Updated: Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked Palestinian farmers on Monday in the town of Turmus Ayya, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central region and forced them to leave their lands before uprooting many trees.
Local sources reported that the colonizers, accompanied by Israeli occupation soldiers, stormed the Turmus Ayya plain while farmers were plowing their fields and threatened them until they were compelled to withdraw.
Residents said the attack is part of a systematic pattern in the area, where colonizers repeatedly invade agricultural lands, fire live rounds, and assault Palestinians to prevent them from cultivating or accessing their property, particularly near expanding colonies and outposts.
During the invasion of the Palestinian orchards, the colonizers uprooted dozens of olive trees, including ancient trees.
According to the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, the escalation of colonizer violence across the occupied West Bank has already resulted in the displacement of no fewer than 79 Palestinian Bedouin communities, either partially or entirely.
These communities include 814 families and more than 4,700 residents, marking one of the largest waves of forced displacement in a short period.
The Commission emphasized that these attacks occur with direct military protection, forming an integrated policy aimed at emptying rural Palestinian areas to facilitate colonial expansion.
Farmers and herding communities in the Ramallah district — as well as areas around occupied Jerusalem, Hebron, and the Jordan Valley — continue to face repeated assaults, land seizures, crop destruction, and armed intimidation designed to sever their connection to their land.
Human rights groups warn that the ongoing campaign of colonizer violence, combined with military enforcement, constitutes a clear pattern of forced population transfer, prohibited under international law, and threatens to reshape the demographic landscape of the occupied West Bank.
