Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out attacks across the occupied West Bank on Monday, detaining and assaulting Palestinians, damaging property and water infrastructure, burning agricultural land, and expanding colonial infrastructure under the protection of Israeli forces.
In Faqqu’a, northeast of Jenin in the northern West Bank, Israeli colonizers detained two farmers and a child as they picked prickly pears on village land near a newly established colonial outpost.
Israeli forces later abducted the farmers, identified as Munir Mahmoud Sidqi Salah, 44, and Ahmad Abdullah Zaidan, 75. The forces released the child and made him return home on foot, while taking the farmers to an undisclosed location.
In Qusra, south of Nablus in northern West Bank, Israeli colonizers continued for a ninth consecutive day to surround several homes in the Ras al-Ain area, accompanied by Israeli forces. They prevented residents from reaching the properties and erected a tent nearby in an effort to seize the homes and impose control over the area.
For about four months, the colonizers have attempted to enter and seize the homes, prompting members of the affected families to stay in them around the clock, working in rotating shifts to protect the properties.
Israeli forces also closed roads leading to Ras al-Ain with earth mounds, preventing residents from reaching the area. Last Thursday, the forces compelled residents of two homes to evacuate and converted 16 homes in Qusra into military posts.
In Beita, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, local sources said Israeli colonizers attacked and beat two young men in the town’s eastern area. The two sustained wounds and bruises and were taken to a hospital for treatment.
Israeli forces also invaded the area around Jabal al-Arma, triggering protests, and detained several Palestinian young men near Bir Qouza.
In the central West Bank, Israeli colonizers accompanied by Israeli forces invaded the eastern outskirts of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, and gathered near Palestinian homes. Other colonizers invaded nearby Deir Jarir and grazed livestock among residents’ homes.
Also, Israeli colonizers bulldozed Palestinian land in the al-Wajeh al-Gharbi and al-Maisha areas, west of Deir Ammar, and opened a new road near residents’ homes. Local residents expressed concern that the work was connected to the expansion of colonial outposts on village land.
Locally circulated images and posts showed the bulldozing work, as well as Israeli colonizers inside a house under construction in al-Wajeh al-Gharbi, where they raised an Israeli flag.
In al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya, east of Ramallah in the central West Bank, groups of Israeli colonizers attacked the town’s outskirts. Palestinian residents confronted them, and clashes followed.
In related news, Israeli colonizers, accompanied by Israeli forces, also set fire to Palestinian land in the al-Shouna area on the outskirts of Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah.
The attacks followed earlier incidents around Deir Ammar, where colonizers broke into a house under construction, damaged its contents, bulldozed olive trees, and established or expanded colonial outposts. Local sources also reported that a pastoral outpost had been established on land belonging to al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya.
In Tubas Governorate, in the northeastern West Bank, Israeli colonizers attacked and damaged a main water pipeline that supplies Palestinian families in the Yarza and Ras al-Ahmar areas. Colonizers were also reported roaming Khirbet Samra in the northern Jordan Valley.
In the southern West Bank, Israeli colonizers attacked passing Palestinian vehicles near the Tuqu’ junction, southeast of Bethlehem, causing material damage but no reported injuries. They also blocked a road and attacked vehicles near the Israeli colony of Efrat, south of Bethlehem.
The incidents were part of continuing attacks by Israeli colonizers across the occupied West Bank targeting Palestinian residents, farmers, vehicles, homes, agricultural land, water infrastructure, trees, and other property.
