Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers conducted multiple attacks on Palestinian shepherds and Bedouin communities across the occupied West Bank on Sunday.
Local activist Osama Makhamra said a group of colonizers assaulted Issa Al‑Hamamda while he was herding his livestock near his home in Khirbet At‑Tabban in the South Hebron Hills (Masafer Yatta), near Hebron in the southern West Bank. The attackers attempted to seize several animals before residents intervened.
Makhamra added that colonizers conducted provocative patrols in Wadi Al‑Jawaya, assaulted residents and shepherds, and released their livestock around the homes of the Abu Sabha family in Khirbet Al‑Fakhit, causing damage to property and cultivated land.
Colonizers also chased shepherds in Khirbet Maghayir Al‑‘Abeed, Isfey, and the Huwara area, preventing them from reaching grazing areas.
In a separate large‑scale incident, colonizers forced 33 Palestinian families to flee the Shallal Al‑Auja Bedouin community north of Jericho in the northeastern West Bank, raising the total number of families displaced from the area in recent weeks to seventy-nine.
The Al‑Baydar Human Rights Organization said continuous harassment, threats, and physical assaults had made life untenable for the families.
Those displaced on Sunday included twenty families from the Rashaida tribe, originally from Yatta, and thirteen families from the Ghawanma tribe.
The organization noted that the latest displacement followed the forced removal of twenty farming families from Yatta the previous day and 26 Ka’abna families last Thursday.
Violations included colonizers grazing livestock on Palestinian agricultural land, destroying fruit trees and crops, and conducting repeated intimidation campaigns aimed at exhausting and uprooting Bedouin communities.
Al‑Baydar said the pattern of attacks reflects a deliberate strategy targeting Bedouin communities in the northern Jordan Valley, aiming to create unlivable conditions and impose a coercive colonial reality with severe economic and social consequences.
The organization called on international bodies and human rights institutions to take urgent action to protect Bedouin communities and prevent further displacement and attacks on Palestinian land and property.
In related news, Israeli occupation forces bulldozed agricultural land in the town of Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, on Sunday, as part of an ongoing campaign of land clearing around a recently established colonialist outpost west of the town.
In addition, the Jerusalem Governorate said on Sunday that Israel’s “Planning and Construction Committee” in occupied Jerusalem is preparing to advance two major colonial construction plans that would significantly alter the landscape of East Jerusalem and further detach it from the rest of the occupied West Bank.
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.
