Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers launched coordinated assaults across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank, on Thursday, detaining residents, seizing buildings, attacking communities, and destroying agricultural property in the South Hebron Hills, eastern Hebron, and the northern Jordan Valley, all under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
In Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, activist Osama Makhamra said that colonizers disguised in Israeli military uniforms stormed Khirbet Saddat ath-Tha‘ala, where they detained numerous residents, beat and abused them, and abducted Mohammad Hammad Makhamra.
He added that colonizers attempted to steal livestock belonging to families in Maghayir al-‘Abeed, Asfi, and Wadi al-Jawaya, after chasing shepherds and attacking homes.
In addition, a colonizer, driving a four-wheeler, chased Palestinian shepherds, forcing them out of grazing ground in Masafer Yatta.
In related news, Israeli soldiers confiscated and burnt a Palestinian car at the northern entrance of ath-Thaheriya town, south of Hebron.
In Khirbet at-Tiwani, another group of colonizers broke and uprooted several olive trees owned by Nasser Abu ‘Obeid, while releasing their livestock into Palestinian agricultural fields and around residential areas, causing extensive crop damage.
Later in the day, colonizers seized two multi‑unit residential buildings in the Jabal Jales area east of Hebron.
Local sources reported that the colonizers raised the Israeli flag atop the buildings and installed the Star of David, taking advantage of an intensified Israeli military presence in the area.
Earlier, Israeli occupation forces had invaded Jabal Jales, imposing a strict closure and curfew on residents. Troops stormed dozens of homes, held families for hours, subjected them to field interrogations, and converted several houses into military posts.
In the northern Jordan Valley, dozens of colonizers attacked Palestinian residents in Hammamat al-Maleh on Thursday night.
Moataz Bisharat, the official responsible for the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission in Tubas, said the colonizers assaulted families in the area as part of a growing pattern of coordinated attacks across the region.
Earlier Thursday, Israeli colonizers attacked the Church of the Visitation on Thursday in the depopulated Palestinian village of Ein Karem in occupied Jerusalem, vandalizing the site and defacing nearby property.
