News Center — Raids, arrests, and home demolitions are expanding in the West Bank and Jerusalem, amid increasing cases of forced displacement affecting Palestinian families in Jerusalem neighborhoods and various areas of the West Bank, with fears of worsening policies to change the demographic reality and threaten Palestinian existence.

The National Office for the Defense of Land and Resistance to Settlement, affiliated with the Palestine Liberation Organization, documented an escalation in Israeli measures aimed at expanding settlements and seizing Palestinian lands, in a path extending from Area "C" to Areas "A" and "B." The report confirms that this expansion threatens the geographic contiguity between Palestinian cities, towns, and communities in the occupied West Bank, and deepens the risks of fragmenting the Palestinian space.

The report, issued today, Saturday, September 5, covers the period from August 29 to September 4, and indicates that Peace Now documented the establishment of 26 settlement outposts and pastoral farms in Area "B." This tally includes seven new outposts documented at the end of 2024, followed by 19 additional outposts, most of which were established in recent months.

Wafa news agency reported that the establishment of these outposts was accompanied by road construction, seizure of water sources, and the imposition of restrictions on the movement of Palestinian citizens, enabling limited numbers of settlers to control vast areas of land, within the framework of the forced displacement plan against Palestinians.

Among the most prominent settlement developments this week, a new settlement named "Noa" was established days ago, south of the "Ganim" and "Kadim" settlements built on citizens' lands southeast of Jenin.

The report noted that "Noa" is the eighth settlement established by the Council of Settlements in the Northern West Bank in less than a year, within the so‑called "Connectivity Plan," which aims to establish 19 new settlements in the northern West Bank. It added that the project is linked to the so‑called "One Million Jews in the West Bank Plan," promoted by the Settlements Council to increase the number of settlers in the northern West Bank to one million Jews.

The report stressed that settler terrorism is a key tool in imposing control over lands and displacing Palestinian citizens, pointing to the displacement of more than 120 Palestinian communities across the West Bank, most of them Bedouin and herders, including 19 communities in Area "B," which is under joint Palestinian civil control and Israeli security control.

According to the report, these developments indicate an accelerating pace of settlement expansion and land seizure, and the expansion of Israeli measures aimed at imposing control over Areas "A" and "B," threatening Palestinian existence and geographic contiguity between various areas of the West Bank.

Meanwhile, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights accused Israeli forces of displacing more than 33,000 Palestinians from three camps in the occupied West Bank in 2025, stating that this raises fears of "the commission of crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing."

The Commission affirmed that the use of airstrikes, armored bulldozers, and organized demolition operations to render entire camps uninhabitable, forcing their residents to displace and preventing their return, in the absence of urgent military necessity, is not permitted under international law, and appears to constitute a form of collective punishment, raising concerns about the possibility of ethnic cleansing.

The "Iron Wall" operation was launched on January 21, 2025, 48 hours after a fragile ceasefire came into effect in the Gaza Strip, following fifteen months of war that left approximately 250,000 Palestinians dead, injured, or missing, according to Palestinian estimates.