Illegal paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, injuring two Palestinian women and expanding their presence on privately owned Palestinian and religious endowment lands, while Israeli forces invaded several communities to provide protection for the attackers.
In the northern West Bank, two Palestinian women were injured when colonizers attacked homes in the village of Jurish and the nearby town of Aqraba, south of Nablus.
Local sources said groups of colonizers hurled stones at Palestinian homes in the Wadi al‑Hajj Issa area between the two communities.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its medics treated a 35‑year‑old pregnant woman and a 65‑year‑old woman who were injured during the attack on Jurish.
In the central West Bank, colonizers attacked the village of Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah, prompting confrontations with residents.
Media sources said Israeli forces then invaded the village to secure the colonizers’ presence and abducted two Palestinians, identified as Saadallah Nawwaf al‑Zidani and Mohammad Ahmad Muqbil.
Also, Israeli colonizers established a new illegal colonialist outpost on lands belonging to the Islamic Waqf west of the town of Deir Istiya in the Salfit district, in central West Bank.
The colonizers installed two mobile homes in the al‑Maghsala area and simultaneously bulldozed nearby land.
They also extended a water pipeline from the illegal colony of Revava to the new outpost, running it through Palestinian olive groves.
Residents described the move as a dangerous escalation in colonizer activity west of Deir Istiya, where several herding outposts have been erected in recent months, accompanied by repeated attempts to seize agricultural land and prevent farmers from accessing it.
The sources added that, on Friday, colonizers demolished the small community of al‑Oyoun, west of Wadi Qana in Salfit district, after forcing its residents to leave.
In occupied Jerusalem, Israeli colonizers prevented several Palestinian farmers from plowing their land on Saturday in the town of Beit Iksa, northwest of the city.
Resident Abdul‑Karim Ajaj said that a group of farmers headed to their land early in the morning to begin plowing, but colonizers—accompanied by Israeli occupation forces—attacked them and forced them to leave the area.
He explained that the targeted lands lie in areas repeatedly subjected to colonizer assaults aimed at seizing them.
Farmers from the town added that these attacks have escalated in recent weeks, increasingly preventing them from accessing and cultivating their land as part of a broader effort to empty areas surrounding illegal colonies of their Palestinian owners.
They stressed that the assaults are routinely carried out under the protection of Israeli forces, who block residents from defending their land.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission stated that Israeli forces and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out 1,819 attacks during March, including 1,322 by the army and 497 by colonizers.
Hebron in the southern West Bank recorded the highest number of violations with 321 attacks, followed by Nablus in the northern West Bank with 315, Ramallah and al‑Bireh in the central West Bank with 292, and occupied Jerusalem with 203. The Commission described the figures as evidence of intensified, systematic targeting of these regions.
All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits collective punishment and acts of terror against civilian populations.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory”.
Articles 53 and 147, prohibit the destruction of civilian property and classify pillage as a war crime
