On the morning of July 24, greater than 20 Israeli settlers from the unlawful Havat Gilad settlement attacked Palestinians’ homes on the japanese fringe of Tal, southwest of Nablus within the occupied West Financial institution.
Residents initially drove them again, however the settlers returned shortly afterwards, with Israeli troopers. Movies seem to point out a Palestinian man seizing a settler’s rifle and capturing him lifeless earlier than troopers shoot the person lifeless, with further video revealing Israelis persevering with to open fireplace.
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4 Palestinians from the Ramadan household have been killed within the ensuing violence. A settler and an Israeli soldier additionally died.
Within the days since, the retaliation from Israeli forces and settlers alike has been overwhelming, with the occupied West Financial institution gripped by armed assaults, raids, demolitions, highway closures and arson.
The sequence is acquainted: settlers enter a Palestinian village, violence follows, and Israeli navy operations quickly increase. However with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition in its closing months in energy earlier than elections, this week’s violence escalated nicely past the already grim baseline.
‘Regularise the farms’
Hours after the killings in Tal, Netanyahu ordered a “wide-scale navy operation”, together with demolishing the alleged Palestinian attacker’s house, revoking work permits in villages he known as “terror hotspots”, reinforcing military models and accelerating the “regularisation” of settler farms and outposts – that are unlawful even below Israeli legislation.
Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich stated the response could be an “iron fist”, whereas Nationwide Safety Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stated each West Financial institution village ought to share the fate of Beit Hanoon in Gaza (flattened after any assault in opposition to Israelis). By the weekend, Israeli public radio reported that 26 military battalions have been deployed throughout the occupied West Financial institution.
Israeli forces returned to raid Tal nightly over the subsequent a number of days, arresting roughly 30 to 50 residents and looking out some 70 houses. The marketing campaign was additionally carried out throughout Jenin, Tubas, Ramallah, Hebron, Bethlehem, Tulkarem and occupied East Jerusalem.
In Nablus, about 5km (3 miles) from Tal, Israeli forces stormed the hospital, the Wafa information company reported, handcuffing medical doctors and nurses earlier than detaining a wounded affected person shot throughout the Tal assault.
4 new Israeli settlement outposts appeared in a single day subsequent to Tal and the close by villages of Awarta, Qusra and Jabal Ubayd, in line with Israeli public radio and activist Murad Samara.
This provides to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Fee’s rely of 42 new unlawful outposts constructed throughout the occupied West Financial institution within the first half of 2026, most of them agricultural, concentrated within the Hebron, Ramallah and Nablus governorates.
Weekend of arson, roadblocks, and mosques set ablaze
The killings in Tal have been the spark for settler violence that, within the days since, has engulfed quite a few villages throughout the West Financial institution. Israel’s Military Radio counted 30 separate settler assaults throughout the territory over the weekend. Haaretz reported that influential settler figures ignored appeals from military officers to calm the scenario.
In Sarra, southwest of Nablus, settlers burned six Palestinian houses and 5 automobiles and beat three villagers, Mayor Numan Abdullah stated. When settlers tried to storm the village once more on Saturday, Israeli forces adopted to guard them and fired tear fuel, resulting in Palestinians and journalists affected by tear fuel inhalation.
In Farata, east of Qalqilya, settlers set fireplace to a woodworking store, two houses and farmland, wounding 5 Palestinians with gunfire, stones and shrapnel, and emptied the water tank of a civil defence truck responding to the blaze, in line with the Palestinian Crimson Crescent.
Earlier than daybreak on Sunday, settlers set fireplace to 2 mosques in so-called “price ticket” assaults (retaliatory assaults by Israeli settlers and nationalists in opposition to Palestinians). One was the al-Rahma Mosque below development in Qusra, the place Hebrew graffiti studying “revenge for Benayahu” – the Israeli settler killed in Tal – was sprayed on the partitions, Qusra Mayor Abdul Azim Wadi stated. The second was a mosque in Kour village close to Tulkarem, which was defaced with racist slogans, in line with the Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf.
A Palestinian toddler not but two months outdated survived an arson assault on her household’s house in Urif, solely as a result of her grandfather pulled her from her crib as greater than 150 settlers set the home alight, relations instructed Gaza Now.
Early on July 27, a six-month-pregnant lady misplaced her youngster in Awarta after being prevented from passing a closed gate by troopers, who searched the girl whereas she was struggling excessive bleeding.
