Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, including the burning of a home and vehicle, assaults on Palestinian families, and repeated attempts to invade communities under the protection of Israeli forces.
Local sources in the town of Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah in the central West Bank, reported that dozens of Israeli colonizers invaded the eastern side of the town, set fire to the home of As’ad Tuffaha, and torched the vehicle of resident Rateb al‑Khatib.Residents confronted the attackers and forced them to withdraw. No injuries were reported.
BREAKING: Israeli settlers are attacking the village of Turmus Ayya in the West Bank right now. They locked the door of a house and set it on fire in an attempt to burn the family inside alive, as residents try to break the door open to rescue them. pic.twitter.com/PRotrxlSDq
— Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) April 18, 2026
In the same area, Israeli forces invaded several villages northeast of, while colonizers—accompanied by Israeli soldiers—invaded Turmus Ayya, the nearby village of Abu Falah, and the village of Kafr Malik.
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A member of the Turmus Ayya municipal council, Awad Abu Samra, said colonizers moved into the eastern side of the town and broke into a construction materials company while provoking residents.
In Abu Falah, colonizers attempted to attack the home of resident Mustafa Za’atar before villagers confronted them and pushed them back.
Israeli soldiers also invaded Abu Falah, detained and interrogated several young men, and inspected their ID cards.
The invasion followed an earlier colonizer attack targeting the Bedouin area on the outskirts of the town, where colonizers caused damage to an agricultural shed.
A separate attack took place in the village of Ein Sinya, north of Ramallah in the central West Bank, where a group of colonizers hurled stones at several homes and assaulted residents. One young man was injured and transferred to hospital for treatment.
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Residents said the village has been subjected to repeated colonizer attacks, including attempts to invade areas around homes and assaults on civilians.
In the southern West Bank, an elderly woman was injured when colonizers attacked her and her family in the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron.
Colonizers assaulted residents in the Wadi Khneiss area west of Sa’ir while they were working their land. The attack caused bruising to the elderly woman, identified as Umm Hussein Jabarin, who was transported by Palestinian Red Crescent Society medics to the Riham Dawabsha Health Center in the town. At the same time, Israeli soldiers abducted her sons Hussein, Anas, and Issa Mohammad Jabarin.
HORRIFIC: Israeli settlers attacked the town of Sair in the West Bank, beating an elderly Palestinian woman who has been hospitalized.
The Israeli army arrived later and arrested three of her sons instead of arresting the settlers who attacked her. pic.twitter.com/XmPDAZ8QLa
— Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) April 18, 2026
Israeli soldiers also abducted a Palestinian man from the village of al‑Deirat, while illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded several areas across Masafer Yatta south of Hebron.
Anti‑colonization activist Osama Makhamra said Israeli soldiers abducted Issa Mus‘af as he was plowing his land in al‑Deirat, east of Yatta, before transferring him to an unknown location.
The attack on Rujum Alai and Huwara continues: in recent days, settlers, including Shimon Atiya, have been documented harvesting and stealing crops that Palestinians planted on their private land.
The agricultural thefts, carried out in some cases under the protection of soldiers pic.twitter.com/7901lqPD2V— מחוץ לעדר/ kivsa shchora (@masafering) April 18, 2026
At the same time, colonizers carried out provocative tours in the villages of al‑Rakeez and Shu’ab al‑Batem and in the Tal Ma’in area, destroying agricultural crops belonging to local residents.
Colonizers also attacked shepherds from the Olayan Awad family in the Wadi Abu Shaban area of Masafer Yatta and forced them out of their grazing lands by force, continuing a pattern of pressure aimed at displacing Palestinian communities from their agricultural areas.
In the Bethlehem area of the southern West Bank, colonizers invaded the village of Abu Njeim southeast of the city, positioning themselves in several neighborhoods and provoking residents. Local sources noted that colonizer and military attacks on the village have escalated in recent weeks, including repeated assaults on homes and vehicles.
Later in the evening, colonizers detained several residents in the nearby village of al‑Maniya, also southeast of Bethlehem. The colonizers intercepted the vehicle of resident Anwar Abdul‑Aziz Jabarin, forced the passengers out, and held them for a period of time.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission reported that Israeli soldiers and colonizers carried out a total of 1,819 attacks across the occupied West Bank during the month of March.
The Commission said Israeli forces were responsible for 1,322 of the incidents, while colonizers carried out 497. The highest concentration of attacks occurred in Hebron with 321 incidents, followed by Nablus in the northern West Bank with 315, Ramallah and al‑Bireh with 292, and occupied Jerusalem with 203 attacks—reflecting what the Commission described as a clear pattern of systematic targeting of these areas.
