Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out multiple attacks on Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, targeting Bedouin families, agricultural lands, and public roads.
In the Jericho district in the northeastern West Bank, colonizers attacked the Halaq al‑Rumman Bedouin community west of the city.
Hassan Mleihat, general supervisor of the Al‑Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouins, stated that the colonizers attempted to break into one of the homes inside the community, terrifying women and children.
He added that these repeated assaults pose a direct threat to the safety and security of Bedouin families and deepen their daily suffering under already harsh living conditions.
In the southern West Bank, groups of colonizers began expanding a road that links the areas of Ashkara and Susiya in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
Local residents said the expansion is part of an effort to seize the road and prevent Palestinians from using it, further tightening movement restrictions in an area already surrounded by colonies and military installations.
Meanwhile, in the Ramallah district in the central West Bank, colonizers released their livestock in the Wadi ‘Imar area on lands belonging to the village of Al‑Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah.
Residents reported that the animals were intentionally driven onto Palestinian agricultural property, damaging crops and grazing areas in an attempt to pressure villagers and facilitate future land takeover.
These incidents form part of a broader escalation of colonizer violence across the occupied West Bank, carried out under the protection of Israeli forces and aimed at displacing Palestinian communities, restricting movement, and expanding colonial control over Palestinian land.
Late on Tuesday night, Israeli colonizers attacked the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, bulldozing a key road and roaming provocatively between Palestinian homes.
On Monday evening, Israeli colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks across several areas Nablus and occupied Jerusalem, injuring Palestinians, blocking roads, and attempting to provoke confrontations under the protection of Israeli forces.
On Saturday at dawn, Israeli colonizers attempted to set fire to a Palestinian home in the village of Duma.
On Sunday night, Israeli occupation forces and paramilitary colonizers invaded the Khirbet Shu’ab al-Batem Bedouin community in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part, storming several Palestinian homes, assaulting residents, and deliberately smashing and vandalizing household belongings.
On Saturday, Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank, assaulting and injuring Palestinian civilians, attempting to break into homes, blocking roads, and damaging property in multiple districts. Earlier, the colonizers killed a Palestinian near Ramallah.
On Saturday evening, Israeli colonizers shot and killed a Palestinian young man after invading the village of Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that the young man, Ali Majed Hamadna, 23, was killed by Israeli colonizers in the village of Deir Jarir.
Early at dawn on Saturday, a group of Israeli paramilitary colonizers invaded the village of Al‑Minya, southeast of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, and used a high‑intensity floodlight to illuminate Palestinian homes.
On Saturday at dawn, Israeli paramilitary colonizers attempted to set fire to a Palestinian home in the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, early Saturday at dawn, in a new attack targeting a community that has faced repeated arson attempts over the years.
According to The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, colonizers carried out 497 attacks during March, concentrated in:
- Nablus: 113 attacks
- Hebron: 110 attacks
- Ramallah and al‑Bireh: 90 attacks
The Commission documented:
- 256 acts of property vandalism
- 51 cases of seizure and theft of Palestinian-owned property
- Widespread attacks on agricultural land
With direct support from the Israeli military, colonizers uprooted, destroyed, or poisoned 2,286 trees, including 2,121 olive trees, causing extensive damage to Palestinian livelihoods.
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.
