Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks on Palestinian farmers, shepherds, and homes across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, with the most severe assaults reported in Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank and in the northern Jordan Valley.
Three Palestinians suffered severe pepper‑spray inhalation injuries after armed colonizers attacked their vehicle near Khirbet al‑Fakhit in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
Activist Osama Makhamra stated that the colonizers ambushed the car, pelted it with stones, shattered its windows, and forced it to stop before spraying the passengers directly in the face.
The injured, Emad Ragheb Houshiya, Jibreel Salama, and Maher Younis, were transferred to a hospital for treatment.
In a separate attack in the same region, colonizers hurled stones at the home of Yousef Shannaran in the Wadi al‑Rakhim area, damaging windows, and household property. No injuries were reported.
Later in the evening, three Palestinians were injured by colonizers in Khirbet Samra in the northern Jordan Valley.
Local sources said the colonizers opened live fire in the area before physically assaulting several residents, leaving three with bruises.
In the northern West Bank, colonizers installed a tent on Palestinian‑owned land in the al‑Mas’udiyya area northwest of Nablus.
Thiab Hajji, head of the local land‑defense committee, said colonizers spread throughout the area while farmers were working their fields and released livestock onto the land, destroying crops.
Hajji warned that the area contains a water well that supplies surrounding villages and the city of Nablus, posing a serious threat to the region.
In Masafer Yatta, colonizers also destroyed agricultural trees and crops and chased Palestinian shepherds from their grazing areas.
Makhamra said colonizers released their livestock among farmers’ trees in Wadi al‑Rakhim, uprooting and damaging several olive saplings belonging to Nidal Shanaran.
Also, colonizers, backed by Israeli occupation forces, pursued farmers, and shepherds in the areas of Umm al‑Qubour, Wadi al‑Jawaya, and Rujum I’li, forcing them off their land and preventing access to fields and grazing areas. The colonizers then released their livestock into Palestinian agricultural areas, destroying large quantities of crops.
Makhamra noted that colonizers, under the protection of Israeli forces, have intensified their pursuit of farmers and shepherds, blocking access to agricultural land and natural grazing areas.
He warned that these attacks threaten the survival of local herding communities, whose livestock is their primary, often the only source of income.
Additional colonizer attacks were reported across the central West Bank, where Palestinian vehicles were stoned near the village of Taybeh, east of Ramallah; near the northern entrance of al‑Bireh in the central West Bank; and near the Mikhmas roundabout, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
These coordinated assaults reflect the ongoing escalation of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizer violence across the occupied West Bank, carried out with the protection and support of Israeli occupation forces.
