Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers on Monday carried out a series of assaults across the occupied West Bank, including livestock theft in Hebron, physical attacks on a driver near Jericho, the establishment of a new outpost in the northern Jordan Valley, violent assaults on Palestinian vehicles and farmland in the South Hebron Hills, and assaults near Qalqilia, in northern West Bank,
In Birin village southeast of Hebron, in southern West Bank, colonizers from the illegal colony of Kiryat Arba, stole sheep at gunpoint belonging to local resident Nour Azmi Idris, the Village Council head Farid Burqan, said.
In Jericho governorate, in northeastern West Bank, Israeli colonizers assaulted driver Abdul-Rahman Atiyyat from al‑ʿAuja while he was traveling on the Mu’arrajat road linking Jericho and Ramallah.
Atiyyat sustained facial injuries, and his eyeglasses were broken. He urged fellow drivers to travel in groups to reduce exposure to colonizer attacks and ensure safety.
In the northern Jordan Valley, colonizers began constructing a new illegal outpost in Khirbet al‑Hadidiyya.
Mutaz Bisharat, who monitors Israeli colonialist activities in Tubas governorate, confirmed that colonizers have started building after an earlier military order seized hundreds of dunums of Palestinian land in the area earlier this month, followed by bulldozing operations.
In Ramallah, in central West Bank, Israeli colonizers attacked agricultural lands and burnt trees in the town of Atara, north of the city.
In the South Hebron Hills (Masafer Yatta), colonizers from the illegal colony of Shimon and Carmel, along with nearby outposts, attacked Palestinian vehicles with clubs and stones, causing material damage to several cars, including one owned by Abdul-Aziz Nayef al‑Atimin.
The Colonizers also blocked roads leading to al‑Zuwaidin village and Khirbet Fateh Sidra, near Hebron.
At the same time, colonizers plowed and sowed lands east of Shaub al‑Batem village in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, while preventing Palestinian landowners from cultivating their property and seizing their tractors.
In Qalqilia, in northern West Bank, dozens of Israeli colonizers invaded Palestinian farmlands in the northern area of Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the city, amidst heavy Israeli military deployment.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission has reported that Israeli forces and colonizers carried out 2,350 attacks in October alone.
Of these, the Israeli army was responsible for 1,584 assaults, while colonizers committed 766. The highest concentration of attacks occurred in Ramallah and al-Bireh (542), Nablus (412), and Hebron (401).
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.
