Despite international law condemning settlements, reproachful resolutions, legal opinions against occupation, and global demands for human and legal rights for occupied persons, the State of Israel continues its repressive control of Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Israeli authorities have intensified their campaign of land confiscations, forced displacement across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, issuing expulsion orders, escalating demolition policies, and daily harassment by illegal settlers with the illicit backing of the state and military.
Like the genocidal war in Gaza that killed, injured and displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians, Israel’s oppression goes on with impunity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
“Who could do to another human being what is being done to our Palestinian family and let it happen and not think of a humanitarian crisis?” asked the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, the National Representative of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam.
His remarks were delivered during his Saviours’ Day message titled: “What Does Allah The Great Mahdi and The Great Messiah Have To Say About The War In The Middle East?” on February 25, 2024. “The crisis is not just what is happening to the Palestinians.
The crisis involves what is happening to you, what is happening to me; what is happening to human beings who are more concerned with what they will lose by standing up,” said Minister Farrakhan.
Minister Farrakhan and his teacher, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad warned that by divine providence, a price will be paid for the bloodshed, schisms, strife and enmity permeating the earth.
“But who will pay for the killing of Palestinians, men and women, and children? Who will pay for the destruction of the Palestinian life and culture, and civilization?’ asked Minister Farrakhan.
Illegal settler terror
Assaults by Israeli settlers against Palestinians continue to escalate across the West Bank and East Jerusalem at an unprecedented rate, human rights advocates point out.
For example, a humanitarian situation update issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) documented between Jan. 20 and Feb. 2, noted that at least 52 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians occurred that resulted in casualties, property damage, or both. The attacks led to the displacement of 134 people
In the same period, there were demolitions of 69 Palestinian-owned structures for lacking Israeli-issued building permits, which are almost impossible for Palestinians to obtain, including 63 in the West Bank and six in East Jerusalem.
Demolished structures included 22 residences (21 of which were inhabited), 32 agricultural and livelihood structures, and 15 water and sanitation structures. Ten of the demolished structures had been provided as humanitarian assistance.
Nearly 700 Palestinians—including 350 children—in nine communities have been displaced due to settler attacks so far in 2026, including 600 displaced from Ras Ein Al Auja Bedouin community in Jericho province.
Large-scale operations by Israeli occupier forces significantly expanded beyond the northern West Bank to include the central and southern provinces.
Repeated Israeli settler attacks on the Ein Samiya wells east of Ramallah damaged critical infrastructure and blocked repairs, cutting the main water supply sporadically for three days and affecting an estimated 100,000 Palestinians across eastern Ramallah.
About 170 Palestinians have been displaced since the beginning of 2026 by the demolition of homes for lack of Israeli-issued building permits, following a record year in 2025 when more than 1,700 Palestinians were displaced due to lack-of-permit demolitions in Area C and East Jerusalem.
While these assaults are mostly in Area C, they have increasingly spread into other parts of the West Bank, underscoring the erosion of geographic and any legal restraints.
Area C makes up over 60% of the West Bank but remains under full Israeli military and administrative control. It was established during the Oslo II Accords of 1995, which carved up the territory into Areas A, B, and C, and is an area where Palestinian construction, movement, and access to land are severely restricted.
Palestinian human rights organizations have repeatedly sounded the alarm about the sharp rise in settler violence targeting Palestinian olive harvesters, farmers, herders, entire villages, schools, humanitarian workers, and Palestinian homes and infrastructure.
The intimidation tactics are widely seen as a deliberate strategy to terrorize communities, disrupt livelihoods, and accelerate land dispossession under the cover of security enforcement. However, many of the rights violations are allowed to occur under Israeli domestic laws,
Wickedness framed in a law
Israel uses a system called “Civil Administration” to govern Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, especially in Area C. The model is a military-run system that governs Palestinian civilian life in most of the West Bank while denying Palestinians sovereignty, equal law, or meaningful self-rule, while Israeli settlers live under normal Israeli civil law in the same territory.
