Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers injured an elderly Palestinian man and installed several new colonial structures across multiple districts of the occupied West Bank on Thursday, in a continued escalation of land seizures and attacks targeting Palestinian communities.
In the northern West Bank, colonizers invaded the village of Imrin, northwest of Nablus, early Thursday morning and installed several tents on privately owned Palestinian land.
Local sources said the tents were placed roughly 500 meters from one of the homes in the area, raising fears of an imminent attempt to seize the surrounding land and establish a new colonial outpost.
In the southern West Bank, colonizers erected a tent on lands belonging to the Salahat and Al‑Mawaleh families in the Khalayel al‑Louz area southeast of Bethlehem.
Hassan Breijieh, a researcher with the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, said the move reinforces an Israeli military decision to construct a colonial bypass road linking the “Tekoa” and “Efrat” illegal colonies.
He warned that the road would sever Bethlehem from its southern rural communities, further harming farmers and families who rely on the area for their livelihoods.
In the northeastern West Bank, colonizers carried out a series of coordinated violations across the Tubas district.
Earlier, colonizer mobs assaulted Palestinians in the village of Tayasir, wounding an elderly man and injuring several others.
Residents said the attack was part of a pattern of escalating violence targeting Palestinian communities across the northeastern West Bank.
Colonizers also installed a new tent late Wednesday night in the Einun area on the southern side of Tubas.
Mukhles Masa’id, head of the Yarza Village Council, said the structure could serve as the nucleus of a new colonial outpost. Several Palestinian families live near the site after being previously displaced from other parts of the northern Jordan Valley due to repeated colonizer attacks.
At dawn Thursday, colonizers placed a mobile home on a hill in the Wadi al‑Tayasir area northeast of Tubas. Hani Abu Ali, head of the Tayasir Village Council, said the colonizers also brought livestock enclosures and positioned the structure close to Palestinian homes.
The installation came only hours after colonizers injured four Palestinians during an attack in the same area on Wednesday night. Another colonial tent was erected the previous night in the Einun area near Tubas.
These violations form part of a broader pattern of expanding colonial outposts across the occupied West Bank, where colonizers continue to seize land, install structures, and attack Palestinian families under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
On Wednesday, a Palestinian worker was killed, and eight others were injured, one seriously, after Israeli forces and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers pursued workers’ vehicles and opened live fire at them in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, causing several vehicles to overturn.
The slain man was identified as 31‑year‑old Yosri Majed Abu Qbeita, from the town of Yatta. He succumbed to his wounds shortly after being shot during the pursuit.
A day earlier, five Palestinian workers were injured in two separate vehicular attacks by Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, while Israeli forces abducted five others near Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, early Tuesday.
