In a fresh wave of aggression, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers stormed a Bedouin village in the al-Hathrawa area near Khan al-Ahmar, east of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, on Wednesday evening.
According to field activist Daoud Arfa’ra of the Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouins and Targeted Villages, the colonizers roamed between tents and homes, shouting provocative slogans aimed at intimidating residents and pressuring them to abandon the area.
He added that the colonizers tampered with family belongings and blocked dirt roads leading to the village.
Al-Baydar described the incursion as part of a sustained Israeli campaign targeting Bedouin communities around Jerusalem, designed to seize land and expand illegal colonies.
The organization condemned the actions as a blatant violation of international law and a systematic attempt to dismantle Palestinian presence in Area C.
Later the same evening, colonizers attacked Palestinian vehicles at the entrance to Deir Nitham village, northwest of Ramallah in the central West Bank.
Local sources reported that the colonizers hurled stones at passing cars, damaging several and shattering their windows.
Also Wednesday, Israeli colonizers cut down dozens of olive trees belonging to citizens in the Nablus and Hebron governorates, in the northern and southern parts of the occupied West Bank.
In addition, Israeli paramilitary colonizers set fire to two civilian vehicles during an assault on the town of Surif, northwest of Hebron.
According to the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, Israeli occupation forces and colonizers have carried out at least 259 documented assaults on Palestinian olive harvesters since early October.
These include 41 attacks by soldiers and 218 by colonizers, encompassing physical violence, abductions, movement restrictions, intimidation, and live fire.
The Commission also recorded 125 separate attacks on olive groves this season, including 46 cases of cutting, uprooting, or bulldozing trees—resulting in the destruction of at least 1,070 olive trees. The most affected governorates are Ramallah and al-Bireh, Nablus, and Hebron.
These coordinated assaults not only undermine a cornerstone of Palestinian rural livelihood but also function as a mechanism of displacement and land seizure, reinforcing the apartheid regime’s broader strategy of erasure and annexation.
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.
