israeli settlers documented by OCHA in the past two decades, with the second highest total recorded in October 2023, when 70 Palestinians were injured.
• On 30 June, six Palestinian households of the same extended family, comprising 28 people, including nine children, have begun dismantling their homes and livestock structures in Ein al Hilwa – Wadi al Faw community, near Khirbet Samra in the northern Jordan Valley, citing recurrent attacks and intimidation by Israeli settlers, including restricted access to water sources and grazing areas. The households, who have been living in this area for more than two decades, reported being subjected to repeated raids, threats and acts of intimidation by Israeli settlers, believed to be from recently established outposts in the area. Since the beginning of 2025, OCHA documented 93 settler incidents in the Jordan Valley that resulted in casualties or property damage, more than half of which were in Tubas governorate in the northern Jordan Valley. Overall, more than 2,300 Palestinians across the West Bank have been displaced since October 2023, citing settler violence and access restrictions.
• Between 24 and 30 June, OCHA documented 10 demolition incidents in Area C and two in East Jerusalem for lacking Israeli-issued building permits, which are almost impossible to obtain. In total, 35 structures were demolished, including six inhabited homes, one uninhabited residential structure, 12 agricultural structures, eight livelihood structures, five water and sanitation structures and three other structures. Consequently, six households comprising 30 Palestinians, including 16 children, were displaced and some 85 people were otherwise affected. Of the displaced, five households were in the Jordan Valley, in Tell al Khashabah herding community in Nablus governorate (see below), and one household comprising eight people, including six children, was in Hizma town, in Jerusalem governorate, where Israeli forces demolished a house, an animal shelter and a wall. During the first half of 2025, 741 structures, including about 149 homes, were demolished in Area C for lacking Israeli-issued building permits and 716 people were displaced, compared with 429 structures demolished and 368 people displaced in the first six months of 2024. In East Jerusalem, 97 structures, including 54 homes, were demolished for lacking Israeli-issued building permits and 286 people were displaced in the first half of 2025, compared with 99 structures demolished and 213 people displaced in the first six months of 2024.
• In the morning hours of 30 June 2025, Israeli forces, accompanied by Israeli Civil Administration officials and several bulldozers, demolished 13 structures in Tell al Khashaba herding community (with an estimated population of about 125 people), in Area C of Nablus governorate in the Jordan Valley, for lacking Israeli-issued building permits. The demolition displaced five herding families comprising 22 people, including 10 children and five women, one of whom is 83 years old. The demolished structures included four residential tents and barracks, six animal structures with metallic fencing, and three mobile latrines. During the demolition, about 15 animal fodder sacks and seven water tanks were vandalized. This is the third mass demolition incident in Tell al Khashaba community since the beginning of 2025, which cumulatively involved the demolition 48 structures, including 22 that were provided as humanitarian assistance.
• Following the start of the military escalation between Israel and Iran on 13 June, Israeli forces have kept some key checkpoints and road gates open only for limited hours, negatively affecting the daily life of Palestinians, including access to livelihoods, markets, and emergency services. For example, in Salfit governorate, the gate at the main entrance to Salfit city (pop. 13,000), which was previously closed, has been open for ten hours a day, from 7:00 to 11:00 and 14:00 to 20:00, forcing thousands of people in nearby communities to make a long detour of about an hour through Al Lubban ash Sharqiya town, in Nablus governorate, to access services in the city during the times when the gate is closed. The northern entrance to Salfit city, on the Yasuf-Iskaka road, has also been closed over the past two weeks. Similarly, access to Nablus city and nearby towns has been especially constrained, with slow checking procedures and delays of up to five hours facing thousands of Palestinians crossing via most of the checkpoints, such as Beit Furik checkpoint, the only entrance to more than 20,000 people living in Beit Furik and Beit Dajan villages.
• For key figures and additional breakdowns of casualties, displacement and settler violence between January 2005 and April 2025, please refer to the OCHA West Bank April 2025 Snapshot.

