Impunity is policy
Settler attacks are not isolated acts by a fringe. They happen in front of soldiers, they are almost never prosecuted, and they keep pushing Palestinians off their land. That pattern is the evidence.
attacks documented: 493
What the UN, courts and rights groups found
- 93.6% of police investigations into ideologically motivated crimes by Israelis against Palestinians in the West Bank were closed without an indictment (2005–2025). Yesh Din
- 3% of those investigations ended in a full or partial conviction. Yesh Din
- 1,800+ settler attacks causing casualties or damage in 2025, about five a day, the highest since the UN began recording in 2006. UN OCHA
- 36,000+ Palestinians forcibly displaced by settlement expansion and annexation in the 12 months to October 2025. The UN Human Rights Office says longstanding, pervasive impunity encourages settler violence. UN OHCHR
- UN CoI The UN Commission of Inquiry found in June 2026 that the growing participation of Israeli security forces in settler attacks has erased the line between settlers and soldiers, and that Israeli authorities are directly involved. UN Commission of Inquiry (via Reuters / Al-Monitor)
- ICJ The International Court of Justice ruled in July 2024 that Israel must cease all new settlement activity and evacuate all settlers from the occupied Palestinian territory. International Court of Justice
- 107 Palestinian communities fully or partly displaced by settler violence. Human Rights Watch says Israeli authorities arm, fund and grant impunity to settlers (August 2026). Human Rights Watch (via Al Jazeera)
A state that wanted to stop this violence could. The West Bank is under Israeli military rule: the army controls every road, checkpoint and closure, and Israeli police and courts have jurisdiction over every settler. Yet attacks are carried out openly, often filmed, often in daylight, often with soldiers escorting the attackers, blocking ambulances or arresting the Palestinians who defend themselves.
When perpetrators face no consequences year after year, impunity stops being a failure and becomes a function. The violence drives Palestinian families off land that is then taken over by outposts the state later legalises, connects to roads and protects with troops. Violence, inaction and legalisation work as one system.
That is why we hold the State of Israel responsible. Its soldiers stand by or join in, its justice system closes the files, and its government funds and legalises the outposts the attacks serve. Together this amounts to state complicity in the colonisation, dispossession and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. In July 2024 the International Court of Justice found Israel's continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory unlawful.
This archive exists so that every attack is recorded with its evidence and its outcome, and the pattern can no longer be denied.