Israeli authorities have closed more than 93 percent of investigations into attacks by Israeli illegal settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank without filing indictments, the Palestine Liberation Organization said Saturday.
The figure appeared in a weekly report by the PLO's National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements on violations committed by Israeli illegal settlers and the military.
“Occupier crimes are an extension of a coordinated policy between Illegal settlers and the (Israeli) occupation army under explicit government cover,” the report said.
It said "more than 93 percent of investigation files concerning settler attacks were closed without indictments being filed."
The report said Illegal settler violence has intensified since the beginning of 2026 and evolved into "organised practices that complement the policies of the occupation forces."
‘Political cover’ for settler attacks
It accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his government, particularly Defence Minister Israel Katz, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, of providing political backing for occupier attacks.
According to the report, the attacks are aimed at displacing Palestinian farming and pastoral communities and seizing their land while perpetrators enjoy widespread impunity.
Citing data from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the report said more than 1,330 illegal settler attacks had been documented in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of 2026.
It said the attacks included arson targeting homes and mosques, damage to agricultural facilities and water networks, and violence that forced Palestinian families, as well as Bedouin and pastoral communities, to leave their homes.
The Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission said Israeli illegal settlers carried out about 12,500 attacks in the occupied West Bank during the first 1,000 days of Israel's genocidal war in Gaza, killing 82 Palestinians, starting 890 fires and establishing 200 illegal settlement outposts.
According to official Palestinian figures, Israeli military and illegal settler attacks in the occupied West Bank since October 2023 have killed more than 1,182 Palestinians, injured about 13,000 others and resulted in the arrest of 24,600 people.
