Settler Outposts Spread Among West Bank Villages and Fuel Fear of More Attacks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : During October's olive harvest, settlers across the territory launched an average of eight attacks daily, according to the United Nations humanitarian office, the most since it began collecting data in 2006.
49% : In an interview with Israel's Ynet news in 2015, Melet said he had received administrative orders barring him from the West Bank.
48% : The number of investigations opened into settler violence since 2023, Ben-Gvir's first year in office, has plummeted, according to a report by Israel's Channel 12 TV that cited official police data.
39% : According to an article about Dahari on the group's website, he has received at least 18 administrative orders since 2016 that included house arrest and confinement to his town in Israel.
39% : Their sense of impunity has deepened under Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, a settler, and Defense Minister Israel Katz, who in January released settlers from administrative detention, Israel's practice of detaining individuals without charge or trial.
33% : In rare move, Israel charges settler responsible Police arrested a man named Ariel Dahari for beating Abu Alia.
31% : Palestinians and human rights workers say Israeli soldiers and police routinely fail to prosecute attacks by violent settlers.

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