Israeli colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, injuring residents, destroying agricultural property, targeting workers, and terrorizing herding communities, with several assaults taking place under the protection or presence of Israeli soldiers.
In Hebron in the southern West Bank, four Palestinians were injured when paramilitary colonizers attacked homes and agricultural land in the Wadi Al‑Rakhim and Khallet Al‑Hummus areas south of Yatta.
Anti‑colonization activist Osama Makhamra said the colonizers assaulted residents with pepper spray, causing injuries, bruises, and cases of suffocation. All four were transferred to Yatta Governmental Hospital.
The attackers also uprooted 40 olive trees and 20 forest trees belonging to resident Jibreel Roumi and blocked the road linking the two areas.
In the Bethlehem district in the southern West Bank, colonizers invaded the village of Al‑Rashayda and vandalized a vehicle belonging to the village council, smashing its windshield, and damaging its tires.
Village council head Bakr Rashayda said colonizer attacks have sharply escalated, noting that on Tuesday night armed colonizers invaded the eastern area of the village and fired live rounds near homes, terrifying residents.
He added that colonizers have repeatedly targeted shepherds, blocked access to grazing areas, and stolen livestock.
The community relies heavily on animal husbandry, with approximately 29,000 sheep and goats and 700 camels forming the backbone of its economy.
In a separate incident, colonizer groups closed a road near an outpost tent in the Abu Njeim area south of Bethlehem.
In occupied Jerusalem, colonizers invaded the town of Mikhmas northeast of the city. The Jerusalem Governorate reported that the attackers entered the town, though no injuries were reported.
In the Tubas district in the northeastern West Bank, colonizers wearing military uniforms invaded a grape orchard in the Atouf plain east of the town of Tammun.
Colonization‑monitoring official Mutaz Bisharat said the attackers assaulted workers in the orchard belonging to resident Nazeer Mohammad Bisharat. They seized a private vehicle and a mobile phone and held a truck loaded with grapes before withdrawing.
In the central West Bank, colonizers attacked a staff member from the Jerusalem Water Authority while he was working near the towns of Turmus Ayya and Sinjil north of Ramallah.
Additional colonizer groups erected an outpost tent in the Al‑Qara’na area of Deir Abu Mash’al northwest of Ramallah, while others, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, attacked the village of Sinjil.
In the northern West Bank, colonizers attacked Palestinian vehicles with stones near the Israeli military roadblock at Za’tara south of Nablus, damaging several cars.
Witnesses said the attackers arrived in a private vehicle and targeted passing Palestinian traffic under the protection of soldiers stationed at the roadblock.
The attacks form part of a documented escalation in colonizer violence across the occupied West Bank, where Palestinian communities continue to face home invasions, land destruction, livestock theft, road closures, and assaults carried out with regular military protection.
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.
