Israeli soldiers and armed paramilitary colonizers terrorized Palestinian civilians in the Jerusalem area and throughout the West Bank on Sunday, continuing a pattern of escalated attacks on Palestinian civilians by Israeli fanatics and armed thugs, accompanied by and supported by the US-funded Israeli military forces.
Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian Bedouin community, leaving several Palestinians injured and setting their properties on fire in Khallat al-Sidra, near the town of Mikhmas, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, before dawn on Sunday.
This follows a series of violations on Saturday night, leading into Sunday morning. In fact, the Israeli violations into the Palestinian areas have taken place on a daily and nightly basis for the past 25 years, with an increase in attacks beginning in 2023 following a one-day invasion by Hamas fighters into Israel, and another subsequent increase in attacks in the West Bank following the supposed ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza in October 2025.
In the central West Bank, Israeli occupation forces stormed the Al-Masayef neighborhood in Ramallah on Sunday afternoon.
Security sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces stormed the vicinity of the Ministry of Finance and Planning in the Al-Masayef neighborhood in the city of Ramallah, without any arrests or confrontations being reported.
Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Qatana, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, on Sunday evening.
Local sources reported to Wafa news agency that the occupation forces stormed the town, set up a military checkpoint at its entrance, stopped vehicles, searched them, and checked citizens’ IDs, which obstructed traffic.
The same sources added that Israeli occupation soldiers were deployed around the entrance to the town, without any abductions being reported.
This incursion comes within the framework of the policy of oppression pursued by the occupation forces against the towns and villages of Jerusalem Governorate, through military checkpoints and repeated incursions.
Also Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces converted a house in the town of Hizma, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, into a military barracks.
Local sources in the town reported that the Israeli occupation forces stormed the bridge area in the vicinity of the town of Hizma, raided the house of Hajj Wajih Falah Salah al-Din, and forced its residents to leave it by force under the rain, amid live bullets, sound bombs, and tear gas being fired in the vicinity of the place.
In the Bethlehem area (the holiest place on earth to Christians), Israeli paramilitary colonizers, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, continued on Sunday, to install more mobile homes in the Ush Ghrab area in the city of Beit Sahour, east of Bethlehem, as part of expanding the colonial outpost built on Palestinian citizens’ lands.
Abdullah Hamdan, a non-violent peace activist in Bethlehem, reported that large trucks were seen transporting mobile homes to the area, where they were set up to reinforce the colonial outpost that the paramilitary colonizers had established some time ago.
Hamdan pointed out that the paramilitary colonizers had installed five mobile homes a few days earlier in the Ush Ghrab area, in an escalation aimed at imposing new “facts on the ground” to take more territory by force for the Israeli state.
It is noteworthy that the area known as “The Crow’s Nest”, which includes a small military base for the Israeli occupation army, was designated about 15 years ago to build a children’s hospital for the residents of Bethlehem, but the hospital was not built after the colonists began establishing a settlement outpost that they called “Shadima”.
In the southern West Bank, Israeli occupation forces stormed Khirbet al-Mafqara in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, Sunday evening.
In the eastern part of the West Bank, the Israeli occupation forces abducted two young men from the northern Jordan Valley on Sunday evening.
Human rights activist Arif Daraghmeh reported that the Israeli occupation forces abducted two young men, Arif Omar Bisharat and Ali Muhammad Bani Odeh, from Khirbet al-Hadidiya in the northern Jordan Valley.
Earlier on Sunday, Israeli paramilitary colonists protected by the occupation army raided citizens’ tents in Al-Hadidiya.
The Wall and Settlement Resistance Committee of the Palestinian Authority reported that Israel has installed hundreds of barriers and gates across the West Bank in recent years, especially since the outbreak of the war on Gaza in October 2023.
These barriers include metal gates and walls placed at village entrances and between cities, isolating many areas and restricting residents’ freedom of movement.
Palestinians explained that some gates remain closed for hours or even days, forcing people to take longer routes or alter their paths to reach workplaces, schools, and essential services.
These measures are part of a broader policy to fragment the West Bank and impose daily restrictions on residents, including access to education and healthcare, reinforcing Israeli control over Palestinian movement within the occupied territories.
