Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out two separate attacks on Friday in the occupied West Bank, targeting an all‑girls school south of Nablus in the northern West Bank and Palestinian vehicles in the town of Tuqu’ southeast of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.
Local sources reported that a group of colonizers invaded Al‑Lubban Al‑Sharqiya Girls School after smashing its main gate.
The attackers vandalized school property, destroying the pole bearing the Palestinian flag and causing additional material damage to several facilities inside the compound.
Residents and educators say the assault is part of an ongoing pattern of violations by colonizers and Israeli soldiers aimed at disrupting the learning environment and intimidating students and staff in the Nablus governorate.
Samer Al‑Jamal, Director‑General of Education in South Nablus, urged relevant authorities and international institutions to intervene immediately to halt these attacks and protect educational facilities, particularly as violations intensify during religious and national occasions.
It is worth noting that last month, Israeli Knesset member Tzvi Sukkot—who resides in the illegal colony of Beitar Illit near Bethlehem—invaded the same school with a group of colonizers and threatened teachers during the incursion.
Local sources said Sukkot entered the school grounds accompanied by other colonizers, confronting staff in what educators described as a continuation of the escalating campaign targeting schools in the area.
Later in the evening, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked Palestinian vehicles on the main road in the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem. Residents said the colonizers blocked the road and targeted passing cars, preventing them from moving. No injuries were reported.
The incidents reflect the continued escalation of colonizer violence against Palestinian communities, schools, and property across the occupied West Bank.
In related news, Israeli occupation forces bulldozed Palestinian‑owned land and uprooted olive trees in the village of Ein Yabrud in the central occupied West Bank, east of Ramallah, as part of ongoing military activity targeting agricultural areas.
On Thursday, Israeli colonizers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, carried out a series of coordinated attacks on Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank, assaulting residents, burning property, and triggering confrontations in several areas.
In addition, Israeli colonizers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, carried out a series of coordinated attacks on Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, assaulting residents, burning property, and triggering protests in several areas.
All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits collective punishment and acts of terror against civilian populations.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory”.
Articles 53 and 147, prohibit the destruction of civilian property and classify pillage as a war crime.
