Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out multiple attacks across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, targeting education staff, agricultural land, and residential areas in Tubas in the northeastern West Bank and Ramallah in the central West Bank.
Local officials warned that the incidents reflect a continuing rise in organized colonizer violence carried out under the protection of Israeli forces.
In Tubas, a group of Israeli colonizers assaulted two employees from the Directorate of Education.
Director Azmi Balawna said the attackers targeted the school services officer at Ibziq School and the directorate’s driver, smashing the windows of the official vehicle.
Ibziq School has faced repeated colonizer attacks, creating fear among students and staff and disrupting its ability to operate safely.
Also in Tubas, Israeli colonizers invaded Palestinian lands and uprooted several fruit‑bearing olive trees in the Khirbet Yarza area.
Local council head Mokhles Masa’id said the trees belonged to resident Salem Masa’id and were deliberately destroyed as part of escalating colonizer attacks on the community.
Khirbet Yarza has faced continuous assaults by colonizers, including attacks on residents, livestock, and agricultural property.
In Ramallah in the central West Bank, colonizers invaded the northern outskirts of the town of Turmus Ayya.
Media sources said several colonizers entered the area and positioned themselves along the town’s edge. No confrontations were reported, but residents described the invasion as part of a pattern of intimidation and territorial pressure.
Turmus Ayya has been repeatedly targeted in recent years, including arson attacks, assaults on farmers, and attempts to seize agricultural land.
Local communities report that colonizer attacks have intensified in recent weeks, with repeated assaults on farmers, schools, and rural hamlets across the occupied West Bank.
Residents say the violence is part of a broader effort to pressure Palestinian communities, seize land, and expand settlement outposts.
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.
