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* On 2 May, settlers from the Susiya settlement, to the southeast of Yatta, renewed their attacks against the farmers from the Palestinian village of Susiya, as has often happened in the last days. Five armed settlers stopped the farmer, Khaleel Muslem Khalaila, along with another three farmers for three hours, while they were working their land in the Wadi Juhiasha area to the south of the mentioned settlement. The settlers claimed that the land is for the settlement. Later the soldiers came and obliged the settlers to release the farmers. Khalaila reports that he has 170 dunam of land in the location and the settlers started to prevent him from working five years ago. Many farmers from the same village also face such aggressions.

* On 11 May, around 20 settlers, some of them armed, from Pnei Hever to the south- east of Bani Na'eem village, prevented the farmers of the village from entering their land, which is located near the settlement. The settlers claimed that this land was confiscated and became part of the settlement. Recently the settlers fenced part of this land which belongs to the Hujooj, Mowasi Abu Morra and Id'as families. Almost every week farmers, internationals and Israeli activists come to protest against the settlers aggressions there.

* On 14 May, the settlers who occupied the Rajabi building two month ago, which is located to the west of the Kiryat Arba settlement in al-Ras area renewed their attacks against the residents who live near the building. The settlers arrived in the afternoon and stoned and beat Fadi Majdi Ja'bari, aged 22, and Mahdi Majdi Ja'bari, aged 20, and 52-year-old Fatima Mansour Ja'bari. The settlers asked the residents not to use the main road very close to the building, which means that they want not only to occupy the building but also to control the movement of the residents in the area.

* On 16 May, the Israeli military continued the preparation of the works to build the separation Wall around Efrata settlement to the south of Bethlehem. Khaled Azza, the chairman of the Popular Committee Against the Settlements in Bethlehem said that till now 130 dunams were damaged for the wall, and that all this land was planted with grapes. Most of the land belongs to the Abu Sowai family from the Artas village to the south of Bethlehem. He added that the goal is to expand the settlement and to build the separation wall around the mentioned settlement, isolating in this way many villages to the south of Bethlehem, like Marah Rabah, Joret Sham'a and Ma'sara. The people in those villages will be forced to use other roads, leading to longer travel times, instead of the normal road that lead to Bethlehem, which will be closed by the building the wall.

* On 1 June, settlers from Kiryat Arba prevented internationals and resident not to work in the land to the west of the settlement. The residents and the internationals wanted to prepare the land for planting it with trees next year, but the settlers forced them to leave and also stoned some journalists who came to cover the event. The journalist Abed Alhafeez Hashlamoon was beaten and the settlers tried to confiscate his camera.   

* On 23 June, settlers from the Tekoa settlement to the southeast of Bethlehem, burned 300 dunam of land planted with olive trees and wheat. The land belongs to farmers from the Tuku village and is located near the settlement. No'man Jaber, the mayor of the village, said that this action is aimed to take the land and expand the settlement, and that it is just one of the numerous attacks perpetrated against the population of the area. The settlers forced the farmers not to work in their land, which is often used for feeding the goats and that is located in a large area to the south of the village.

* On 29 June, settlers from Ramot Yishai renewed their attacks and aggressions against the residents in Tel Rumeida . The house of Tayseer Abi Aisha was stoned. No one injured.

* On 22 June, settlers from the Ma'on settlement to the southeast of Yatta, took over 13 dunam belonging to the Jabareen family from Yatta. The settlers claimed that this land is part of the Avigal settlement outpost and they brought three mobile houses to the land. On the same day, settlers from different settlements to the east of Yatta closed the road that links between Toba and Tuwani villages. The settlers gathered in the road and forced the resident not to use it, then later they put large boulders there in order to close it.

Nablus and North of West Bank

* On 10 May, many pigs from Ariel settlement, on the north of the West Bank, attacked agriculture fields in Salfit town. The farmer Khaleel Amran reports that the pigs attacked and damaged part of his wheat field and other fields owned by other farmers. This is not the first time that the settlers let their pigs attack the field:  every year in this season they faced to such aggressions and made a lot of complains to the Israeli polic,e but no positive responses were given, just promises.

* On 13 May, settlers from the Rotem settlement in the Tubas District, started working to build two new settlement roads in Wadi Maleh. The roads are being built on the land that was confiscated four years ago belonging to many families from Wadi Maleh village. Around 40 dunam were confiscated for this purpose, in addition to more land on both sides of the roads that link the mentioned settlement with the land that they confiscated four years ago.

* On 5 June, two settlers from the Anabta settlement, to the east of Tulkarem, came with their car and burnt fields of olive trees from the Rameen village. According to the farmer, Sabri Abed Alazeez, 80 duman were destroyed by the fire. The attack happened in the afternoon, and the fire- brigade came from Tulkarem and stopped the fire. The land targeted belongs to Awad Hamdan, Sadeq Saleh Beseeso and Sami Abed Elazeez Salman.

* On 11 June, a settler who was driving his car very quickly on the junction of Howwara village in Nablus district, ran over a 12-year-old child, Qassam Sa'eed Dumaidi, from the village. The child was seriously injured. An Israeli military jeep came and took the child to an Israeli hospital. The mayor of the village, Mansour Dumaidi, said that many incidents like this one happened on this junction, where the settlers drive at a very high speed, because the settlers’ road is really close to the houses of the village.

* On 14 June, a group of settlers who came back to the Homesh settlement in the north of West Bank, which was evacuated in 2005, cut the water pipes that supply Selt Daher village to the south of Jenin. When men from the Palestinian Water Authority came to return the water flow, tens of settlers attacked them and threw stones at them and their cars. The mayor of the village, Saleh Hantoli, said that these actions and others that the settlers perpetrate against the Palestinians, are taking place within sight of soldiers, who don’t prevent these acts of aggression.

* On 14 June, some settlers burnt 20 olive trees located inside the separation wall in the Far'oon village south of Tulkarem. The Israeli soldiers who were at the gate of the wall, prevented the resident from entering and stopping the fire. Abid Alkareem Omar, the mayor of the village, said that 15 settlers arrived, stopped their cars and went out of them starting to burn the trees. “When we knew it we went to the place to stop the fire but the soldiers on the gate prevented us from entering the gate” said Alkareem. The targeted area is called al-Kherab and the trees belong to Kamel Abu Ateyya and Abu Hadya.

* On 21 June, settlers from the Rotem settlement in the Tubas District, expanded the fence of the settlement, confiscating around 30 additional dunam. 

* On 22 June, settlers from the Amiad outpost near the Qaryut village uprooted 300 olive trees belonging to different families from the village. They also took some of these trees to the outpost to plant it there. This outpost was established 1998 and it is located two kilometers from the Shvut Rachel settlement.