Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out numerous assaults Friday evening across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank, targeting Palestinian civilians and property in the Northern Plains region and Tubas in northeastern region of the West Bank.
In Al-Farisiya, in the northeastern Jordan Valley, colonizers destroyed solar energy equipment belonging to local resident Ahmad Hussein Abu Mohsen.
Eyewitnesses stated that the Israeli assailants cut and dismantled solar panel cables during a nighttime raid.
In a separate incident, paramilitary colonizers stormed Khirbet Samra in the Northern Plains, where they intimidated residents and threatened families.
Local sources reported that the colonizers moved in groups, brandishing weapons and spreading fear among children and the elderly.
Later that evening, colonizers assaulted a Palestinian shepherd, Ibrahim Kamel Daraghma, in Khirbet Yarza east of Tubas.
Khirbet Yizra village council head, Mukhlis Masa’id, stated that the attackers beat Daraghma while he was tending his flock and stole his mobile phone.
The northern Jordan Valley has witnessed a sharp escalation in colonizer violence, including home invasions, property destruction, livestock theft, and the systematic harassment of Palestinian herders. Colonizers have repeatedly blocked access to grazing lands and assaulted shepherds, often under the protection of Israeli forces.
On Friday morning, Israeli colonizers attacked Palestinian farmers harvesting olives in Beita, south of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, before Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs at the famers, and assaulted some of them, causing several injuries.
On Friday night, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian young man, Mohammad Adnan Yousef Salama, 25, and wounded a child near the Cinema Roundabout in the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Since October 7, 2023, colonizers have carried out 7,154 documented attacks against Palestinians and their property, resulting in the killing of 34 civilians and the forced displacement of 33 Bedouin communities.
These communities, comprising 455 families and 2,853 individuals, have been uprooted from their homes and relocated under duress, according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.
The ongoing violence has deepened fear and instability across the region, particularly among vulnerable populations. Local officials and rights groups continue to call for international protection and accountability.
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.
