Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers cut and uprooted nearly 300 olive trees in the town of Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank.
Local residents said the attack targeted agricultural land surrounding the Awad family home, an area that has been subjected to repeated assaults by colonizers operating under the protection of the Israeli army.
Farmers discovered the destruction early Thursday morning, finding hundreds of trees uprooted and scattered across the fields.
The incident comes amid a sharp escalation in colonizer violence across the West Bank, where Palestinian property, farmland, and infrastructure have been systematically targeted.
According to recent field documentation, colonizers have carried out 349 acts of vandalism and theft in recent months, damaging large areas of agricultural land and inflicting heavy financial losses on Palestinian families.
These coordinated assaults, often carried out with direct military support, have resulted in the uprooting, burning, or poisoning of at least 1,245 olive trees across several governorates, including 750 trees in Hebron, 245 in Ramallah, and 250 in Nablus.
Olive trees represent an essential source of income for thousands of families, and their destruction forms part of a broader pattern of land seizure, forced displacement, and expansion of illegal Israeli colonies throughout the occupied West Bank.
Late on Wednesday, Israeli colonizers invaded the area surrounding Palestinian homes in Khirbet Samra village, in the northern Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, late Wednesday, carrying out provocative actions and throwing stones toward livestock enclosures, according to local sources.
Earlier on Wednesday, the colonizers destroyed Palestinian agricultural land on in two separate areas, releasing cattle onto wheat and barley fields in Khirbet Samra, and cutting more than 70 olive trees along with dozens of evergreen forest trees in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
These ongoing violations form part of a broader pattern of colonizer expansion and pressure on Palestinian communities across the northern Jordan Valley and other parts of the West Bank, where families face continuous threats, land seizures, and attempts to force them from their homes.
On Sunday, Israeli force issued a military order mandating the forced displacement of a Bedouin community in al‑Mughayyir east of 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.
