Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks, land seizures, and religious‑site violations across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank on Friday.
In the town of Mikhmas north of occupied Jerusalem, colonizers used heavy machinery to bulldoze Palestinian‑owned land in the “al‑Hai” area.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission reported that the bulldozing is part of preparations to establish a new colonial outpost, reflecting an ongoing escalation aimed at expanding illegal colonies.
The attack coincides with repeated colonizer assaults targeting Palestinian families on the outskirts of the town in an effort to displace them and seize their land.
Also in Jerusalem, Israeli colonizers and soldiers assaulted a Palestinian bus driver, causing cuts and bruises.
South of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, dozens of colonizers invaded the Solomon’s Pools area between the town of al‑Khader and the village of Artas.
Around 50 colonizers spread across the three historic pools, swam in them, and performed religious rituals while Israeli occupation forces closed the main road and blocked Palestinian movement.
Residents report a sharp escalation in recent weeks involving colonizer assaults, tear gas attacks, and repeated closures of the area.
In the village of al‑Minya southeast of Bethlehem, colonizer militias attacked Palestinian homes with stones and damaged the main electricity line supplying the community, causing power outages.
In Hebron in the southern West Bank, Israeli occupation forces and colonizers invaded the Ras Mosque in the al‑Ja’bari neighborhood of the Old City at dawn.
Troops broke into the mosque, assaulted those inside, prevented the dawn prayer, and forced worshippers Tawfiq Ja’bari and Nasser Fahd Ja’bari out before sealing the mosque.
Colonizers raised Israeli flags on its doors and broadcast Hebrew songs through the mosque’s loudspeakers.
The Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs condemned the invasion, noting that colonizers had seized mosque‑owned land six months earlier and built a playground on it.
In the Ramallah district in the central West Bank, colonizers attacked Palestinian farmers’ vehicles in the Wadi az‑Zarqa area near the village of Beitillu northwest of the city.
In a separate incident east of Ramallah, colonizers invaded the village of Burqa, set fire to agricultural land, and burned dozens of fruit trees, particularly olive and almond trees.
Residents confronted the attackers, who carried out provocative actions on the village’s outskirts.
In Tulkarem in the northwestern West Bank, colonizers invaded the historic village of Kour south of the city on Friday morning, prompting concern among residents over renewed attempts to seize land in the area.
In the Hebron district in the southern West Bank, colonizers released their livestock among Palestinian homes in the Khirbet al‑Kharaba area east of the town of as‑Samu’, damaging crops and grazing on privately owned land.
These incidents form part of a broader pattern of escalating colonizer violence and land seizures across the occupied West Bank, carried out with the protection and participation of Israeli occupation forces.
This report covers the documented invasions and colonizer attacks across the occupied West Bank and cannot capture all incidents due to the intensity and continuity of these violations.
