Israeli occupation forces abducted three Palestinians on Sunday after illegal paramilitary colonizers rammed their vehicle near the village of al-Zuwaidin, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank.
Activist Osama Makhamra said colonizers from the recently established “Shimon” illegal colonialist outpost, built on lands belonging to al-Zuwaidin in the eastern Yatta desert, drove into a car carrying three Palestinians at the village entrance, causing damage to the vehicle.
Makhamra added that following the incident, which was deliberately caused by the colonizers, Israeli soldiers stormed the area and abducted the three young men: Najeh T’eimat, Naif Ali T’eimat, and Wael T’eimat.
Even if the case had been a mere traffic accident, the soldiers did not investigate or involve the Israeli police, but instead chose to abduct the Palestinians—underscoring the discriminatory enforcement Palestinians face under occupation.
The case reflects the growing pattern of coordinated colonizer violence and military enforcement across the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians face both direct attacks by armed colonizers and subsequent punitive measures by the army.
On Saturday, Israeli colonizers invaded the al-Khalayel area of al-Mughayyir village, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, on Saturday, poisoning a flock of sheep, killing three.
At dawn on Friday, Israeli colonizers carried out a surge of assaults against Palestinians and their belongings in multiple parts of the occupied West Bank.
In Nablus, in northern West Bank, colonizers set fire to six tourism villas under construction on Mount Tarouja, between the villages of Al‑Lubban al‑Sharqiya and Ammuriya.
Colonizers also attacked a plant nursery in the village of Deir Sharaf, west of Nablus, owned by Nasser Nasser, destroying and damaging its crops.
On Wednesday morning, Illegal Israeli colonizers vandalized a Palestinian vehicle in the village of Taybeh, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, and looted construction materials from a home under construction in the northern town of Turmus Ayya.
On Wednesday evening, Israeli occupation forces invaded the al-Hathroura community, storming several tents and abducting three Palestinian residents from the Arab al-Ara’ra.
Just days earlier, a group of colonizers, accompanied by Israeli occupation forces, demolished several homes in the community, assaulted residents and abducted three young Palestinian men.
The Bedouin community has faced repeated attacks aimed at forcing them to leave, clearing the way for full control of their land.
On Thursday evening, Israeli colonizers carried out a number of attacks against Palestinian citizens in the governorates of Qalqilia, Nablus, and Ramallah.
According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority, colonizers carried out 766 attacks in October alone, concentrated in the governorates of Ramallah and al-Bireh, Nablus, and Hebron.
These repeated assaults highlight a systematic campaign of serious violations designed to dismantle Palestinian livelihoods, intimidate communities, and entrench illegal colonial expansion in violation of international law.
All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits collective punishment and acts of terror against civilian populations.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory”.
Articles 53 and 147, prohibit the destruction of civilian property and classify pillage as a war crime.
