Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of assaults across the occupied West Bank on Friday, targeting children, shepherds, farmers, solidarity activists, and journalists in multiple communities from the northern Jordan Valley to the central and southern regions, while Israeli occupation forces provided protection and directly participated in several of the attacks.
In the northern Jordan Valley, colonizers assaulted a child in the Khirbet al‑Makhoul area of the northeastern West Bank.
Local sources said the colonizers attacked 12‑year‑old Ahmad Burhan Bisharat while he was herding his family’s livestock near their tents, leaving him bruised and traumatized.
In the central West Bank, two young Palestinian men were assaulted in an area north of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit.
Eyewitnesses said armed colonizers attacked the two men while they were in the area, beating them and causing multiple bruises before fleeing toward nearby colonial outposts.
Colonizers also uprooted and bulldozed Palestinian agricultural land in the town of Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah in the central West Bank.
Local sources said colonizer‑operated bulldozers destroyed dozens of olive trees while leveling land on the outskirts of the town as part of ongoing expansion of colonial outposts surrounding the illegal colony of Shilo, built on privately owned Palestinian land.
In the Tubas district in the northeastern West Bank, colonizers stole approximately 150 sheep belonging to Ahmad Hamdan Hussein Jaber from the village of Aqqaba, triggering hours of tension as residents attempted to track the stolen livestock.
The situation escalated further when Israeli occupation forces assaulted residents in Aqqaba during a colonizer attack on the village.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Tubas said its medical teams treated 12 Palestinians who sustained bruises and other injuries after Israeli soldiers beat them.
The assault occurred as armed colonizers advanced toward the village under full military protection, opening live fire at residents while soldiers remained deployed around the area.
Villagers had been searching since early morning for the stolen livestock, combing nearby hills and farmland as Israeli forces continued to surround the community.
In the southern West Bank, armed colonizers attacked residents and shepherds in the Rajoum al‑Ali area of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, beating them and attempting to drive them off their land.
Local activists reported that colonizers assaulted several residents before Israeli forces arrived and reinforced the colonizers’ presence.
In the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, colonizers opened live fire at residents, attacked solidarity activists, and beat a Palestinian man with metal bats.
The colonizers also invaded Palestinian homes and assaulted residents, activists, and independent journalists, pushing, punching, and headbutting them, in addition to pepper‑spraying them and causing various injuries.
When Israeli forces arrived at the scene, they did not intervene to stop the colonizers. Instead, soldiers detained the activists and abducted several Palestinians, including a 13‑year‑old boy, while another injured resident who required medical evacuation was detained rather than transported by ambulance.
These attacks come amid a sharp escalation in colonizer violence across the occupied West Bank, often carried out under the protection of Israeli forces and accompanied by land seizures, livestock theft, and assaults on Palestinian civilians.
