Published On 5/11/2025
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Last update: 23:42 (Mecca time)
The Jerusalem Governorate warned of a new expansion of the Adam settlement, north of occupied Jerusalem, and said that it contributes to besieging the Palestinian presence, while today, Wednesday, settlers carried out a series of attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and burned olive trees.
The Jerusalem Governorate explained that the occupation authorities issued two tenders to build 356 settlement units in the Adam settlement near the town of Jaba, north of Jerusalem.
The governorate confirmed that this step comes within the policy of settlement expansion with the aim of controlling the northeastern foothills of Jerusalem and besieging the Palestinian presence in order to achieve the so-called “Greater Jerusalem Project.”
Violations at Al-Aqsa and Al-Ibrahimi
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Ministry of Endowments documented a number of Israeli violations of Islamic holy sites in its monthly report issued on Wednesday.
The Ministry said that the occupation forces and settlers stormed the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque 27 times during last October, and the call to prayer in the Ibrahimi Mosque was prevented 96 times, and the mosque was closed for several days.
Groups of settlers storm the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, protected by the Israeli occupation police#Al Jazeera #video pic.twitter.com/hfccoS1mZs
– Al Jazeera Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) November 4, 2025
The Ministry stated that large numbers of settlers performed Talmudic prayers, bowed down, sang, and danced in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa. They also blew the trumpet, carried plant offerings, and dressed as the alleged temple priests.
The report indicated that the right-wing Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque with a number of members of the Knesset (Parliament) on the occasion of the “Joy of the Torah” holiday on October 22.
Army and settler attacks
On the other hand, Palestinians, including an elderly man and a woman, were injured in settler attacks in the south of the occupied West Bank, on Wednesday evening, and a young Palestinian man was injured by bullets from the occupation forces at the separation wall in the town of Al-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said, in a statement, that its crews dealt with two injuries to an elderly man and a woman as a result of settlers’ assault on them in the Masafer Yatta area, and they were transferred to the hospital.
Anatolia Agency quoted eyewitnesses as saying that settlers attacked the Batma gathering in Masafer Yatta, beat Palestinians, destroyed house furniture, and wrote racist slogans in Hebrew.
West Bank: Settlers burn an agricultural facility in Majdal Bani Fadel, south of Nablus#Al Jazeera #News pic.twitter.com/jsiWHElRpr
– Al Jazeera Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) November 5, 2025
Palestinian activist Osama Makhamreh also stated that settlers from the Otniel settlement attacked citizens in the village of Khallet Al-Farra, west of the town of Yatta, south of the city of Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank.
He added that the settlers released their livestock and cows into the vineyards and fruit trees owned by Palestinians, and around the homes, before they assaulted the residents.
In the center of the occupied West Bank, settlers burned olive trees in the Turmus Ayya Plain, northeast of the city of Ramallah, according to what was reported by the Palestinian News Agency (Wafa).
The agency reported that the fire affected a number of fruit trees, causing damage to them and causing losses to Palestinian farmers.
Settlers also burned an agricultural facility in Majdal Bani Fadel, south of Nablus.
Confrontations in Beit Furik
On the other hand, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that confrontations broke out between Palestinians and the occupation forces during the storming of the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus.
Palestinian media broadcast scenes showing occupation soldiers shooting at Palestinian youths.
The moment the occupation soldiers fired bullets at young men during confrontations in the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus. pic.twitter.com/KjX5SGoqVe
– Al-Qastal News (@AlQastalps) November 5, 2025
According to data from the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority, the Israeli army and settlers carried out 766 attacks on citizens, their property, and their sources of livelihood in the West Bank during last October.
The attacks ranged from violent physical assault, arrest campaigns, intimidation in all its forms, and shooting.
These attacks fall within a broad wave of Israeli escalation in the West Bank that has taken place since the start of the Israeli war of annihilation in Gaza in October 2023.
The attacks in the West Bank resulted in the killing of 1,065 Palestinians and the injury of about 10,000 others, in addition to the arrest of more than 20,000 Palestinians, including 1,600 children.