Northern West Bank Operations

• Since 13 June, following the start of the military escalation between Israel and Iran, OCHA documented 36 incidents whereby Israeli soldiers took over roughly 267 Palestinian homes (inhabited or uninhabited housing units) for periods ranging from several hours to a few days, in Ramallah, Hebron, Nablus, Tubas, Tulkarm and Jenin governorates. These include 237 housing units whose residents were temporarily evacuated in the six governorates in the northern West Bank.
• On 24 June, Israeli forces carried out a 19-hour raid into Ya’bad town, in Jenin governorate, where it temporarily evacuated 12 families from their homes and turned them into military posts, searched about 100 homes, and arrested five Palestinians. According to the municipality, Israeli forces also stole money and gold from several homes. During the operation, Israeli forces imposed curfew on the town and forced local shops to close, severely disrupting the movement of about 18,000 residents. The following day, Israeli forces evacuated one family from another house on the eastern outskirts of the town and temporarily converted it into a military post, before withdrawing.
• Overnight on 25 June, Israeli forces carried out a seven-hour operation in Tammun town, in Tubas governorate, where they searched and caused damage to homes, detained some residents and interrogated them at one of the homes, and imposed curfew on the town’s 15,000 residents.
• As of 30 June, Israeli forces have continued to intensify their presence in Jenin city, establishing flying checkpoints at three key locations within the city (in Area A), including An Nasra Street, Al Askari, and the road leading to the Al Jalama checkpoint. Using military jeeps, they regularly stop and search Palestinian residents, checking their IDs and vehicles. In two separate incidents on 28 and 29 June, Israeli forces took over two residential buildings comprising four housing units, near Jenin camp, and three other homes in the eastern neighbourhood of the city, converting them into temporary military outposts, affecting nearly 35 people who were forcibly evacuated from their homes. While some have returned to their homes after several hours, others remain displaced as of the time of reporting.
• In Jenin refugee camp, since the issuance of demolition orders against 96 structures on 9 June, local sources have reported several waves of demolitions, involving bulldozers, that remain ongoing as of the time of reporting. Affected areas include Mahyub street and Abdallah Azzam and Al 'Awda neighbourhoods. On 28 June, local sources indicated seeing smoke after hearing sound detonations. On 30 June, an Israeli bulldozer was seen demolishing a multi-storey building near the camp’s eastern entrance, which comprises multiple commercial stores and homes for nine families, according to Jenin Municipality. The boundary wall of Jenin Governmental Hospital nearby also sustained minor damage. The Municipality additionally reported that requests through the Palestinian District Coordination Liaison (DCL) for the families to retrieve their belongings ahead of the demolition were denied by the Israeli authorities. Overall, the exact number of structures that have so far been demolished remains unverified as entry to the camp remains barred by Israeli forces.
• In Tulkarm refugee camp, on 30 June, Israeli forces resumed demolition operations following a pause reported on 18 June. According to local sources, Israeli bulldozers demolished two residential structures comprising at least eight housing units. On the same day, Israeli authorities issued and delivered new demolition orders targeting 104 residential structures inside the camp. According to the Palestinian General Authority for Civil Affairs (Pal-GACA), Israeli authorities provided a map highlighting the 104 marked homes and an initial list of 50 affected residential structures. Residents of these 50 homes have been briefly permitted by Israeli authorities to retrieve some of their belongings this week ahead of planned demolition operations. Meanwhile, demolitions in Nur Shams camp are ongoing but the area remains a closed military zone and totally inaccessible.
• Highlighting the human toll of prolonged displacement from Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps in the northern West Bank, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) published a briefing note that draws on nearly 300 interviews with displaced people in mid-May across 17 locations and other operational data. Findings show that nearly half of displaced people have been displaced at least three times between January and May, with repeated displacement and uncertainty driving up mental health needs, especially among women and children. One in three could not reach a doctor when needed due to the high cost, long distance or lack of transport, and roughly half reported inconsistent access to food and water. Moreover, at times when Israeli forces granted limited access to displaced families to retrieve their belongings, they were subjected to shootings, assault and detentions and some found their homes burned, looted or occupied; families reported more than 100 such incidents to MSF. To address some of the needs, MSF has deployed mobile medical teams at 42 public sites, displacement shelters and health centres run by the Ministry of Health, offering primary healthcare services to more than 2,200 people and mental health support, among others. Noting that 22 per cent of displaced families who were interviewed, have reported that they have not received any assistance, MSF called for an urgent scale-up of assistance to address critical gaps and for the facilitation of safe, voluntary and dignified returns of forcibly displaced refugees.

Funding

• As of 1 July 2025, Member States have disbursed approximately US$738 million out of the $4 billion (18 per cent) requested to meet the most critical humanitarian needs of three million out of 3.3 million people identified as requiring assistance in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in 2025, under the 2025 Flash Appeal for the OPT. Nearly 88 per cent of the requested funds are for humanitarian response in Gaza, with just over 12 per cent for the West Bank. Moreover, during June 2025, the oPt Humanitarian Fund managed 122 ongoing projects, totalling $70.1 million, to address urgent needs in the Gaza Strip (87 per cent) and the West Bank (13 per cent). Of these projects, 58 are being implemented by international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), 48 by national NGOs and 16 by UN agencies. Notably, 42 out of the 74 projects implemented by INGOs or the UN are being implemented in collaboration with national NGOs. For more information, please see OCHA’s Financial Tracking Service webpage and the oPt HF webpage.

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