Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out multiple assaults across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, targeting Palestinian communities in the northern Jordan Valley, the central West Bank, the northern West Bank, and the southern West Bank, while Israeli forces invaded several areas and abducted a Palestinian in Masafer Yatta.
In the northern Jordan Valley, part of Tubas in the northeastern West Bank, local sources reported that colonizers attacked Palestinian tents in the Hammamat al‑Maleh area and attempted to steal livestock belonging to local families.
The area has witnessed a sharp escalation in colonizer violence, forcing several families to leave their homes and grazing lands under sustained threats.
In the central West Bank, colonizers began bulldozing Palestinian‑owned land in the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah. Marwan Al-Sabah, head of the Umm Safa Village Council, said the bulldozing took place near the village’s eastern entrance and threatens approximately 50 dunams surrounding the home of resident Mohammad Obeyyat.
Mohammad noted that the land‑clearing operations appear aimed at expanding nearby colonial infrastructure.
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In the northern West Bank, colonizers attacked the Ras al‑Ain area south of Qusra, near Nablus. Local sources said confrontations erupted between residents and Israeli forces after colonizers advanced toward the community. Israeli troops invaded the area, fired stun grenades, and provided cover for the colonizers.
In the southern West Bank, Israeli colonizers destroyed more than eight dunams of Palestinian wheat and barley fields on Thursday in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
Anti‑colonization activist Osama Makhamra stated that a group of armed colonizers from the colony of Susiya, built on privately owned Palestinian land, sprayed chemical substances across over eight dunams of wheat and barley in the Wadi al‑Rakheem area west of Susiya.
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The targeted fields belong to farmer Ali Mohammad Shnaran, and the chemical attack wiped out the crops entirely.
In addition, Israeli forces abducted a Palestinian in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, following a colonizer assault on shepherds.
Furthermore, Makhmra said a group of armed colonizers attacked Palestinian shepherds and attempted to steal a flock of sheep in the Wadi Abu Shaban and Rajum ‘Ali areas. Israeli forces then invaded the area, detained several residents, and subjected them to abuse before abducting Jabr Mohammad Awad.
It is worth mentioning that, two days earlier, a group of Israeli colonizers invaded the Khirbet al‑Halawa community in Masafer Yatta and stole livestock.
The incidents come amid a broader escalation in colonizer violence across the occupied West Bank, where Palestinian communities continue to face land seizures, livestock theft, home demolitions, and repeated invasions by Israeli forces operating alongside colonizer groups.
On Wednesday, the colonizers carried out a series of new attacks across the northern Jordan Valley and Ramallah, in central West Bank, including invasions of Palestinian communities, the seizure of property, and the destruction of agricultural land.
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.
