Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, operating under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, carried out multiple coordinated attacks on Palestinian farmers on Friday in the Hebron and Ramallah districts, assaulting residents, causing injuries, stealing agricultural equipment, and leading to the abduction of five Palestinians.
In the Ras al‑Khalla area of ar‑Rihiya, south of Hebron in the southern West Bank, colonizers from the “Beit Haggai” colony attacked several Palestinians while they were working on their agricultural land.
Local sources reported that Israeli occupation forces quickly arrived at the scene to secure the colonizers, before firing stun grenades and tear gas at the Palestinian residents, causing at least two cases of suffocation.
Following the assault, the occupation forces abducted five members of the Tubassi family. The abducted Palestinians were identified as Ahmad Atiyya Tubassi, Nasser Ahmad Tubassi; Yousef Salman Tubassi, Mousa Ibrahim Tubassi and Suleiman Ibrahim Tubassi.
Witnesses said the soldiers detained the men after colonizers claimed they had been “obstructed,” despite the fact that the Palestinians were on their privately owned land.
In a separate attack, illegal paramilitary colonizers assaulted a Palestinian farmer from Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah in the central West Bank, while he was working his land in the al‑Marj area.
Local sources said the colonizers beat the man, causing injuries, before stealing his agricultural tractor and fleeing the area.
These attacks are part of the ongoing escalation of colonizer violence across the occupied West Bank, carried out with the active protection of Israeli occupation forces, and aimed at pressuring Palestinian farmers and rural communities off their land.
