Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers assaulted two Palestinian youths guarding an agricultural well in the Atouf area, southeast of Tubas in the northeastern occupied West Bank, before sabotaging the facility and attacking nearby families.
The colonizers, wearing military‑style uniforms, assaulted the two youths late Thursday night while they were guarding the electricity room of an artesian well belonging to farmer Nazeer Mohammad Bisharat.
Mutaz Bisharat, the Tubas District official for the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, said four colonizers attacked the youths, then stormed the electricity room and tampered with the control panel, shutting down the well’s water pumping system.
He added that the same group invaded the homes of five Palestinian families in the nearby Khirbet ar‑Ras al‑Ahmar community, assaulted residents, destroyed electrical networks, damaged surveillance cameras, and threatened to forcibly expel them within days.
Bisharat further reported that colonizers destroyed sections of the water line supplying homes and agricultural lands east of Atouf, disrupting access to water for both residents and farmland.
The colonizers also invaded Palestinian agricultural lands between the villages of Marka and az-Zawiya, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and roamed the area while provoking the locals.
Similar invasions were reported on Palestinian lands in the towns of Fahma and Kafr Ra’ey, part of the near‑daily violations that have escalated since the reestablishment of the illegal Tirsala colony on Palestinian lands near the town of Jaba’, south of Jenin.
On Friday, Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple invasions across the occupied West Bank, breaking into homes, ransacking property, and abducting Palestinians, while illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers simultaneously attacked Palestinian vehicles and agricultural lands and stole crops.
