Hilltop Youth

(Date of UN designation: 2024-04-19)

Hilltop Youth is a radical youth group consisting of members known for violent acts against Palestinians and their villages in the West Bank. The group establishes unauthorised outposts on hilltops in the West Bank and engages in settler violence through so-called “price tag attacks”. This settler violence, including physical and psychosocial harassment, beatings, murder and demolition of property, against Palestinians and their villages is of a systematic nature and has led to the forcible transfer of entire communities. Hilltop Youth is therefore responsible for serious human rights violations or abuses including torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as well as serious violations or abuses of the right to property and the right to private and family life of Palestinians in the West Bank, which are also of serious concern with regard to the objectives of the common foreign and security policy as set out in Article 21 of the Treaty on European Union.