Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a wide wave of coordinated attacks on Thursday targeting Palestinian Bedouin communities, agricultural areas, and civilian property across the occupied West Bank, including regions east of occupied Jerusalem, north and east of Ramallah in the central West Bank, south of Hebron in the southern West Bank, and the northern Jordan Valley.
In the area of Khan Al‑Ahmar east of occupied Jerusalem, groups of colonizers invaded the vicinity of the Al‑Mahtoush Bedouin community belonging to the Al‑Ar’ara family.
The Al‑Baidar Organization for Human Rights reported that colonizers spread around Palestinian homes, causing fear among residents.
The organization said the invasion is part of ongoing attacks aimed at pressuring and destabilizing Bedouin communities in the Jerusalem periphery.
Earlier in the day, colonizers also invaded the Al‑Ar’ara Bedouin community in the Wadi Zreiq area northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
According to Al‑Baidar, the colonizers attempted to steal livestock belonging to a local resident before villagers confronted them. The organization noted that such attacks are part of a pattern targeting Bedouin livelihoods and grazing lands.
In the southern West Bank, colonizers released their livestock onto Palestinian agricultural lands in the Al‑Qarn area in Al‑Maniya area east of Sa’ir, north of Hebron, damaging crops, and grazing areas.
At the same time, colonizers brought new mobile homes to expand an illegal colonial outpost built on the lands of the village of Birin east of Hebron.
In the northern Jordan Valley, colonizers assaulted several young Palestinian men in the Ras Al‑Ahmar area southeast of Tubas, spraying them with pepper spray.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said it received a report of an injured man but that a colonizer’s vehicle blocked its crews from reaching him.
Kamal Bani Odah, Director of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society office in Tubas, said colonizers detained several young men from the “Ekhliyya Al‑Aghwar Society” who were accompanied by international solidarity activists, seized their vehicle, and assaulted one of them with pepper spray.
The colonizers later handed two of the detained Palestinians over to Israeli soldiers, who continued to hold them.
In the central West Bank, colonizer bulldozers began leveling Palestinian‑owned land east of the town of Taybeh, east of Ramallah.
Al‑Baidar reported that the bulldozing took place near the Abu Faza’ housing area and is part of escalating attempts to seize agricultural and grazing lands and impose new facts on the ground.
Meanwhile, Israeli bulldozers continued carving a colonial road on Palestinian land north of the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah.
Also in the central West Bank, colonizers invaded the “Jabal Al‑Qarqa’a” area between the towns of Al‑Mazra’a and Sinjil, threatened Bedouin families living there, and gave them a one‑day ultimatum to evacuate the area. Residents reported that colonizers repeated the invasion and threats later in the day.
In Nablus in the northern West Bank, colonizers attacked Palestinian vehicles with stones near the Za’tara military roadblock, damaging several cars. No injuries were reported.
These attacks come amid a sharp escalation in colonizer violence across the occupied West Bank, often carried out under the protection of Israeli soldiers and aimed at displacing Palestinian communities, particularly Bedouin families living in strategic areas targeted for colonial expansion.
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.
