Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of assaults, land seizures, and property destruction across the occupied West Bank on Monday, targeting Palestinian communities in the Jericho area, the Hebron district, the Jerusalem region, the Nablus area, and the Ramallah district, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
Two Palestinians were injured in the evening when colonizers attacked the Al‑Haththoura Bedouin community near the Khan Al‑Ahmar area, south of Jericho in the eastern West Bank.
Hassan Mleihat, the general supervisor of the Al‑Baydar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, said the colonizers assaulted residents with sticks and sprayed them with pepper spray while Israeli forces stood by. The two injured Palestinians were identified as Dawoud Ara’ra and Mahmoud Ara’ra.
In the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron in the southern West Bank, armed colonizers attacked a Palestinian shepherd and stole seven of his sheep. Anti‑colonization activist Osama Makhamra said the armed group chased shepherd Haitham Ayed Mar, blocked his path near the Ad‑Daqeeqa area, beat him severely, causing bruises, and smashed his mobile phone.
Makhamra added that another armed colonizer attempted to assault residents in the Huwara area of Masafer Yatta before releasing his livestock into Palestinian agricultural fields near the home of Khalil Mahmoud Al‑Hammamda, damaging crops.
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In the same region, Israeli forces installed a new iron gate between the towns of Beit Ummar and Surif, west of Beit Ummar in the Hebron district, further restricting Palestinian movement.
In the Jerusalem area, the Jerusalem Governorate reported that colonizers invaded the home of Yousef Al‑Zawahra in the Khallet Al‑Sadra Bedouin community near Mikhmas, north of occupied Jerusalem.
The colonizers vandalized the home, stole a water tank, and blocked the road leading to the property. The governorate said the attack is part of an escalating campaign targeting Bedouin communities around Jerusalem, aiming to damage property, impose new facts on the ground, and pressure residents off their land for colonial expansion.
The governorate added that colonizers continue expanding a recently established colonial outpost on Palestinian‑owned land in Anata, east of occupied Jerusalem, by adding new structures and bulldozing surrounding areas in an effort to solidify the outpost and turn it into a permanent colony.
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It noted a sharp rise in colonizer attacks in northern and eastern Jerusalem, coinciding with Israeli policies designed to expand colonial control and isolate the city from its Palestinian surroundings.
In the Nablus area in the northern West Bank, colonizers bulldozed land and paved a colonial road on the lands of Al‑Lubban Al‑Sharqiya, south of Nablus. Local sources said colonizers paved a road in the Wadi Yasuf area north of the village and uprooted several olive saplings. In the Wadi Ali area southeast of the village, colonizers bulldozed additional land and fenced it off.
In the Ramallah district in the central West Bank, colonizers cut down 21 olive trees in the village of Al‑Mughayyir, east of Ramallah. Local sources said the attack took place in the Sahl Marj Si’ area west of Al‑Mughayyir, adjacent to lands belonging to the neighboring village of Abu Falah.
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The trees, more than fifty years old, belonged to a resident of Abu Falah. The colonizers withdrew after destroying the grove.
On Sunday, communities across the occupied West Bank witnessed a wave of attacks as illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded multiple Palestinian areas, damaged homes and agricultural property, and forced residents and shepherds from their lands in the southern West Bank, central West Bank, occupied Jerusalem, Nablus in the northern West Bank, and the northern Jordan Valley.
Earlier Wednesday, a Palestinian young man succumbed to injuries he sustained during a settler attack in the village of Mikhmas, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced late Wednesday that 19-year-old Nasrallah Mohammad Jamal Abu Siyam, 19, died of injuries he sustained during an Israeli settler incursion into the village of Mikhmas.
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.
