Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers set fire to dozens of olive trees in the village of Majdal Bani Fadel, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, on Sunday evening.
The attack, carried out under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, targeted vast stretches of cultivated land and was part of a broader campaign of harassment and land seizure.
Rami Nassar, head of the village council, stated that the colonizers came from a newly established illegal outpost erected five months ago on village land.
They planted mobile homes (“caravans”) and seized dozens of dunums, which they have since cultivated.
On Sunday, they returned to torch the olive groves and block residents from extinguishing the flames.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission reported 2,350 Israeli violations in October alone—1,584 by occupation forces and 766 by colonizers.
These included physical assaults, arson, property theft, home demolitions, and systematic obstruction of olive harvests. The majority of these crimes were concentrated in Ramallah and al-Bireh (542), Nablus (412), and Hebron (401).
The deliberate destruction of olive trees—symbols of rootedness and resilience—underscores the colonial intent to erase Palestinian presence and sever ties to ancestral land.
A Palestinian man was injured Sunday morning after being assaulted by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers in the village of Umm al-Khair, in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
On Saturday, Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers launched coordinated assaults across the occupied West Bank, targeting Palestinian towns, refugee camps, and agricultural lands, resulting in injuries and property destruction.
On Saturday morning, illegal Israeli colonizers attacked citizens and international activists while they were picking olives in the village of Burin, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
Earlier Saturday, six Palestinians—including volunteer medics, journalists, and a local farmer—were injured during an assault by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers in the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
This escalation follows the killing of two Palestinian children—Mohammad Abdullah Taym (16 years old) and Mohammad Rashad Fadl Qasim (16 years old), by Israeli forces the previous night. The boys were shot near the apartheid wall in the upper neighborhood of Al-Jadira. Their bodies remain withheld by the occupation.
Also Saturday, Israeli colonizers stole olive crops from Palestinian land in the town of Aqraba, located south of Nablus.
The occupied West Bank witnessed an unprecedented surge in violations by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers—during October 2025, marking the highest monthly toll in nearly two decades, the United Nations said.
n the early hours of Saturday morning, Israeli colonizers set fire to a Palestinian home in the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
On Friday, Israeli colonizers demolished residential tents and livestock shelters belonging to Palestinian residents in Khirbet Hamsa, in the northern Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, on Friday.
On Thursday, Israeli colonizers carried out a number of attacks, injuring a child and destroying olive trees, after targeting Palestinians and their property, in the occupied West Bank.
Furthermore, Israeli colonizers invaded the Bedouin community of Al-Hathrawa near Khan al-Ahmar, east of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, and demolished four mobile homes used by local families.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission documented 766 colonizer attacks in October alone, concentrated in the districts of Ramallah and Al-Bireh (195), Nablus (179), and Hebron (126). These included 352 incidents of theft and vandalism targeting Palestinian property and farmland.
Among the victims was Jihad Mohammad Ajaj, 26, from Deir Jarir, who was shot and killed by colonizers in a direct armed assault. His death brings the number of Palestinians killed by colonizer gunfire since the start of 2025 to 14.
Colonizer violence, often carried out with the backing of Israeli occupation forces, also led to the uprooting, burning, and poisoning of over 1,200 olive trees—an emblem of Palestinian heritage and sustenance.
It is worth mentioning that, on Wednesday, Israeli occupation authorities issued two new tenders for the construction of a colonial neighborhood in the illegal colony of Adam (Givat Binyamin), built on stolen Palestinian land northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
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.
