Israeli violations against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank continue unabated amid a troubling international silence and persistent failure to enforce accountability and justice.
In this context, Abdul Rahman Ahmad Abbas Darawsha, aged 26, was killed by Israeli occupation forces during a raid on Al-Fara’a refugee camp, south of Tubas — another example of the excessive use of force and disregard for Palestinian lives that has become a hallmark of the occupation’s field policy.
Darawsha sustained critical injuries during clashes that erupted amid the raid and was transferred to Tubas Governmental Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
The incursion was accompanied by the deployment of ground troops at the camp’s entrances and heavy live fire, disrupting traffic in the surrounding streets — a scene that has become almost routine across the West Bank over the past two years.
Darawsha’s death raises the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza on 7 October 2023 to more than 1,069, in addition to about 10,000 wounded and over 20,000 detainees, including 1,600 children, according to official Palestinian data.
Alongside the military escalation by occupation forces, settler attacks against Palestinians and their property continue across the West Bank. On Sunday morning, eight Palestinians were injured in violent assaults by settlers using stones and wooden clubs.
In the Arab al-Ar’ara community north of Jerusalem, seven Palestinians were wounded after settlers attacked them and set fire to livestock shelters and residential tents, causing extensive property damage.
In Umm al-Khair village, south of Hebron, settlers assaulted Palestinian farmers working their land, injuring Ahmad Shuaib al-Hathalin, who suffered wounds to his face and head and was taken to Yatta Governmental Hospital. Settlers also released their livestock to graze on Palestinian farmland — a recurring tactic aimed at coercing residents into abandoning their land.
These assaults form part of a systematic campaign to depopulate rural areas in preparation for annexation, in clear violation of international humanitarian law, which prohibits the forcible transfer of populations from occupied territories.
Such practices expose a structural system of discrimination designed to dominate the land, restrict Palestinians’ movement, and deprive them of fundamental rights, including the rights to life, housing, work, and freedom of movement.
Field evidence indicates that the widespread and systematic violations committed against Palestinians in the West Bank constitute a pattern of collective punishment and racial discrimination, in blatant breach of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions — violations that demand urgent international intervention to protect Palestinians and uphold the rule of law.
