Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers established a new colonial outpost on Sunday on Palestinian‑owned land between the village of Al‑Lubban ash‑Sharqiya, south of Nablus, and the village of Yasuf, east of Salfit.
The colonizers placed a mobile home in the Wadi Yasuf area, north of Al‑Lubban ash‑Sharqiya, after paving a colonial road that had already seized dozens of dunams of Palestinian land.
The area has been subjected for years to continuous bulldozing and the construction of colonial roads aimed at expanding nearby colonies and seizing additional land for the benefit of the Taffuh and Ariel colonies east of Salfit.
The expansion has particularly targeted lands belonging to Yasuf, Iskaka, and Al‑Lubban ash‑Sharqiya, where Palestinian farmers have faced repeated restrictions, land confiscation, and colonizer violence.
The establishment of the new outpost marks another step in the ongoing effort to create a chain of colonial sites linking existing colonies and tightening control over the central West Bank.
In addition, Israeli occupation forces destroyed a main water line in the town of Sebastia, northwest of Nablus, on Sunday, cutting off water access to dozens of Palestinian homes.
Mohammad Azem, head of the Sebastia Municipality, said the army deliberately damaged the pipeline that supplies homes in the western part of the town, leaving many families without their only source of running water.
The destruction of the water line comes amid a broader pattern of Israeli military and colonizer attacks targeting essential infrastructure across Palestinian communities in the northern West Bank — including repeated assaults on water networks, agricultural roads, solar panels, and livestock structures — all of which deepen the pressure on residents and undermine their ability to remain on their land.
In related news, Israeli colonizers seized the belongings of a Palestinian resident in the Khallet al‑Sidra Bedouin community near the village of Mikhmas, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, on Sunday, and vandalized additional property belonging to local families.
Also, eleven Palestinian families from the Khirbet Yarza area, east of Tubas in the northern Jordan Valley, dismantled their homes and tents on Sunday and began leaving the community after a sharp escalation in attacks by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers.
On Sunday before dawn, a group of illegal Israeli colonizers killed two Palestinian men and injured others, after storming the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah in the central part of the occupied West Bank. A third man died after suffering the toxic effects of tear gas inhalation, when at least five others sustained injuries.
The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the slain men as Thaer Farouq Hamayel, 24, and Fares Jawdat Hamayel, 57, adding that the men were killed after Israeli settlers shot them both in the head with live ammunition after infiltrating Abu Falah village.
On Saturday, Israeli colonizers killed 28-year-old Amir Mohammad Shanaran and critically injured his brother during an attack in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank.
In related news, Israeli colonizers shot and killed two Palestinian brothers and wounded three others on Monday, after invading the village of Qaryout, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
Mohammad Taha Abdel-Majeed Muammar, 51, was killed after settlers shot him in the head, while his brother Fahim Taha Abdul Majeed Muammar, 48, was killed after he sustained a live gunshot wound to the pelvis.
On Tuesday, armed paramilitary settlers shot two Palestinian young men with live ammunition after infiltrating the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron.
Since the beginning of the Israeli military aggression against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, occupation forces and settlers have killed 1124 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, including 232 children and 24 women.
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.
