Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, late Tuesday night, bulldozing a key road and roaming provocatively between Palestinian homes.
Suleiman Dawabsha, head of the Duma Village Council, said the colonizers bulldozed the road connecting the village to Khirbet al‑Marajim, blocking it with earth mounds and cutting the main water line serving the area.
The al‑Baidar Human Rights Organization confirmed the incident, noting that the road was bulldozed and sealed with earth mounds, obstructing the movement of Palestinian residents.
The organization added that severing the water line disrupted daily life and further undermined essential infrastructure, stressing that such actions deliberately target Palestinian services and deepen the suffering of communities in the region.
In a related development, al‑Baidar reported that colonizers placed caravans on Palestinian‑owned land in the village of Jurat al‑Sham’a, south of Bethlehem, on Wednesday morning.
The organization said the move is part of ongoing attempts to establish a new colonial outpost, warning that these practices threaten agricultural lands and negatively impact Palestinian residents.
On Monday evening, Israeli colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks across several areas Nablus and occupied Jerusalem, injuring Palestinians, blocking roads, and attempting to provoke confrontations under the protection of Israeli forces.
On Saturday at dawn, Israeli colonizers attempted to set fire to a Palestinian home in the village of Duma.
On Sunday night, Israeli occupation forces and paramilitary colonizers invaded the Khirbet Shu’ab al-Batem Bedouin community in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part, storming several Palestinian homes, assaulting residents, and deliberately smashing and vandalizing household belongings.
On Saturday, Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank, assaulting and injuring Palestinian civilians, attempting to break into homes, blocking roads, and damaging property in multiple districts. Earlier, the colonizers killed a Palestinian near Ramallah.
On Saturday evening, Israeli colonizers shot and killed a Palestinian young man after invading the village of Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that the young man, Ali Majed Hamadna, 23, was killed by Israeli colonizers in the village of Deir Jarir.
Early at dawn on Saturday, a group of Israeli paramilitary colonizers invaded the village of Al‑Minya, southeast of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, and used a high‑intensity floodlight to illuminate Palestinian homes.
On Saturday at dawn, Israeli paramilitary colonizers attempted to set fire to a Palestinian home in the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, early Saturday at dawn, in a new attack targeting a community that has faced repeated arson attempts over the years.
According to The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, colonizers carried out 497 attacks during March, concentrated in:
- Nablus: 113 attacks
- Hebron: 110 attacks
- Ramallah and al‑Bireh: 90 attacks
The Commission documented:
- 256 acts of property vandalism
- 51 cases of seizure and theft of Palestinian-owned property
- Widespread attacks on agricultural land
With direct support from the Israeli military, colonizers uprooted, destroyed, or poisoned 2,286 trees, including 2,121 olive trees, causing extensive damage to Palestinian livelihoods.
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.
