At least nine Palestinian civilians were injured on Saturday, including one shot in the head, when illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, launched a coordinated attack on the town of Huwwara, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
Local sources said one of the wounded suffered a serious gunshot wound to the head, while a member of the Huwara Municipality was struck in the foot by live‑fire shrapnel. four additional civilians were beaten by colonizers during the assault, and four others suffered the effects of tear‑gas inhalation fired by Israeli forces.
Witnesses reported that colonizers surrounded a resident inside a sheep barn, while armed colonizers and Israeli soldiers triggered confrontations throughout the town, including the firing of live ammunition.
The colonizers smashed the windows of several vehicles and stole a car, a bicycle, and approximately 35 sheep belonging to local families.
Rana Abu Haniya, head of public relations at the Huwara Municipality, confirmed that dozens of colonizers attacked the municipal building and several homes, carrying out direct assaults on property and residents. She described the attack as organized, large‑scale, and fully shielded by Israeli forces.
The attacks in Huwwara were still underway at the time of this report, with colonizers and Israeli forces widening their assault across multiple neighborhoods, reflecting a sharp and deliberate escalation in violations against the town’s residents, municipal facilities, and civilian property.
They come amid a sharp escalation of colonizer violence across the northern West Bank, where armed groups of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers—operating with full military escort—have intensified attacks on Palestinian communities, farmland, and civilian infrastructure.
In a related incident, several colonizers invaded the village of Einabus, south of Nablus, stormed multiple homes, carried out provocative acts, and stole several sheep before withdrawing.
ِAlso, Palestinian residents confronted another attack by Israeli colonizers in the village of ‘Asira al‑Qibliya, south of Nablus.
Abdul‑Qader Makhlouf, head of the village council, said the colonizers attacked the outskirts of the village and attempted to damage a concrete factory in the area, but the residents confronted them and forced them back.
