Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out multiple attacks on Palestinian residents in the central and northern West Bank on Friday, assaulting families, invading hilltops, and operating under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
In the Ramallah area, in central West Bank, the colonizers attacked Palestinian families who were spending the day in Hamad Park, north of the village of Kafr Ni’ma.
Witnesses said the colonizers approached the area carrying rifles and forced the families to leave.
Israeli occupation forces fired tear gas at the residents to secure the colonizers’ presence and detained several young men from the area.
Further north, colonizers invaded Jabal al‑‘Arma in the town of Beita near Nablus, chasing Palestinian residents and compelling them to withdraw from the hilltop.
Local sources reported that the colonizers remained in the area for an extended period while Israeli forces were deployed nearby.
In a separate incident south of Nablus, colonizers invaded Jabal Ras Zeid in the town of Huwwara, triggering protests.
Witnesses said the colonizers fired live rounds during the incursion, prompting protests before they withdrew under military protection.
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Attacks by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers have escalated sharply across the occupied West Bank in recent months.
Human‑rights groups and UN agencies have documented a rise in armed assaults, land seizures, and attempts to forcibly remove Palestinian communities from agricultural areas and strategic hilltops.
Residents say these coordinated attacks, often carried out alongside Israeli forces, aim to restrict Palestinian access to land and expand outposts in violation of international law.
On Friday morning, Israeli colonizers assaulted a Palestinian farmer in the al‑Mas’udiyya area northwest of Nablus, forcing him off his land and threatening him with further violence if he returned.
The colonizers intensified their attacks on Friday in the southern areas of al‑Mughayyer, east of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, firing live ammunition and invading Palestinian grazing lands under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, who also abducted several international solidarity activists.
On Thursday, Israeli colonizers assaulted an elderly Palestinian man in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, and installed five caravans near Beit Sahour, east of Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank.
On Wednesday, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out multiple attacks across the West Bank, targeting education staff, agricultural land, and residential areas in Tubas in the northeastern West Bank and Ramallah in the central West Bank.
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.
