On Monday, groups of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks against Palestinian civilians in multiple areas of the occupied West Bank, injuring several people, assaulting farmers, destroying property, and forcing entire families to flee their homes.
In the Jerusalem district, colonizers assaulted a 70‑year‑old man in the village of Mikhmas, northeast of the occupied city.
The Jerusalem Governorate said the colonizers attacked the village and beat the elderly man before Palestinian Red Crescent medics provided first aid and transferred him to a hospital.
Mikhmas and the surrounding Bedouin communities are subjected to frequent colonizer attacks, carried out alongside Israeli soldiers, including assaults on residents, the destruction and burning of homes, animal shelters, and vehicles, and the vandalism or theft of solar panels and surveillance cameras.
In the Salfit district, in the central West Bank, colonizers attacked farmer Bassem Abdul‑Salam Hassan Qadous while he was working his land in the town of Rafat west of Salfit.
The municipality of Az‑Zawiya said the colonizers beat him severely, causing multiple bruises, before he was transferred to Salfit Governmental Hospital.
The municipality added that the colonizers held Qadous captive from morning until evening before Israeli soldiers arrived. The attack occurred while he was plowing the land with a tractor.
Local sources reported a second assault on Qadous in another agricultural area between Deir Ballout and Rafat, after which he was transferred to Yasser Arafat Governmental Hospital in Salfit.
These attacks are part of an ongoing campaign aimed at restricting Palestinian farmers, preventing them from reaching their lands, and undermining their ability to cultivate them.
In the Ramallah district, in the central West Bank, Israeli colonizers, accompanied by soldiers, attacked the town of Silwad and the nearby village of Yabrud.
Silwad Mayor Raed Hamed said colonizers assaulted a man, his pregnant wife, and their child, beating them and spraying them with pepper spray. All three were transferred for medical treatment.
In addition, colonizers stormed Yabrud, stealing 15 sheep belonging to Suleiman Dawoud and his son Ala’. Israeli soldiers invaded the village during the attack and fired tear‑gas canisters; no injuries were reported.
Colonizers also attacked Palestinians between the villages of Deir Ibzi’ and Safa west of Ramallah, assaulting residents of Beit ‘Ur at‑Tahta while they were present on their land.
In the Jordan Valley, the Al‑Baidar Human Rights Association reported that five Palestinian families were forced to flee their homes near the cement factories west of Al‑‘Auja, north of Jericho, after colonizers attacked them.
The colonizers assaulted residents, stole a tractor and a trailer, and destroyed personal property, forcing the families to leave the area for their safety amid repeated attacks.
In Hebron, in the southern West Bank, groups of colonizers gathered on a street in the Nabi Younes area in Halhoul town, north of the city, and obstructed traffic.
In the Southern Hebron Hills, a Palestinian man was injured after colonizers assaulted him in the village of Al‑Fakhit in Masafer Yatta.
Anti‑colonization activist Osama Makhamra said colonizers beat activist Sami Al‑Hreini, causing bruises. Other colonizers erected a tent in the Tel Ma’in area of Yatta and destroyed a fence surrounding land belonging to the Makhamra and Jabarin families.
Furthermore, paramilitary colonizers from the illegal colony of Kiryat Arba’ also attacked Palestinian vehicles east of Hebron, throwing stones at cars under the protection of Israeli soldiers.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces fired concussion grenades and tear‑gas canisters at Palestinians near the Hanina roundabout south of Doura and installed a military roadblock near the At‑Tabaqa junction southwest of Hebron.
