While the global interest remains constant Israel’s war on GazaIsrael is re -drawing the map of the occupied West Bank.

On January 21, just two days after the ceasefire in Gaza, the Israeli army increased its attack through the occupied West Bank, especially in the northern regions. Israeli bulldozers demolished entire residential areas, and forcibly expelled at least 40,000 people from their homes.

For the first time since the second intifada, the Israeli forces re -exodus tanks and air attacks in the West Bank, which is part of an Israeli systematic strategy to change the geography of the West Bank, which paves the way for full annexation.

This report, which was produced by the Facts Examination Agency, is based on United Nations data, satellite images, and maps to reveal how this happens.

The occupied West Bank is at a glance

The West Bank, which is called religion in Arabic, is West of the Jordan RiverAnd that she gets from her name.

Along with occupied East Jerusalem, it covers an area of ​​5655 square meters (2,183 square meters), making it about 15 times larger than Gaza or almost the same size as Dilayer.

Since 1967, Israel has it It occupied the West Bank militarilyThe Palestinians are subjected to Inspection pointsMy confusion Arrestshouse Hack operationsLand Seizuresand colony Expansion and repeated RaidsStrongly restrict each aspect of their lives.

The West Bank is home to about 3.3 million Palestinians. It is divided into 11 governors, with Hebron, or Hebron in Arabic, as it is the most populated in about 842,000 population. Jerusalem follows 500,000, Naples with 440,000, Ramallah and Al -Luria with 377,000 and two and 360,000.

About 700,000 Israelis live in illegal settlements on the Palestinian territories.

Rising attacks before October 7

The deadly attacks on the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank continued for years.

Since the systematic documents began in 2008, United Nations data show that at least 1896 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers.

By October 6, 2023-a few hours before the flood-dumped floods-the death toll in 2023 increased to 198, exceeding the total in 2022, making it the most bloody year at that time.

Since October 7, 2023, the number of attacks has increased.

Over the past 17 months, more than 900 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank. More than half of them were Jenin and Tolkram.

Amnesty International Described This violence as “brutally”, referring to the illegal killings, the incompatible use of deadly force, and the deliberate denial of the medical care of the wounded – all of this is revealed because global attention remains installed on Gaza.

Why is the northern West Bank targeting?

It targeted the continuous military incursion in Israel, which it calls “iron operation”, the northern governments of Jenin and Tolkram.

These conservatives have fewer Israeli settlements from the rest of the West Bank and they have long been centers of Palestinian resistance, a historical factor that has annexed them. In response, Israel has conducted systematic raids and a large-scale demolition in these areas, with the aim of suppressing the resistance and establishing full control-part of a broader strategy to tighten its grip on the entire West Bank.

Refugee camps in particular were targeted. Since October 2023, the Tulkarem Camp of Refugees, the second largest in the West Bank, has witnessed the destruction of 205 structures, including homes, commercial buildings and agricultural infrastructure, followed by 174 structures in Nour Shams Camp and 144 in the Jenin camp. The peak occurred in Jenin in August 2024, when 37 structures were demolished in one month.

According to peace now, an Israeli non -governmental organization (NGO) was created, in 2024, 48 new sites of settlement were created in the West Bank.

Even before the war, the expansion of the settlement was accelerating. In 2023, 31 new settlement sites were created, with only 21 months appearing between February and July – before October 7.

Settlement violence: an informal weapon of displacement

The settlers’ attacks have become a daily event in the West Bank, especially in rural areas near the outposts. The settlers banned roads to Palestinian societies, which hindered access to basic services and ways to live. In some cases, they destroyed water sources, which reduced the vital resources of Palestinian grazing societies.

Certificates from the village of Khairat Zanota describe the south of the West Bank from homes and water sources that are destroyed, forcing the residents to flee. In Naples, eight families (51 people) were forcibly displaced under the threat of weapons.

A report issued by the Israeli Human Rights Organization, which analyzed 1,664 investigation into the violence of the settlers against the Palestinians between 2005 and September 2023, that:

• 94 percent of cases were closed without accusation.
• Only 3 percent led to convictions.
• In at least 80 percent of cases, investigations were closed due to the alleged inability to identify the suspects or collect sufficient evidence.

