The European Union is planning to launch a program to support Palestinian victims of settler violence in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority confirmed on Monday.
“In coordination with the government, the European Union will launch a program to support victims of settler terrorism,” Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa announced in a statement.
A source in the office of the EU representative in the Palestinian territories told Agence France-Presse that the EU will support civil society organizations with protective equipment, “such as fences to Palestinian communities facing attacks from settlers,” and a protective presence.
“It’s a project that the EU is developing with local and international NGOs, with the aim of documenting attacks on Palestinians by violent Israeli settlers, and to support the communities that are victims of such attacks,” the office of the EU representative in the Palestinian Territories told AFP.
The source claimed the EU will spend around €6 million on the project.
Last week, the European External Action Service (EEAS) condemned both the increasing number of settler attacks witnessed in the West Bank in recent months and “Israel’s unilateral actions aiming to expand its presence in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion of 19 July 2024 declared to be unlawful.”
Attacks by extremist Jewish settlers against both Palestinians and Israeli security forces in the West Bank rose by 27% in 2025, according to figures presented by the IDF in January.
Of the attacks recorded by the Israeli NGO Yesh Din, the group claimed that only 3% resulted in prosecutions.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights stated in March, following the murder of a Palestinian by extremist settlers, that there have been more than six settler attacks daily since the latest Iran war started, displacing 1700 Palestinians.
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