Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks on Tuesday across several areas of the occupied West Bank, burning agricultural lands, destroying crops, and stealing livestock in assaults targeting Palestinian communities in the Nablus, Hebron, and occupied Jerusalem districts.
In the village of As‑Sawiya, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, colonizers traveling in two vehicles invaded the area and ignited burning tires before rolling them toward surrounding farmland.
Hikmat Abu Ras, head of the village council, stated that the fires spread quickly across fields along the road between As‑Sawiya and Al‑Lubban ash‑Sharqiya, destroying large areas of wheat crops and olive trees.
Residents mobilized to confront the attackers and managed to extinguish the flames. Abu Ras urged official institutions to act immediately to provide basic protection for villages south of Nablus, which continue to face repeated colonizer attacks.
In a separate attack the same day, colonizers burned extensive wheat fields belonging to farmers in the town of Ethna, west of Hebron in the southern West Bank.
Residents reported that colonizers from the illegal Adora colony and the newly established outpost known as “Adorim” intensified their provocations in the eastern part of the town, torching wide tracts of cultivated land.
Farmers condemned the attacks, which occurred under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, and affirmed their determination to continue working their lands despite ongoing attempts by colonizers to seize them for settlement expansion.
They added that colonizer groups in the area routinely steal livestock and crops, chase and assault Palestinian civilians, seize vehicles, and block roads.
In the village of Beit Iksa northwest of occupied Jerusalem, colonizers stole dozens of sheep belonging to several local families.
Eyewitnesses said the colonizers from a recently established grazing outpost built on village lands took the livestock and transported them inside the outpost.
When residents attempted to reach the area to search for the stolen animals, the colonizers prevented them from approaching.
The outpost, erected in recent months, has become a base for repeated attacks targeting villagers and shepherds, including chasing them in grazing areas and blocking access to agricultural lands in an effort to impose control over large sections of Beit Iksa’s territory.
Residents noted a sharp escalation in colonizer violence since the establishment of the grazing outpost, with frequent assaults on civilians and their property, alongside ongoing attempts to seize land for further colonial expansion.
The village, already isolated by the Wall and surrounding colonies, faces increasing pressure as colonizers intensify efforts to take over what remains of its agricultural and grazing areas.
At dawn Tuesday, Israeli colonizers carried out coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank, including arson, assaults on Palestinian vehicles, land seizures, and the establishment of new colonial outposts.
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.