Israeli forces additionally sealed roads throughout the northern West Financial institution, closing entrances to Sinjil, erecting a checkpoint at Nabi Saleh, and repeatedly shutting gates round Jerusalem, whereas settlers established rolling roadblocks close to Nablus and Ramallah, in line with Wafa and native activists.
In Nablus, Ameed Ahmad, the director of the town’s Emergency and Ambulance Middle, instructed Wafa that tightened checkpoint restrictions have been delaying ambulance transfers to hospitals, together with for kidney dialysis sufferers. The end result has been a West Financial institution successfully besieged, with Palestinian cities and villages more and more minimize off from one another.
Land seizure orders accompanied the violence. Israeli authorities issued new orders this week to uproot olive bushes and seize land in Jaba, Ajjah and al-Yamoun within the Jenin governorate, in addition to extra land in Tubas, Wafa reported.
Deaths tied to settler assaults in 2026 – 18 as of July 20, per the UN humanitarian company, OCHA – had already exceeded all of 2025 earlier than the 4 Tal killings have been added to the rely, alongside the killing on July 23 of two Palestinians in Beit Furik, east of Nablus, who have been trying to extinguish fires set by settlers on Palestinian farmland.
Gaza’s post-‘ceasefire’ toll passes 1,200
In Gaza, the Ministry of Well being’s tally of Palestinians killed for the reason that October 2025 “ceasefire” reached 1,203 on July 27.
The week’s lifeless have been killed at areas which have been repeatedly attacked for the reason that “ceasefire” took impact:
- A drone strike killed two Palestinians exterior Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital in Jabalia, medical sources instructed Wafa.
- Separate strikes destroyed houses in Zeitoun and the Yarmouk space of Gaza Metropolis, and hit a residential block within the Maghazi camp, Wafa and Gaza Now reported.
- Brigadier-Basic Abdul-Nasser al-Maqadma, described by Gaza’s Inside Ministry because the territory’s “governor of northern Gaza” and head of its police pressure, was killed in a drone strike in Sheikh Radwan. Israel claimed that he was a member of Hamas’s navy wing.
- A drone killed Khaled al-Breem in Khan Younis as he went to purchase sweets to have fun his highschool examination outcomes with visiting relations, in line with Quds Information Community and Wafa.
- Two folks have been killed in a separate strike on the Abu al-Rish household house in Khan Younis on the identical day.
- On July 26, a drone fired three missiles right into a four-wheel drive close to Deir el-Balah, killing two Hamas safety officers.
Israel’s “Yellow Line”, which demarcates the world Israel straight controls in Gaza, additionally continued advancing past the strains agreed upon within the October 2025 “ceasefire”.
The Israeli military pushed new concrete blocks into the Abu al-Ajeen space east of Deir el-Balah earlier than daybreak on July 25, forcing extra households to flee, native sources instructed Wafa and Gaza Now.
Two days later, the “Yellow Line” was moved once more on Salah al-Din Road in the direction of the Sanfour intersection east of Gaza Metropolis, in line with Gaza activist Hamza al-Masri.
Satellite tv for pc imagery analysed by The Related Press information company showed Israel building an earthen barrier stretching roughly 23km (14 miles) throughout the Strip – greater than half the enclave’s size – dividing Gaza in two. The US-led Board of Peace and Central Command, which oversee the “ceasefire”, haven’t commented, AP stated.
The humanitarian image in Gaza additionally continued to deteriorate. The World Meals Programme, which helps the 70 p.c of Gaza’s inhabitants that depends on meals help, warned it might be compelled into deeper cuts with out pressing funding.
The UN’s Meals and Agriculture Group and UNICEF, in the meantime, stated that 67 p.c of the inhabitants, or 1.4 million folks, nonetheless face disaster ranges of not having sufficient to eat.
OCHA reported that there have been almost 4,000 miscarriages within the first half of 2026, greater than triple the quantity within the second half of final 12 months, with extreme maternal issues at 82 per 1,000 deliveries, and 57 p.c of pregnant girls being anaemic.
The Could closure of the Zikim crossing, the principle entry level into northern Gaza, has minimize weekly assist vans coming into the Strip by roughly a 3rd.
In the meantime, the Israeli authorities has approved the entry into Gaza of an Worldwide Stabilization Drive (ISF) following diplomatic calls to hurry up its deployment.
The ISF will function “in full coordination” with the Israeli navy in areas that aren’t below Israeli management, an Israeli official stated, in line with The Occasions of Israel.
No timeline has been set for the entry of the ISF, nonetheless, which shall be comprised of about 200 folks from “pleasant nations comparable to Uganda and Morocco”, in line with the Reuters information company.
