A group of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out an attack on an agricultural structure belonging to Palestinian citizen Nimir Ezzat in the northwestern area of Kafr ad-Deek, west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
Local sources said the colonizers infiltrated Ezzat’s land in the Thaher Sobeh area of the town’s northern part, forcibly broke the door and windows of the farm structure, and deliberately destroyed its contents.
This assault is not an isolated incident as the area has endured repeated violations targeting agricultural facilities and private properties, forming part of a broader campaign to seize land and forcibly displace its Palestinian owners.
In a related statement, Salfit Governor Major General Mustafa Taqatqa reported that the governorate documented 296 violations by Israeli occupation forces during June 2025 alone.
These included 73 invasions, the erection of 32 temporary military roadblocks, 31 closures of town entrances using metal gates, the storming of 64 homes and establishments, and the abduction or detention of 41 residents during these invasions or at the military roadblocks.
Governor Taqatqa further noted that the occupation escalated its field operations against Palestinian farmers by confiscating four agricultural vehicles, executing five direct attacks on citizens and their property, and bulldozing approximately 30 dunams of Palestinian land in Salfit, Yasuf, and Deir Ballout for illegal colonialist expansion. Eight stop-work orders were also issued to halt construction and agricultural activities.
Additionally, the governorate’s report documented 23 assaults by paramilitary colonizers, including the destruction of farmland, arson against civilian property, stone throwing attacks targeting Palestinian vehicles, and physical assault that left citizen Nasser Naji injured.
Five cases involved documented looting and vandalism, including the uprooting and breaking of 150 olive trees in the towns of Sarta and Deir Ballout.
Early Friday morning, at least 30 Palestinian families were forcibly displaced from the Arab al-Mleihat Bedouin community, situated at the end of the Mu’arrajat road northwest of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
Last Monday, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers set fire to hundreds of dunams of Palestinian farmland and seized nearly one hundred head of livestock in the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
Also Monday, a group of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, invaded Palestinian olive orchards in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, and destroyed more than 150 olive saplings.
On Monday morning, a young Palestinian man sustained injuries after being deliberately rammed by an illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizer near the town of Salfit in the central part of occupied West Bank.
On Saturday, Israeli paramilitary colonizers attacked Palestinian towns and villages throughout the West Bank – part of a trend of increasing colonizer violence against the indigenous Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that rising settler violence in the occupied West Bank is intensifying the forced displacement of Palestinians and severely restricting their access to essential resources.
According to OCHA, Israeli settlers have carried out approximately 740 attacks during the first half of this year alone. These assaults have resulted in the injury of at least 340 Palestinians and caused widespread property damage.
The office emphasized that the spike in settler-led violence poses a serious threat to the livelihoods and physical safety of Palestinian communities, further compounding an already fragile humanitarian situation.
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.”Early Friday morning, at least 30 Palestinian families were forcibly displaced from the Arab al-Mleihat Bedouin community, situated at the end of the Mu’arrajat road northwest of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
