Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers continued the attacks across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, assaulting Palestinian residents and targeting homes, vehicles, agricultural land, water infrastructure, livestock, and stone-cutting equipment. Colonizers also continued efforts to establish and expand illegal colonial outposts in several areas.
In Sinjil, north of Ramallah in the central West Bank, colonizers invaded the Gharaba area and vandalized stone-cutting equipment belonging to the Khalil family from the village of as-Sawiya, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank. Local sources said the assailants cut electrical cables connected to the machinery and stole an electronic control panel.
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Also in Sinjil, colonizers grazed livestock on Palestinian-owned farmland in the Shouriya area, causing damage to crops. The incident comes weeks after colonizers established a new pastoral colonial outpost in the area, from which repeated attacks against residents and their property have been reported.
In Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah, colonizers erected tents in the Wadi az-Zeitoun area in preparation for establishing a new colonial outpost on Palestinian-owned land. Colonizers also expanded a recently established outpost in the Karm area of Burqa, east of Ramallah.
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East of occupied Jerusalem, Israeli colonizers vandalized a Palestinian water well in the Bir al-Maskoub Bedouin community.
In Tayasir, east of Tubas in the northeastern West Bank, colonizers attempted to steal several horses belonging to a Palestinian resident before local residents intervened and recovered the animals.
In Beit Imrin, northwest of Nablus in the northern West Bank, colonizers attacked a Palestinian home, causing injuries among the residents, while Israeli forces detained several residents and prevented ambulances from reaching the area.
Israeli colonizers surrounded Mohammad Thabet Hassoun’s home in eastern Beit Imrin for more than three hours before soldiers invaded and abducted everyone inside.
The nine abductees were Thamer Munjed Hassoun, Mahmoud Thamer Hassoun, Fares Thamer Hassoun, Akram Munjed Hassoun, Yousef Akram Munjed Hassoun, Wahbi Akram Munjed Hassoun, Zakariya Munjed Hassoun, Asad Riyad Hassoun, and Na’im Karem Abda.
Soldiers ransacked and damaged the property without intervening against the colonizers who had attacked the Palestinians.
Additional attacks were reported along the Ramallah–Nablus Road, where colonizers targeted Palestinian vehicles. Similar attacks occurred near the illegal colonies of Shilo, northeast of Ramallah, and Yitzhar, south of Nablus. Colonizers also invaded the outskirts of Tell, southwest of Nablus.
South of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, colonizers damaged a Palestinian vehicle in the Abu Njeim area, southeast of the city.
In a separate incident, a colonizer reportedly struck a Palestinian girl with a vehicle in Wadi Obeid, west of Dura, south of Hebron in the southern West Bank.
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Meanwhile, colonizers, escorted by Israeli forces, invaded the al-Kassara area in al-Khaljan village, southwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank.
The mobile homes were brought to the site amid growing indications that Israeli colonizers may soon return to reside there, with local reports suggesting preparations are underway for their return in the coming days.
Kadim was evacuated in 2005 as part of Israel’s unilateral disengagement plan, which included the dismantling of four colonies in the northern West Bank.
In recent years, however, Israeli authorities have taken legislative and administrative measures aimed at facilitating renewed Israeli presence in areas that were previously evacuated.
The development comes amid escalating Israeli colonial expansion policies in the Jenin governorate of the northern West Bank, where Palestinians continue to face road closures, increasing colonizer attacks, restrictions on movement, and growing limitations on access to agricultural lands.
In addition, Jerusalemite physician Majed Elian Dwayat was injured Sunday evening after being assaulted by a group of Israeli colonizers in the Janata area, east of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.
According to the Jerusalem Governorate, Dwayat, a resident of Sur Baher in occupied Jerusalem, sustained a fractured hand after approximately ten colonizers attacked him with stones and clubs while he was in the area. The assailants also smashed the windows of his vehicle.
The Wall and Colonization Resistance Commission has reported that Israeli occupation forces and colonizers carried out 2,256 violations against Palestinians, their lands, and property during July.
The commission said Israeli forces were responsible for 1,458 violations, while colonizers carried out 798 attacks.
The commission reported that the highest number of violations was recorded in Ramallah and Al-Bireh in the central West Bank with 260 incidents, followed by Nablus in the northern West Bank with 247, Jenin in the northern West Bank with 190, Bethlehem in the southern West Bank with 185, and Hebron in the southern West Bank with 170.
In a statement, the commission said the figures reflect what it described as a close relationship between Israeli military operations and colonizer violence, asserting that Israeli forces provide protection and support that facilitate attacks against Palestinians and their property while helping to consolidate their effects on the ground.
The United Nations has warned that colonizer attacks have reached record levels, with hundreds of incidents involving assaults on Palestinian communities, destruction of property, arson, land seizures, and attacks on agricultural resources.
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UN agencies have linked colonizer violence and the expansion of illegal outposts to the forced displacement of Palestinian communities, particularly Bedouin and herding families in Area C and the Jordan Valley.
Human rights groups and local media have documented similar attacks across the occupied West Bank, including the burning of olive groves, destruction of water infrastructure, assaults on homes and vehicles, seizure of grazing land, and efforts to establish new illegal colonial outposts.
