Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, accompanied by occupation forces, carried out several assaults, Monday, attacking Palestinian farmers in Mikhmas northeast of occupied Jerusalem and torching agricultural lands between Atara and Birzeit north of Ramallah, and uprooting trees northeast of Ramallah, in central West Bank.
Media sources said the colonizers forces, attacked Palestinian farmers in the town of Mikhmas, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, while they were plowing their land and attempted to prevent them from working.
Residents confronted the attackers and forced them to withdraw. Israeli forces then stormed the area to shield the colonizers, firing live rounds, stun grenades, and toxic tear gas at civilians. No injuries were reported.
Later the same evening, colonizers set fire to agricultural lands between the towns of Atara and Birzeit, north of Ramallah.
Local sources said the lands belong to residents of both towns, and added that colonizers had previously established a pastoral outpost on stolen Palestinians lands in the area and are now burning farmland in an attempt to annex it to the outpost.
In Turmus Ayya town, northeast of Ramallah, Israeli colonizers and soldiers invaded Palestinian lands before bulldozing and uprooting many olive trees.
In a separate incident, several Palestinians suffered suffocation injuries after Israeli forces invaded the village of Shuqba, west of Ramallah, firing toxic tear gas at residents and commercial shops.
Earlier Monday, Israeli colonizers carried out a series of assaults across the occupied West Bank, including livestock theft in Hebron, physical attacks on a driver near Jericho, the establishment of a new outpost in the northern Jordan Valley, violent assaults on Palestinian vehicles and farmland in the South Hebron Hills, and assaults near Qalqilia.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission documented 2,350 assaults by Israeli forces and colonizers across the West Bank, including Jerusalem, during October alone.
