In a coordinated wave of colonizer violence, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out two attacks Monday night—uprooting over 150 olive trees in the northern Jordan Valley and attempting to burn down a Palestinian home near Ramallah.
These attacks, part of a growing pattern of land seizure and intimidation, underscore the systematic nature of settler aggression across the occupied West Bank.
Late Monday night, the colonizers invaded the village of Bardala, located in the northern Jordan Valley, where they deliberately cut and uprooted approximately 150 mature olive trees in the Qa’oun plain.
The grove belongs to Palestinian farmer Sultan Rashid Mabsalt, whose family relies on the harvest for their livelihood.
That same evening, the colonizers invaded Yabrud, a village east of Ramallah in the central West Bank, where they torched one vehicle, smashed several others, and attempted to set fire to the home of Ahmad Zawahra, breaking windows before fleeing the scene.
Since the establishment of a new illegal colonialist outpost west of Bardala roughly 18 months ago, the colonizers have increasingly seized grazing lands, burned civilian property, and sabotaged agricultural fields.
In related news, Israeli soldiers closed the roadblock at the northern entrance to Al-Bireh city, in addition to Atara and Ein Siniya roadblocks, north of Ramallah.
In addition, Israeli bulldozers closed several side roads in the village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
Israeli military bulldozers blocked multiple secondary routes on the northern and eastern sides of the village’s agricultural plain and carried out land-leveling operations on privately owned Palestinian land.
Since October 7, Israeli forces have kept the main entrance to Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya sealed with an iron gate and earth mounds, forcing residents to rely on rugged, unpaved detours to access nearby areas.
Also Monday, five Palestinian civilians sustained fractures and contusions after being violently assaulted by Israeli colonizers in the town of Beit Fajjar, located south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
Observers warn that such attacks are not random but part of a strategic campaign to forcibly displace Palestinian farmers and expand settler control over key areas.
The destruction of olive trees, many of them decades old, is a calculated tactic used especially during harvest season to terrorize families and sever their connection to the land.
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.
In addition, the paramilitary colonizers established a new illegal colonialist outpost, Monday, 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.
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 more than 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.
