Data, January 1, 2026 - May 15, 2026 – The West Bank

Adi Ronen Argov
May 15
6 min read

Killed Palestinians

1. During the first two weeks of May 2026, killed:

Children	Adults
2	6

2. During April 2026, killed:

Children	Women	Men
5	1	6

3. Since the beginning of 2026, 63 people have been killed, including:

Children	Women	Elderly	Prisoners	Journalists
13	5	2	3	1

‣ 17 bodies are being held by the military;

‣ 17 were killed by colonists or during colonist raids.

4. Since October 7, 2023, 954 people have been killed, including:

Children	Women	Elderly	Paramedics	Journalists	Prisoners
217	19	18	2	1	39

‣ 279 bodies are being held by the military;

‣ 17 were killed while allegedly attempting to cross the Separation Wall ("livelihood fatalities");

‣ Since the beginning of 2025, Israel has killed an average of one child every week in The West Bank.

Killed Israelis

1. No Israeli casualties during 2026.

Injured Palestinians

1. During the first two weeks of May, injured:

Children	Adults
20	120

2. During April, injured:

Children	Adults
34	176

3. Since the beginning of 2026, 1,109 people have been injured.

4. Since October 7, 2023, 12,775 people have been injured.

‣ 290 were injured while attempting to cross the Separation Wall;

‣ According to UNICEF, since the beginning of 2025 (through the end of March 2026), 850 children in The West Bank have been injured;

‣ Breakdown by cause of injury (as of March 30, 2026):

Violence	Teargas	Live fire	Shrapnel	Stone throwing	Rubber bullets
35%	30%	22%	7%	4%	2%
Beatings, batons and rifle butt strikes.

Injured Israelis

1. Since the beginning of the year through April 22, 2026, 20 people have been injured.

Palestinian Prisoners

‣ Since 1967, Israel has detained or arrested 20% of The West Bank population.

1. Arrests:

‣ Since the beginning of 2026, 1,670 people have been arrested (as of March 31, 2026), including:

Minors	Women
120	67

‣ Since October 7, 2023, 22,987 people have been arrested (as of April 30, 2026), including approximately 1,800 children, some as young as 10. This represents an 83% increase compared to the equivalent period before October 7, 2023.

2. Data on child arrests (source: Euro-Med Monitor):

‣ During detention, among detained minors:

No reason for arrest provided	Beaten during detention	Arrested from home during the night
89%	73%	65%

‣ During interrogation, among interrogated minors:

Without family present	No translation of documents	Stripped during interrogation	Threatened
94%	73%	69%	46%
	Forced to sign Hebrew forms without knowing the language		Threats against family members

‣ During imprisonment, among imprisoned minors:

Beaten	Held in solitary confinement	No adequate nutrition	Administrative detainees
86%	60%	58%	51%
	Prolonged periods of isolation		Without charges or legal proceedings

3. Prisoners:

‣ As of early May 2026, 9,384 Palestinians are imprisoned in Israeli detention facilities, including:

Prisoners serving sentences	Detainees	Administrative detainees	"Unlawful combatants"
1,310	3,415	3,376	1,283
Serving prison sentences	Under legal proceedings	Held without charges or legal proceedings	Held without charges or legal proceedings

‣ Among those imprisoned:

Children	Women
350	86
180 are administrative detainees.	25 are administrative detainees.
	3 are pregnant.
	2 are minors.

‣ 10 new severe reports since the beginning of 2026 regarding attacks on women in Damon Prison.

4. Torture, assaults and abuse:

‣ Severe reports of starvation, physical and psychological torture, sexual assaults, medical neglect, poor hygiene, overcrowding and the spread of skin diseases (The New York Times, Physicians for Human Rights, B'Tselem, Euro-Med Monitor);

‣ Reports of increased use of solitary confinement. In 2024, 4,493 prisoners were placed in isolation - nearly three times the number in 2023. This included 199 children and 25 women (Haaretz, Nir Hasson - Hebrew);

‣ More than half of children aged 12-17 surveyed by Save the Children International reported sexual assault that they experienced or witnessed during imprisonment;

‣ Since October 7, 2023, 39 prisoners have died, including 2 minors.