It was formally established in 1981, replacing direct military rule but without ending the occupation.
Israeli settlers in the same territory are not subject to the Civil Administration; they fall under Israeli civil law, creating a dual and unequal legal system. On the ground in real time, the occupation looks like this:
• Area A: Palestinian Authority (PA) has nominal civil and security control
• Area B: PA has civil control, while Israel has security control
• Area C: Full Israeli control, via the Civil Administration
However, Area C includes:
• Most agricultural land
• Almost all water resources
• All Israeli settlements
• Most open space needed for Palestinian development
The 1990s Oslo agreement designated Area C as a temporary arrangement, but now, nearly 30 years later, it’s cemented. Human rights groups, UN bodies, and legal scholars argue that the Civil Administration serves as a mechanism of repression.
“Atrocity crimes are back,” said Philippe Bolopio, executive director of Human Rights Watch, in a Feb. 3 video introducing their new annual report. “The kind of atrocities that 20 years ago the world said we would no longer tolerate … the international community would step in to stop. … The responsibility to protect. …All of that today is almost disappearing,” said Mr. Bolopio.
Now there are raging situations of mass atrocities, “one of them being in Gaza and the West Bank, where the Israeli government has been committing acts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing,” said Mr. Bolopio.
Bloodshed rooted in Israel founding
The bloodshed, the illegal land grabbing, and forced displacement have a beginning. On pages 171-172 of His book, “The Fall of America,” the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam, explained the root cause of the ceaseless bloodshed engulfing Israel and the Middle East.
“America and England deposited their little brother, Israel, on foreign soil, Palestine, which is Arab land. They deprived the Arabs of their own land and sent them into exile,” wrote the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. “This injustice against the Arabs is now costing America the power and authority that she once exercised in the East.” He wrote further that: “She is on her way out of the Near East,” and “This means bloodshed and plenty of it.”
At the inception of Israel as a nation-state in 1948, over 700,000 Palestinians were forcibly exiled into other lands in what is known as the Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe). To this day, central to the Palestinian struggle for self-determination and justice is the “Right of Return” to their historical lands.
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan also referred to what is currently happening to the Palestinians as also a Nakba.
However, expulsion, land grabbing, occupation and expansion of Jewish settlements is Israeli policy. While denying the return of exiled Palestinians, those living in designated territories are subjugated under brutal occupation.
In the meantime, avenues of protection and accountability are increasingly inaccessible to Palestinians, as Israeli occupier forces fail to protect them, frequently act alongside settlers, and detain or expel international activists providing protective presence.
Alongside systematic discrimination against Palestinians in the West Bank, Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has raged on since October 2023. Israeli bombardment has killed at least 23 Palestinians since Feb. 4. At the same time, the sick and wounded were blocked from leaving through the Rafah crossing for medical care, despite a ceasefire agreement brokered in October 2025.
“What ‘ceasefire’? The Israeli occupation forces continues to shell & bomb Gaza killing 20 Palestinians, mainly women & children, & wounding scores of others within the past 12 hours, at the pretext that one Israeli soldier was wounded,” said Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian leader, and former chief negotiator.
“Since the beginning of the ‘ceasefire’ more than 553 Palestinians were murdered & no prefabs or serious medical needs & heavy machinery were allowed into Gaza,” she posted on X.
She posted that the Rafah crossing continues to be a cruel and severely restricted “passage of pain & humiliation.”
Policies upholding Israel are counter to peace. They are structured on injustice and thievery. Peace comes with justice and removing the peace-breaker, teaches the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
“There cannot be peace for the lovers who seek after peace until the peace breakers have been removed from authority and their activities of mischief making, causing bloodshed, grief, sorrow and trouble among peace-loving nations,” He wrote on page 265 of His monumental book, “Message to the Blackman in America.”