Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers escalated their attacks on Palestinian communities on Sunday, stealing livestock, burning property, uprooting olive saplings, invading residential areas, and seizing a former police post in multiple locations across the occupied West Bank.
In the village of al‑Mughayyer, east of Ramallah, colonizers invaded Palestinian‑owned land near the al‑Khalayel area and stole around 150 sheep belonging to farmer Anis Abu ‘Alia. Residents said colonizers had repeatedly brought their own herds into the village’s fields in recent days, causing extensive damage to crops and private property.
They added that the paramilitary colonizers also burned property, including barns and tents, before fleeing the scene.
In Bethlehem district, media sources reported that colonizers uprooted newly planted olive saplings in the ‘Osh Ghorab area of Beit Sahour before moving toward the Jabal Harasa area, where they attacked Palestinian homes and attempted to intimidate residents.
In a separate incident, another group of colonizers seized the former “Rojoum an‑Naqa” police post in the village of al‑Rashayda, east of Bethlehem, and installed a water network inside the structure — a move locals fear is the first step toward converting the site into a new colony outpost.
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The attacks come one day after colonizers invaded the areas of Khalayel al‑Louz and Abu Njeim in Bethlehem district, carrying out widespread provocations against Palestinian residents under the protection of Israeli forces.
In Hebron, in the southern West Bank, Israeli colonizers destroyed fences around large areas of Palestinian lands in the Huwwara area in Masafer Yatta town, south of the city.
The colonizers also harvested and stole Palestinian crops from a land owned by Adel Hamamda in the same area.
