Six Palestinians—including volunteer medics, journalists, and a local farmer—were injured on Saturday during an assault by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers in the town of Beita, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
Mohammad Hamayel, deputy mayor of Beita, said the colonizers attacked participants in an olive harvesting event on the lands of Jabal Qammas, pelting them with stones.
The assault wounded six individuals: three volunteer medics, three journalists, and one additional civilian.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) confirmed that its teams responded to multiple injuries resulting from severe beatings. Three of the wounded were transferred to hospital for treatment.
Among those injured was Reuters correspondent Raneen Sawafta, who sustained fractures and contusions to various parts of her body and was also hospitalized.
Also Saturday, Israeli colonizers stole olive crops from Palestinian land in the town of Aqraba, located south of Nablus.
The occupied West Bank witnessed an unprecedented surge in violations by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers—during October 2025, marking the highest monthly toll in nearly two decades, the United Nations said.
Israeli settlers stormed a Palestinian home in Hraibat al-Nabi, raiding rooms, assaulting residents, and stealing keys and tools. Just a year ago, they stole over 20 sheep from the same family. pic.twitter.com/AZhjq48DxV
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) November 8, 2025
In the early hours of Saturday morning, Israeli colonizers set fire to a Palestinian home in the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
On Friday, Israeli colonizers demolished residential tents and livestock shelters belonging to Palestinian residents in Khirbet Hamsa, in the northern Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, on Friday.
On Thursday, Israeli colonizers carried out a number of attacks, injuring a child and destroying olive trees, after targeting Palestinians and their property, in the occupied West Bank.
Furthermore, Israeli colonizers invaded the Bedouin community of Al-Hathrawa near Khan al-Ahmar, east of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, and demolished four mobile homes used by local families.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission documented 766 colonizer attacks in October alone, concentrated in the districts of Ramallah and Al-Bireh (195), Nablus (179), and Hebron (126). These included 352 incidents of theft and vandalism targeting Palestinian property and farmland.
Among the victims was Jihad Mohammad Ajaj, 26, from Deir Jarir, who was shot and killed by colonizers in a direct armed assault. His death brings the number of Palestinians killed by colonizer gunfire since the start of 2025 to 14.
Colonizer violence, often carried out with the backing of Israeli occupation forces, also led to the uprooting, burning, and poisoning of over 1,200 olive trees—an emblem of Palestinian heritage and sustenance.
It is worth mentioning that, on Wednesday, Israeli occupation authorities issued two new tenders for the construction of a colonial neighborhood in the illegal colony of Adam (Givat Binyamin), built on stolen Palestinian land northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
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.
