Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks across multiple West Bank villages on Saturday, invading residential areas, targeting Palestinian vehicles, and damaging property in Ramallah, Nablus, and Masafer Yatta.
In Ein Yabrud, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, Israeli colonizers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, attacked Palestinian vehicles, causing damage, in addition to obstructing traffic.
Also, the colonizers invaded the village of Shuqba, northwest of Ramallah, reaching the northern edge of the community.
During the invasion, the colonizers broke into a home and a playground, tampered with their contents, and withdrew under military protection.
In the Nablus area, in northern West Bank, the colonizers invaded the outskirts of Burin, northwest of the city, conducting a provocative tour between Palestinian homes.
At the same time, Israeli occupation forces invaded Al‑Lubban al‑Sharqiya and Rujeib towns, deploying military vehicles and carrying out provocative patrols through residential neighborhoods.
In Hebron, in the southern West Bank, dozens of colonizers launched a major invasion of Tal Ma’in, an archaeological site in the Yatta desert region.
Media activist, Osama Makhamara, stated that dozens of colonizers, under full military protection, invaded the hilltop site, and erected a menorah, while Israeli occupation forces took over rooftops of nearby homes to secure the invasion.
Colonizers also released livestock into Palestinian agricultural lands, approached the home of Mousa Taleb al‑Najjar in Shu’ab al‑Batem area, invaded the home of Farid al‑Hamamda in the Fateh Sadro area, in addition to destroying fencing and threatening the family, warning they would be forced to leave.
According to The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, Israeli occupation forces and colonizers carried out 2,144 attacks across the West Bank in November:
- 1,523 attacks by the Israeli army
- 621 attacks by colonizers
The highest concentrations were recorded in:
- Ramallah & Al‑Bireh: 360 attacks
- Hebron: 348 attacks
- Bethlehem: 342 attacks
- Nablus: 334 attacks
These figures reflect a sustained escalation in coordinated military‑colonizer violence across the occupied 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.