Colonist Attacks

1. During April 2026, 540 colonist attacks were documented, including:

Harm to people, property or both	Killed	Injured
154	3	113

2. Since the beginning of 2026, 2,016 attacks have been documented, including:

Harm to people, property or both	Attacks on villages, towns and communities
800	220
Average of 6 attacks per day.	107 targeted Bedouin communities.

‣ These attacks resulted in:

Killed	Injured	Displaced from homes
14	490	1,988
	Average of 4 injuries per day.	1,193 (60%) were in the Palestinian Jordan Valley.

‣ The attacks included damage to agricultural infrastructure (field crops, irrigation systems, agricultural buildings), arson attacks on homes and property, beatings, theft of sheep and cattle, shootings, stone throwing, destruction of more than 60 water and sanitation facilities and disruption of water supply for people, livestock and agriculture.

3. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA OPT) documented colonist attacks during 2023-2025.

◦ Results of the attacks:

Harm to people, property or both	Displaced	Trees uprooted	Vehicles damaged
4,575	5,900 people	69,000 trees	2,200 vehicles

◦ Harm to people:

50 killed	4,618 injured
24 killed by colonists	3,022 injured by the military
17 killed by the military during colonist attacks	1,567 injured by colonists
9 cases where it remains undetermined whether colonists or the military were responsible	29 cases where responsibility remains undetermined

‣ Violence peaks in October, during the olive harvest season. October 2025 was the most severe month, with 276 attacks;

‣ 117 communities were displaced. Of those, 45 communities comprising 3,500 people were entirely displaced;

‣ From the beginning of 2025 through the end of April 2026, colonists stole approximately 12,000 sheep and cattle from Palestinians.

4. Government support, construction and development:

‣ 750,000 colonists live in 141 colonies and 224 outposts in The West Bank and East Jerusalem;

‣ The government approved allocation of 1.075 billion shekels for road infrastructure development and access roads to outposts in The West Bank;

‣ A plan to build 60,000 housing units in colonies over three years.

House Demolitions and Displaced Persons

1. During the first two weeks of May:

Structures demolished	Residents displaced
67	55 people, including 34 children

2. Since the beginning of 2026, 449 structures have been demolished. More than 69% of the structures were used for livelihoods (shops, businesses and agricultural structures) and infrastructure (water pumping and irrigation), meaning the impact extends beyond the number of displaced persons.

‣ Reasons for demolition:

Lack of building permits	Collective punishment	Other
427	8	11
		Including "security" reasons.

3. Displacement:

‣ 1,800 residents in Silwan face eviction threats, primarily in the Batn al-Hawa and Al-Bustan neighborhoods. During the past month, 15 apartments were evacuated;

‣ 85 schools across The West Bank are under threat of demolition;

‣ All figures above exclude the 33,362 displaced residents from Jenin refugee camp, Tulkarm refugee camp and Nur Shams refugee camp displaced during a military operation in January-February 2025 and who have still not been allowed to return home.

Movement Restrictions

1. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA OPT) published movement restriction data as of December 2025:

Permanently staffed checkpoints	Partially staffed checkpoints	Iron gates at settlement entrances	Earth mounds	Other
89	218	232	167	219
Always staffed day and night			On agricultural roads or locality entrances	Various movement restriction measures

‣ A total of 925 movement restriction or blockage measures affecting the freedom of movement of 3.4 million people.

◦ Intermittently staffed checkpoints:

Permanently locked iron gates	Intermittent iron gates	Total
62	90	218

◦ Iron gates at locality entrances:

Permanently closed	Total
154	232

‣ 14,000 people are trapped between the Separation Wall and the Green Line and must coordinate all movement in and out of their localities with the military.

2. Prevention of education or access to education:

‣ Following the destruction of Jenin refugee camp, Tulkarm refugee camp and Nur Shams refugee camp in January-February 2025, 1,600 students have still not been integrated into formal educational frameworks due to lack of space in areas to which they were displaced;

‣ In Masafer Yatta, 55 students were blocked from reaching the school in Umm al-Khair and were also attacked by the military with teargas while attempting to reach classes;

‣ In Jerusalem, following the closure of UNRWA educational institutions, 200 students remain without formal educational frameworks.