KLIK SAJA - Following the ceasefire between Israel and Iran, the image of the Zionist state has started to decline, and its war crimes are increasingly coming to light.
Evidence and data on Israel’s violations of international law have begun to circulate widely, drawing sharp condemnation from the international community.
This article highlights only a glimpse of the war crimes committed by the Israeli military in recent years.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has escalated its violence in the occupied West Bank, killing around 1,000 Palestinians.
While the world was distracted by Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza — which has killed more than 56,331 people and displaced nearly the entire population of 2.3 million — Israel aggressively intensified its brutal assaults in the West Bank while remaining silent on the violent actions of Israeli settlers attacking and killing Palestinian villagers.
Israel began constructing a separation wall in 2002 to isolate Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank.
This wall cuts through Palestinian communities and agricultural lands and is surrounded by illegal settlements that strangle the West Bank.
Settlers have launched sudden and brutal attacks on Palestinian towns: burning property, assaulting residents, and trying to drive them from their homes.
At the same time, Israeli security forces have laid siege to and relentlessly raided refugee camps, forcing more people from their homes and barring their return.
Many settlers have also been armed with semi-automatic weapons and "integrated" into Israeli forces in the West Bank, to compensate for personnel shortages due to the massive deployment to Gaza.
This policy blurs the lines between security forces and settlers, empowering the latter to escalate violence against Palestinians.
According to Peace Now — an Israeli nonprofit organization monitoring land seizures in Palestine — in 2024 alone, Israel confiscated more Palestinian land in the West Bank than in the previous 20 years combined.
Israel’s far-right Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has led this push since taking control of the newly formed “Settlements Administration” in February 2023.
This position enables Smotrich to push for Israel’s de facto annexation of the occupied West Bank by applying Israeli civil law in the area, in blatant violation of international law.
Smotrich has approved the establishment of new outposts — illegal under both international and Israeli law — seized land, and implemented "settlement and construction regulations".
