Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out multiple coordinated attacks on Palestinians and their property on Sunday and Monday in Bethlehem and Ramallah, firing live rounds, assaulting residents, stoning vehicles, and uprooting olive trees.
In the Bethlehem district, colonizers opened live fire at Palestinians working their land in the Jabal Harasa area east of Beit Sahour. No injuries were reported from the gunfire.
However, colonizers later assaulted 23‑year‑old Omar Muhannad Shallan, beating him severely across his body. He was transferred to Beit Jala Governmental Hospital for treatment.
Local sources noted that colonizers have recently intensified attacks in the Harasa area in attempts to seize land and prevent Palestinians from accessing their property.
On Sunday evening, colonizers attacked Palestinian vehicles at the western entrance of Deir Dibwan east of Ramallah in the central West Bank, gathering under the bridge and stoning passing cars, causing damage, and blocking the town’s entrance.
In a separate attack north of al‑Bireh in the central West Bank, colonizers threw stones at Palestinian vehicles from inside an Israeli military tower positioned at the northern entrance to the city, shattering the windows of several cars.
In the town of Turmus Ayya northeast of Ramallah, colonizers uprooted dozens of olive trees in the Ras al‑Dar area.
Earlier the same day, colonizers had cut down nearly 400 olive trees—some more than 45 years old—in the town’s agricultural plain. The trees belonged to residents Ahmad Abu Salama, Abdul‑Hamid Abu al‑Qatin, and Abdullah Abu al‑Qatin.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission reported that Israeli soldiers and colonizers carried out a total of 1,819 attacks across the occupied West Bank during the month of March.
The Commission stated that Israeli forces were responsible for 1,322 attacks, while colonizers carried out 497, with the highest concentrations recorded in Hebron (321), Nablus (315), Ramallah and al‑Bireh (292), and occupied Jerusalem (203).
It added that these figures reflect a sustained pattern of systematic violence targeting Palestinians, their land, and their property.
