How many West Bank killings by settlers occurred in November 2025 and where did they happen?
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Executive summary
Available reporting in the supplied sources does not present a single, definitive tally of killings in the West Bank by settlers in November 2025; UN and humanitarian updates document a sharp rise in West Bank fatalities in November — with OHCHR and Reuters reporting that Israeli forces (not settlers) killed 21 Palestinians by late November and UN OCHA counting multiple killings in late November that brought 2025 totals to 227 — while separate items document settler attacks and deaths across 2025 without isolating a precise November settler-only death toll [1] [2] [3].
1. November’s fatalities: UN agencies count many deaths but usually group perpetrators
UN human rights and humanitarian agencies reported a surge of killings in November but typically aggregate deaths by “Israeli forces and settlers” rather than attributing each November death exclusively to settlers. OHCHR said that since 7 October 2023 up until 13 November 2025 at least 1,017 Palestinians had been killed in the occupied West Bank by Israeli security forces and settlers [1]. A related OHCHR note up to 27 November 2025 put that total at 1,030 [4]. Reuters quoted the UN saying Israeli security forces had killed 21 Palestinians so far in November, nine of them children — that figure refers to Israeli security force action rather than settler-only killings [2].
2. OCHA’s operational count: month-end context, not settler-only tally
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) documented that between 25 November and 1 December Israeli forces killed four Palestinians, bringing the 2025 total to 227 killed by Israeli forces or settlers between 1 January and 1 December; OCHA also recorded 178 olive-harvest-related settler attacks in October–November and 1,680 settler attacks across 2025 — but OCHA does not isolate exactly how many November fatalities were caused solely by settlers in the supplied note [3].
3. High-profile November incidents often involved security forces, not settlers
Several of the most widely reported late-November killings — including the shooting of two Palestinian men in Jenin on 27–28 November that UN officials described as an “apparent summary execution” — involved Israeli border police or soldiers in operations, and those incidents were condemned by OHCHR and covered by UN News and Reuters [5] [6] [2]. International outlets like BBC and Le Monde likewise covered killings in Jenin and related military raids in late November, again linking them to Israeli forces [7] [8].
4. Settler violence: high frequency of attacks, limited public attribution for killings
Multiple sources document a surge in settler violence in November 2025 — arson, attacks during olive harvest, and property destruction — and note fatalities linked to settler violence earlier in 2025. The Hill and OCHA reported more than 1,200 settler attacks in the first nine months of 2025 and said settlers had killed at least seven Palestinians that year; Wikipedia and other pieces reiterate heavy settler violence through 2025. However, the provided sources do not give a clear, sourced count of how many West Bank killings in November 2025 were committed specifically by settlers versus Israeli security forces [9] [3] [10].
5. Why a single November settler-only number is not in the record supplied
The reporting here splits responsibility categories (Israeli forces vs. settlers) in aggregate totals or focuses on individual high-profile incidents. OHCHR and OCHA provide combined tallies and incident-based descriptions but do not publish a consolidated, source-cited figure in these excerpts that counts only settler-perpetrated killings for November 2025; Reuters and UN News highlighted security-force killings in late November [4] [3] [2].
6. Competing narratives and investigative gaps to watch
Humanitarian and rights bodies (OHCHR, OCHA) frame the trend as a surge in both Israeli security and settler violence with concerns about impunity [4] [3]. Israeli authorities and media often emphasize security threats and attacks on Israelis; those perspectives appear in wider reporting but are not included in the supplied excerpts. The lack of a clear November settler-only death total in these sources reflects both differing classification practices and gaps in publicly available, incident-level attribution [1] [3].
7. What the available sources do answer and what they do not
Available sources confirm a marked rise in West Bank violence in November 2025, document specific late-November killings by Israeli security forces (notably Jenin), and record hundreds of settler attacks across October–November — but they do not provide a single, verified number of West Bank killings by settlers for November 2025 or a granular list of locations for settler-perpetrated fatalities in that month [5] [3] [2].
If you want, I can extract every named November 2025 death in these sources and list the location and reported perpetrator for each incident cited here; that would show how many were explicitly tied to settlers in the provided reporting.