Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked the town of Sinjil and the nearby village of Jaljulia, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, on Wednesday morning, assaulting Palestinian shepherds and stealing their livestock.
Local sources said dozens of colonizers, accompanied by Israeli occupation soldiers, spread out across the western area of Sinjil, where they chased shepherds, assaulted them, and seized several sheep before residents intervened.
The same sources added that another group of colonizers attacked homes on the outskirts of Jaljulia, where they stole additional sheep and agricultural equipment belonging to local farmers.
Residents said the colonizers moved freely under the protection of the occupation army, which remained deployed in the area and prevented Palestinians from approaching their own land while the colonizers carried out the assaults.
The attacks on Sinjil and Jaljulia come amid a continued escalation of colonizer violence across the occupied West Bank, where armed colonizer groups have intensified assaults on Palestinian communities, agricultural lands, and herding areas.
Palestinian residents and human rights organizations have repeatedly warned that these attacks are encouraged by Israeli government officials who openly support colonizer expansion and accompany colonizer groups during incursions into Palestinian towns and villages.
The growing coordination between colonizers and the occupation army has further entrenched a climate of impunity, leaving Palestinian communities vulnerable to repeated assaults and the ongoing theft of land, livestock, and property.
Before dawn Wednesday, thousands of Israeli colonizers, accompanied by large numbers of occupation soldiers and government officials, invaded the Joseph’s Tomb area east of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
