UN: 5,900 West Bank residents displaced from their homes by settler violence over past 3 years

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that 5,900 people in the West Bank were displaced from their homes due to attacks by extremist settlers between January 2023 and April 2026.

The agency also says it documented 5,336 settler attacks during that period that resulted in damage to people or property.

Accompanying the announcement, the UN publishes a map showing the geographic distribution of the incidents. According to the map, most of the displacement occurred in the Jordan Valley, particularly in the area between Ramallah and Jericho, and in the South Hebron Hills. Those displaced are primarily Palestinians and Bedouins living in small communities consisting of several dozen families, rather than in villages or towns.

According to the UN, 45 communities were completely displaced and 72 were partially displaced.

The figures do not include the tens of thousands of Palestinians displaced after the IDF took control of the refugee camps in Jenin and Tulkarem in counterterror operations since the beginning of 2025. In March, the UN said that a total of 36,000 Palestinians were displaced due to either settler violence or Israeli military operations in the West Bank since 2024.