Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of violent, coordinated assaults on Thursday across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank, including Hebron in the southern West Bank, the northwestern outskirts of occupied Jerusalem, the central West Bank district of Salfit, the Jericho area in the northeastern West Bank, and the Nablus district in the northern West Bank, while Israeli forces provided full protection and facilitated the attacks.
In Hebron, Israeli soldiers invaded the town of Dura, south of the city, and fired many flares and gas bombs, causing a fire, before Palestinian firefighter rushed to the area to extinguish it.
In the village of Beit Iksa, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, Israeli colonizers invaded the outskirts of the village, provoked residents, and assaulted them before spraying pepper gas directly at several Palestinians.
Local sources reported that one resident suffered severe breathing difficulties and intense burning in the face and eyes.
Israeli forces simultaneously invaded the surrounding area, securing the colonizers’ advance as residents mobilized to prevent them from reaching agricultural lands and homes.
Beit Iksa has faced a sustained and intensifying campaign of colonizer violence in recent months, including repeated assaults on farmers, efforts to block access to agricultural lands, and the establishment of colonial outposts and structures around the village.
The Jerusalem Governorate has previously warned of ongoing attempts to seize lands in the Khirbet Samri, Erq al‑Hammam, and Erq al‑Batouf areas.
In occupied Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood, south of the Al‑Aqsa Mosque, colonizers attacked the Rajabi family with stones in the Ein area, injuring a child, Mohammad Nidal Rajabi, in the face.
The colonizers also attacked and hurled stones at a shop, owned by members of Rajabi family, in Silwan, causing damage.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) said a teenage boy, Mohammad Nidal Rajabi, was injured in the nose when the colonizers hurled stones at the residents.
Witnesses confirmed that the attack occurred under the protection of Israeli police, who remained on site without intervening.
In the central West Bank, colonizers began bulldozing agricultural lands in the Wadi al‑Matwi area between the city of Salfit and the town of Bruqin.
Local residents said the bulldozing targeted cultivated lands in preparation for expanding colonial roads. Salfit continues to face a systematic escalation of colonizer attacks aimed at seizing agricultural property and expanding colonial infrastructure.
In addition, colonizers forced a Palestinian Bedouin family to leave their land west of the village of Al‑Auja, north of Jericho.
The Al‑Baidar human rights organization reported that the family of Ibrahim Suleiman Kaabna, consisting of seven members, had previously been displaced from the Furush Beit Dajan area before facing another forced displacement that pushed them toward the northern Jordan Valley.
The organization stressed that these actions form part of a sustained campaign by Israeli forces and colonizers to expel Bedouin communities for colonial expansion.
In the northern West Bank, colonizer groups fired live rounds and invaded the outskirts of the village of Al‑Lubban al‑Sharqiya, south of Nablus.
Residents said the colonizers approached agricultural areas and attempted to advance toward homes before villagers mobilized to confront them.
In Burin village, south of Nablus, a group of colonizers hurled stones and fired gas bombs at Palestinian cars driving on the bypass road near the village.
Human rights organizations have documented a sharp rise in colonizer violence across the occupied West Bank in recent months, including pepper‑spray assaults, beatings, live‑fire attacks, land seizures, and efforts to prevent farmers from reaching their lands—violence that continues to escalate under direct military protection.
