Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks across several areas of the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, assaulting Palestinian families, destroying agricultural property, expanding colonial outposts, and seizing vehicles.
In Tubas in the northeastern West Bank, colonizers wearing military uniforms invaded the Ras al‑Ahmar area southeast of the city, assaulted three Palestinian families, and threatened to forcibly expel them from the community.
Mo’taz Bisharat, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel’s colonialist activity in the Tubas governorate, said the colonizers also seized three privately owned vehicles and cut a main water line serving residents of the area.
In Salfit in the central West Bank, colonizers cut down more than twenty citrus trees belonging to Palestinian farmer Salah Yousef Mansour in Wadi Qana, northwest of Deir Istiya.
Local residents said the area has faced repeated attacks involving land clearing, tree cutting, and assaults on farmers, part of ongoing efforts to pressure Palestinians and seize additional land.
In Ramallah in the central West Bank, colonizers expanded a colonial outpost they recently established on Palestinian land in the Turmus Ayya plain north of the city, adding new structures and fencing off additional areas.
Furthermore, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers hurled stones at Palestinian cars in the Si’ Meadow area between Al‑Mughayyir and Abu Falah, north of Ramallah in the central West Bank, causing damage to several vehicles.
In Nablus in the northern West Bank, Israeli occupation forces and colonizers seized two municipal garbage‑collection trucks in Beita town, southeast of Nablus, after colonizers invaded the “Ein Aulim” area east of the town and took control of the vehicles.
A group of colonizers also invaded the outskirts of Burin, south of Nablus, prompting residents to confront the attack. Israeli soldiers responded by firing live rounds toward the residents.
Colonizers further invaded Beit Dajan and Beit Furik, east of Nablus, where they destroyed an agricultural room belonging to Jaser Abdul‑Rahim al‑Hajj Mohammad and vandalized its contents. They also uprooted tomato seedlings belonging to Sha’ban Nasr Hanani in nearby farmland.
Also in Nablus in the northern West Bank, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded the Ras al‑Ein area in the town of Qusra, south of the city, where they harassed Palestinian families. Israeli occupation soldiers then invaded the area and the nearby town of Qaryut, firing gas bombs and concussion grenades, in addition to storming and ransacking several homes and shops.
In Tulkarem, in northwestern West Bank, Israeli colonizers hurled stones at Palestinian cars while crossing Jabara Bridge, south of the city, causing damage.
In Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, colonizers continued expanding the colonial outpost in the ‘Osh Ghorab area east of Beit Sahour, east of the city, installing six new mobile homes under heavy military protection.
The area, which includes an Israeli military base, had been allocated nearly fifteen years ago for the construction of a children’s hospital for Bethlehem residents, but the project was halted after colonizers established an outpost they call “Shdema.”
In May of this year, Israeli occupation soldiers demolished a recreational park, including playgrounds and a wedding hall, in Osh Ghrab.
Osh Ghrab is the name of a hill located in the eastern side of Beit Sahour near Bethlehem. The site itself was a Jordanian military base taken over by Israel in 1967 who kept it as an Israeli military base.
The Israeli army unilaterally abandoned the place in 2006. The Beit Sahour municipality started to renovate the place and turned it into a public park for the local community in the Bethlehem area.
Since then, Israeli soldiers and groups of illegal paramilitary colonizers have been frequently invading the area, and demolishing structures, bulldozing road, and threatening to take over the entire area.
In occupied Jerusalem, colonizers herded their sheep between Palestinian homes and along internal roads in the Ekheilat al‑Kasrat community near Anata, blocking movement and preventing residents from reaching their workplaces.
The Jerusalem Governorate said colonizers placed the sheep directly at the entrances of homes and carried out daily harassment targeting women and children, part of a systematic effort to pressure residents to leave the area.
These are only some of the documented violations carried out by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers across the occupied West Bank. Due to the frequency of attacks and the isolation of many targeted communities, numerous incidents remain underreported or go unrecorded.
