On Thursday, groups of fanatic illegal Israeli colonizers invaded Palestinian lands across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank and assaulted four Palestinians, causing multiple injuries.
An illegal paramilitary colonizer attacked Khirbet al-Farisiya in the northern Jordan Valley, carrying out a series of provocative actions against the Palestinians.
According to local sources, the colonizer, affiliated with the Rotem illegal colony, stormed the Ehmayyir area of Khirbet al-Farisiya, roamed through civilian tents, deliberately emptied water tanks used for livestock, and stole animal feed.
Khirbet al-Farisiya has been subjected to daily assaults by colonizers, including the invasion of residents’ homes, the terrorization of families, forced removal from pastures, and the assault or theft of livestock.
In the central West Bank, several illegal paramilitary colonizers stormed the outskirts of Turmus Ayya, a town north of Ramallah, after re-establishing an outpost on stolen Palestinian land in the town’s valley.
Local sources reported that the colonizers entered the Wadi al-Hamam area and positioned themselves near residential homes under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
Earlier, the colonizers had rebuilt the agricultural outpost that had been dismantled by Israeli authorities the previous day.
In Bethlehem, a young Palestinian man sustained injuries after colonizers from the Gush Etzion illegal colony, located south of the city, attacked him near the colony.
Media sources reported that the assailants targeted the man, who hails from the town of Sa’ir, north of Hebron, while he was working on Palestinian-owned land near Etzion.
The attack caused various cuts and bruises, and local medics transported him to a hospital in Bethlehem for treatment.
In Nablus, in the northern West Bank, the colonizers assaulted several Palestinians on a street near the Al-Mas’udiyya village, northwest of the city, wounding three.
Last Sunday, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers, accompanied by Israeli occupation soldiers, bulldozed several plots of land belonging to Palestinian residents in the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
Also Sunday, a group of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out an attack on an agricultural structure belonging to Palestinian citizen Nimir Ezzat in the northwestern area of Kafr ad-Deek, west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
Early Friday morning, at least 30 Palestinian families were forcibly displaced from the Arab al-Mleihat Bedouin community, situated at the end of the Mu’arrajat road northwest of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
Last Monday, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers set fire to hundreds of dunams of Palestinian farmland and seized nearly one hundred head of livestock in the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
Also Monday, a group of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, invaded Palestinian olive orchards in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, and destroyed more than 150 olive saplings.
On Monday morning, a young Palestinian man sustained injuries after being deliberately rammed by an illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizer near the town of Salfit in the central part of occupied West Bank.
On Saturday, Israeli paramilitary colonizers attacked Palestinian towns and villages throughout the West Bank – part of a trend of increasing colonizer violence against the indigenous Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that rising settler violence in the occupied West Bank is intensifying the forced displacement of Palestinians and severely restricting their access to essential resources.
According to OCHA, Israeli settlers have carried out approximately 740 attacks during the first half of this year alone. These assaults have resulted in the injury of at least 340 Palestinians and caused widespread property damage.
The office emphasized that the spike in settler-led violence poses a serious threat to the livelihoods and physical safety of Palestinian communities, further compounding an already fragile humanitarian situation.
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 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.”
