Five Palestinian civilians sustained fractures and contusions Monday evening after being violently assaulted by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers in the town of Beit Fajjar, located south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
Eyewitnesses said a group of colonizers attacked several farmers from the Taqatqa family while they were working their land in the Wadi Seif area.
The assailants used clubs and stones, and unleashed attack dogs that mauled the victims’ bodies. All five injured individuals were transferred to a local medical clinic for treatment.
The colonizers also assaulted municipal paramedics from Beit Fajjar, preventing them from reaching the wounded and administering emergency care.
In a further escalation, the colonizers set fire to a vehicle belonging to local resident Mohammad Taqatqa.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers torched a vehicle belonging to the family of slain Palestinian student Saji Darwish, 18, in the village of Beitin, near Ramallah in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
On Monday, Israeli paramilitary colonizers established a new illegal colonialist outpost of the Evyatar settlement on top of Sbeih Mountain in the town of Beita, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank’s northern part.
On Saturday, Israeli paramilitary colonizers launched coordinated assaults against Palestinian olive harvesters in several areas of the occupied West Bank, escalating a pattern of seasonal violence that intensifies each year during the olive harvest.
Since October 7, 2023, colonizers have carried out a total of 7,154 documented attacks against Palestinians and their property across the West Bank, resulting in the killing of 34 civilians, according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.
On Friday evening, Israeli colonizers carried out numerous assaults 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.
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 7,155 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.
