Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank between Thursday night and early Friday morning, torching vehicles, burning a classroom inside a school, and blocking access to a Bedouin community near Jerusalem.
The assaults reflect a sustained escalation in organized colonizer violence carried out under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
Before dawn on Friday, colonizers invaded the village of Bizzariya, north of Nablus in the northern West Bank, and set fire to five Palestinian vehicles.
The attackers moved through the village in the early hours, igniting multiple cars and spray‑painting racist slogans on nearby walls before withdrawing. Residents awoke to charred vehicles and extensive property damage.
The attack came just hours after another pre‑dawn assault south of Nablus, where colonizers infiltrated the grounds of Jaloud Mixed Secondary School and set fire to a classroom.
Local sources said the colonizers broke into the school compound, ignited a blaze inside one of the rooms, and scrawled racist and anti‑Arab slogans on the exterior walls.
The fire caused significant damage to school facilities and left behind a scene that educators described as an attempt to terrorize students and staff.
The overnight attacks in Bizzariya, Jaloud, and Khallet al‑Sidra fit the same pattern documented throughout the past year—organized, repeated, and increasingly brazen assaults aimed at inflicting material damage, spreading fear, and forcing Palestinian communities from their land.
Later on Thursday evening, another group of colonizers blocked the only access road leading to the Bedouin community of Khallet al‑Sidra near the village of Mikhmas, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
The Jerusalem Governorate reported that the community has faced repeated invasions and harassment by colonizers and Israeli forces, part of a broader campaign aimed at pressuring Palestinian Bedouin communities to leave their land.
On Thursday afternoon, an elderly Palestinian was among several people injured when illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked the Al‑Junaidi agricultural nursery and the surrounding area near Deir Sharaf, northwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank’s northern part. The assault involved severe beatings, the torching of vehicles, and extensive property damage
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission stated that colonizer attacks—carried out with the backing and protection of Israeli forces—have already displaced more than 33 Palestinian Bedouin communities since October 7, 2023.
The Commission’s annual data highlights the scale of the violence: in 2024 alone, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers committed 4,723 attacks against Palestinians and their property across the West Bank.
These assaults resulted in the killing of 14 Palestinians, dozens of injuries, and the ignition of 434 fires, including 307 fires targeting homes, vehicles, and civilian structures, and 127 fires set in agricultural fields and orchards.
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.