The study highlighted the deep lack of confidence in the enforcement of Israeli law among the Palestinians, as 58 percent of Palestinian victims chose in 2023 not to report police crimes. Bartheem, another group of Israeli human rights, described the violence of settlers as an “unofficial Israel tool” to expel the Palestinians, while not being accountable to benefit from the culture of impunity.

An illegal attack for the Palestinian territories

A Hamukid report, an Israeli human rights organization, has shown that Israel has quickly intensified its control over the West Bank since October 2023, heading towards full annexation.

This effort is led by Finance Minister Bezallil Soutrich, who recently obtained the position of a newly created minister in the Ministry of Defense, and gave him large -scale powers on civil affairs in the West Bank.

Smotrich, a settler who lives on Palestinian soil outside the illegal settlement of Domain, heads the settlement department, a section within the Israeli Ministry of Defense, responsible for supervising the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements.

In 2024, 24,700 dunams (6,100 acres or 2470 hectares) were classified as “state lands” by the Israeli authorities, exceeding 23,000 dunams attached between 2000 and 2023.

The fastest transfer of Smotrich to planning and demolition authorities from forced displacement to the Palestinians. His administration works with settlers to seize the ground, demolish Palestinian homes, recognize illegal outposts, and increase control of the settlement.

Analysis of satellite images of the northern West Bank

Satellite images analysis from March 12 above Tulkarem and Jenin reveals a widespread destruction and bulldozers by the Israeli army:

• 12.5 km (7.8 miles) of roads were destroyed in the Tolcram and Nour Shams camp.
• 17.5 km (10.9 miles) of road networks were demolished in the Jenin camp.
• Wide damage to buildings in all three camps.

Since October 7, 2023, a bulldozer has been forced at least 523 buildings, which includes many families, nearly 3,000 people of their homes, including:

• Tulkarem Camp: 1070 people were displaced after 205 buildings were demolished.
• Nour Shams Camp: 965 people were displaced after the destruction of 174 structures.
• Jenin Camp: 960 people were displaced after the demolition of 144 structures.

According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRO), displacement has doubled in recent months, with the latest military operation that raises the largest wave of Palestinian displacement in the West Bank since 1967, as more than 40,000 people have been forced to flee their homes.

These figures refer to the strategy of dismantling Palestinian societies, as their presence in the West Bank is a demographic challenge for Israel.

New photos and reports shed light on the scale of the destruction in Jenin, Tolkrim and Nour Shams – in the entire neighborhoods to ruins, forced thousands to flee and the fabric of Palestinian society under systematic attack.

A unique pattern was identified in Jenin, which was not noticed in Tolcimm and his camp. The Israeli army built 14 earthen checkpoints surrounding the camp, as military vehicles were placed near some of these barriers.

In addition, since October 2023, the Israeli army has imposed sharp restrictions on the movement on the Palestinians, with 793 checkpoints by November 2024, 60 percent of them in Hebron, Nablus and Ramallah – which hinders medical access, and commercial communities and isolation disruption.

Open calls to annex and displace

Despite the rapid expansion of the settlement, Israel is facing a major demographic challenge, as the generated product between the Palestinians is still in the West Bank, and Gaza and Israel remain higher than the Israelis who live in Israel and the occupied West Bank, although the population numbers are now equal.

To confront this, the Israeli policy is increasingly focused on reducing the Palestinian presence in strategic sensitive areas, and framing the displacement as a security necessity and a “human” solution.

This strategy is clear in the data of Israeli officials. In March 2025, Defense Minister Israel Jaff Katz motive Illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank as “necessary to protect Israeli cities”, while media figures such as Gideon Docov The name The forced removal of the Palestinians from both Palestine, “the only human solution”, described the Palestinians as a “fatal nation”.

“Fighting for Life” campaign He repeated this message with the slogan “No future in Palestine”, which encourages what he called “voluntary migration”.

Meanwhile, Mamir Masry, Professor of Political Geography at the Hebrew University of Al -Quds, He said On the social media platform X that the inclusion of the West Bank is the “greatest Zionist achievement since 1967”, describing it as a historical opportunity that should not be missed.

On the other hand, a policy paper In 2025-2026, the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) warned that annexation unilaterally would deepen the global isolation of Israel, and push it towards one fact in one country where the Jews risk becoming a minority, and contradicting the basic Zionist ideology.