On Friday morning, groups of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers invaded several Palestinian villages in Nablus and Hebron, in the northern and the southern parts of the occupied West Bank.
Local sources reported that colonizers invaded the outskirts of al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya and ‘Ammuriya, south of Nablus, on foot.
Four additional vehicles carrying colonizers simultaneously invaded Mount Tarouja, located between the two villages, accompanied by Israeli soldiers. The group later withdrew via dirt roads leading toward the Ariel colony, built on stolen Palestinian lands west of Salfit.
In a separate incident, colonizers invaded the Tel Ma’in site in the town of al-Karmel, south of Hebron.
Eyewitnesses said the colonizers invaded privately owned Palestinian land and photographed several archaeological landmarks, including an ancient olive press and the ruins of a Roman palace.
Earlier on Friday morning, Israeli paramilitary colonizers attacked Palestinian farmers harvesting olives in Beita, south of Nablus, before Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs at the famers, and assaulted some of them, causing several injuries.
These incursions are part of a broader campaign of illegal land seizure and appropriation across the occupied West Bank.
Human rights organizations have documented a sharp rise in colonizer-led invasions of Palestinian heritage sites, often under the protection of Israeli forces.
On Wednesday night, Israeli colonizers killed a Palestinian young man, Jihad Mohammad Ajaj, 26, and shot five others in two separate attacks in the central West Bank governorate of Ramallah, on Wednesday night.
Last Sunday, Israeli paramilitary colonizers escalated their assaults on Palestinian farmland across the occupied West Bank, uprooting ancient olive trees, stealing harvests, and deepening their grip on seized agricultural areas.
On Saturday, Israeli colonizers opened fire towards Palestinians near Nablus, while occupation forces abducted an international activist in Masafer Yatta.
Also Saturday, Israeli colonizers launched several incursions across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank’s Northern Plains, targeting Palestinian communities and infrastructure.
Earlier in the day, Israeli colonizers carried out coordinated attacks in two areas of the occupied West Bank—Masafer Yatta near Hebron in the south, and Al-Auja near Jericho in the northeast.
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.
