On Saturday, groups of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers, squatting on stolen Palestinian lands, conducted numerous violations against the Palestinians and their property across the occupied West Bank.
In occupied Jerusalem, dozens of colonizers stormed the Islamic Bab ar-Rahma Cemetery adjacent to Al-Aqsa Mosque and carried out provocative dances atop the graves.
The cemetery has been subjected to excavation works by Israeli authorities, aimed at establishing infrastructure for a settler-operated cable car project encircling the Old City. These excavations are part of a broader plan to seize the site and impose colonial control.
The Israeli government also plans to convert parts of the cemetery into a “Torah garden” as part of its ongoing colonization projects targeting the occupied city.
In addition, a group of colonizers, accompanied by Israeli occupation forces, attacked the village of Ramon east of Ramallah, in the central West Bank, on Saturday evening.
Ibrahim Al-Khatib, the head of the Ramon village council, stated that the colonizers stormed the village from the northwest, firing live ammunition toward residents and their homes. While no injuries were reported, the assault caused widespread panic.
The colonizers also set fire to agricultural lands surrounding civilian homes. Occupation forces then invaded the area, deploying flares that intensified the blazes and caused extensive damage to Palestinian property.
Earlier in the day, illegal paramilitary colonizers targeted a Bedouin community in the Ein Ayoub area west of Ramallah and assaulted families from the Arab al-Ka’abna tribe northeast of the city.
The Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights reported that colonizers burned tents in the Ein Ayoub community, resulting in severe property damage.
In a separate statement, the organization said colonizers invaded the al-Khalayel area, threatening Arab al-Ka’abna families with eviction and giving them a two-week deadline to vacate their homes and lands.
In Salfit, in the central West Bank, paramilitary colonizers assaulted Palestinian residents while they were working on their land in the village of Farkha, south of the city.
The colonizers opened fire with live ammunition and vandalized ancient olive trees, cutting and smashing them.
Mustafa Hammad, head of the village council, reported that seven colonizers, including two armed, attacked residents in the al-Safha area and destroyed centuries-old olive trees.
Following the assault, Israeli occupation forces detained ten Palestinians who had been targeted by the colonizers.
Hammad added that colonizers routinely graze livestock on Palestinian-owned land, and the area is subjected to repeated attacks aimed at preventing residents from accessing and cultivating their land. These violations are part of a broader strategy to seize territory for colonial expansion.
In Bethlehem, colonizers assaulted several Palestinian farmers Saturday evening while they were working on land belonging to Naeem Mohammad Al-Radi in the Khallet an-Nahla area of Wadi Rahhal village, south of the city.
Eyewitnesses said a group of colonizers stormed the area and physically attacked the farmers, resulting in varying injuries to Mousa Mohammad Mahmoud Harzallah, Reda Mohammad Mahmoud Harzallah, and Abdullah Ibrahim Ziyada.
The Khallet al-Nahla area has been subjected to repeated assaults by colonizers for years, as part of ongoing efforts to seize agricultural land for settlement expansion.
In the northern Jordan Valley, colonizers stormed Khirbet Samra on Saturday evening. Local sources reported that the colonizers invaded the community and roamed among residents’ tents, instilling fear.
The area faces daily incursions by armed colonizers as part of a sustained campaign to forcibly displace Palestinian residents. This policy aligns with broader Israeli efforts to depopulate the Jordan Valley of its Palestinian communities.
In Jericho, in the northeastern West Bank, a group of armed colonizers invaded Shallal al-Auja and released their sheep among residents’ homes, deliberately damaging property and causing destruction.
Hassan Mleihat, coordinator of the Al-Baidar Organization, noted that Shallal al-Awja is facing an intensifying campaign of attacks aimed at forcibly displacing its residents.
These assaults are part of the Israeli government’s broader strategy to uproot Palestinians from areas classified as “C” in favor of illegal colonial expansion.
Further north, illegal paramilitary colonizers uprooted olive trees Saturday evening from the lands of Khirbet Masoud, southwest of Jenin.
Local sources reported that bulldozers operated by colonizers uprooted several olive trees from Palestinian-owned land to carve colonial roads connecting to the grazing outpost established there in 2019.
Last week, bulldozers belonging to the Israeli occupation began uprooting Palestinian lands and olive groves owned by residents of Zabbouba and Khirbet Masoud. The military marked cultivated plots with orange paint, even though landowners possess official deeds and property titles.
Khirbet Masoud, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Zabbouba village council, consists of three residential clusters: Iraq al-Dawar, Khirbet Faris, and Khirbet al-Qusur, with a population of approximately 350 people.
The occupation continues to bulldoze areas adjacent to the colonial outpost established on the hilltop, seizing dozens of agricultural dunums. The targeted zone stretches from Qaffin to the mountains of Ya’bad, south of Jenin.
On Friday, the paramilitary colonizers uprooted and cut more than 100 grapevines in a targeted attack east of the town of Yatta, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
Also Friday, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers assaulted an elderly Palestinian man with an amputated leg in the Southern Hebron Hills, in Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
On Thursday evening, a group of paramilitary Israeli colonizers launched an assault on the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
A report by the Wall and Colonization Resistance Commission revealed that paramilitary colonizers conducted 466 attacks against Palestinians and their property across the West Bank during July. These assaults resulted in the killing of four civilians and the forced displacement of two Bedouin communities comprising 50 families.
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 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”.
