Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks on Wednesday across several areas of the occupied West Bank, including land destruction, assaults on residents, and obstruction of movement, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
In the village of Mikhmas, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, colonizers bulldozed Palestinian‑owned land planted with olive trees in the al‑‘Abahra area.
The Jerusalem Governorate said the attack is part of an ongoing pattern targeting Mikhmas and the nearby Khallet as‑Sidra Bedouin community, where colonizers—backed by Israeli forces—have repeatedly assaulted residents, burned and destroyed homes and animal shelters, vandalized vehicles, and damaged or seized solar panels and surveillance cameras.
In addition, Israeli colonizers attacked Palestinian vehicles on Tuesday evening at the Jaba’ roundabout northeast of Jerusalem, damaging several cars but causing no physical injuries.
Witnesses said a group of colonizers hurled stones at passing vehicles as they moved through the roundabout, noting that such assaults have become increasingly frequent across the Jerusalem district.
Communities situated near or adjacent to Israeli colonies in the Jerusalem area continue to face repeated attacks targeting residents and their property.
These assaults form part of a broader strategy aimed at pressuring Palestinians to abandon their homes and villages.
In the Bethlehem district in the southern West Bank, colonizers raised Israeli flags in the town of Beit Sahour, specifically in the Jabal Harasa area east of the city.
Media sources said the move comes amid a noticeable escalation in colonizer attacks on Palestinian property in Beit Sahour, particularly in the ‘Ush Ghorab area, where repeated assaults and vandalism have been documented in recent weeks.
In the Nablus district in the northern West Bank, colonizers assaulted a Palestinian woman from the town of Aqraba.
Local sources reported that a group of colonizers attacked her near the town’s entrance and sprayed pepper gas in her face before fleeing the area.
Later in the evening, dozens of colonizers gathered at major road junctions south of Nablus, blocking movement and preventing Palestinians from traveling between nearby towns and villages.
Residents said colonizers positioned themselves at the entrances of several communities, creating deliberate obstructions and heightening tension across the area.
On Tuesday, Israeli colonizers, backed by Israeli occupation forces, carried out a series of coordinated assaults and land‑seizure actions across multiple areas in the Salfit governorate, in central West Bank, and the Jerusalem district, targeting Palestinian farmers, shepherds, and privately owned agricultural land.
Last Saturday, Israeli colonizers killed a Palestinian young man, Amir Mu’tasim Mahmoud Odah, 28, and wounded others on Saturday, after storming the village of Qusra, south of Nablus in the northern occupied
West Bank.
Also, two Palestinians, Thaer Farouq Hamayel, 24, and Fares Jawdat Hamayel, 57, were killed on Sunday, March 7, after Israeli colonizers shot them both in the head with live ammunition after infiltrating Abu Falah village, northeast of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank.
During the attack, a third citizen Mohammad Hassan Murra, 55, died after arriving to the hospital in cardiac arrest after being exposed to tear gas fired by occupation forces, while three others were shot with live rounds, one in the head, one in the pelvis, and another in the shoulder.
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.
