Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, abducting children and young men, assaulting residents, and targeting Palestinian homes, farms, and Bedouin communities, while Israeli forces simultaneously tightened movement restrictions and seized vehicles in the southern West Bank.
Local sources in Einabus, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, reported that a group of colonizers — including the armed guard of the “Yitzhar” colony built on Palestinian land — abducted two young men from the village.
The colonizers took them to an area adjacent to the colony, beat them, stripped them of their clothing, and later released them.
In a separate incident south of Nablus, colonizers abducted a child, Osayd Mahmoud Ghanem, from the town of Qabalan and transported him to the “Evyatar” colony established on stolen land in Jabal Sbeih in the town of Beita.
After several hours, the colonizers released the child before the Israeli army handed him over to the Palestinian liaison office.
Later in the evening, a woman in the village of Burin, also south of Nablus, suffered severe breathing difficulties after colonizers sprayed pepper spray in her face during an attack on a Palestinian home.
Ibrahim Omran, head of the Burin village council, said the colonizers also fired live rounds to intimidate residents, adding that such attacks have become a daily pattern targeting the community.
In the Jordan Valley, a group of colonizers stole ten heads of livestock from the “Arab al-Ka’abna” Bedouin community west of the village of al-Auja, north of Jericho. The stolen animals belonged to resident Suleiman Melihat.
Local sources said the theft was part of a systematic campaign aimed at pressuring Bedouin communities to leave their land by targeting their primary sources of livelihood.
Also in the central Jordan Valley, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Tubas reported that its medical teams transported a young man to the hospital after colonizers assaulted him in the area of Ein Shibli.
In the village of Mikhmas, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, colonizers attacked Palestinian property in the al-Mazare‘ area, damaging residents’ belongings.
The Jerusalem Governorate said the village and nearby Bedouin communities have faced repeated colonizer attacks involving the destruction and burning of homes, livestock shelters, vehicles, solar panels, and surveillance cameras, often under the protection of Israeli forces.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces invaded the town of Deir Samet, southwest of Hebron in the southern West Bank, where they set up a military roadblock and seized two Palestinian-owned vehicles, transporting them to an undisclosed location.
Israeli forces also installed multiple military roadblocks at the entrances of Hebron’s towns, villages, and refugee camps, closing several main and secondary roads with iron gates, concrete blocks, and earth mounds.
South of Hebron, in the area of Masafer Yatta, armed colonizers assaulted two brothers — Mahmoud and Mohammad Fareed Hamamda, aged 13 and 11 — while they were herding their sheep in the Fateh Sadra area. The colonizers beat the children and attempted to steal their flock.
In the northeastern West Bank, colonizers assaulted a young man working on his farm in the village of Aqqaba, east of Tubas. Kamel Bani Odah, director of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society office in Tubas, said Israeli forces later abducted Mohammad Hani Sbeih as residents attempted to repel the colonizer attack.
