Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers attacked, invaded and destroyed Palestinian towns, villages and farmland on Monday, while Israeli troops continued violations across area in the north, south and central West Bank Monday. This is in addition to the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian population in Gaza, where 2.4 million civilians are being systematically starved to death following the utter devastation of their homes and lives over the past 653 days.
The following attacks by Israeli soldiers and fanatic Israeli paramilitary colonizers were documented on Monday:
Jerusalem:
Israeli colonizers attack Palestinian workers, chanting ‘Death to Arabs’:
Southern West Bank:
Bethlehem:
Israeli fanatic right-wing paramilitary colonizers on Monday set up a number of caravans in the areas of Al-Makhrour in Beit Jala city and Al-Khammar in Battir town, west of Bethlehem governorate, in a move aimed at expanding existing colonial outposts and increasing Israeli colonization of Palestinian land in the Bethlehem area (home to the world’s oldest Christian population, with many families having lived there continuously for 2000 years).
Security sources told WAFA news that Israeli colonizers brought Recreation Vehicles, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, and set them up adjacent to the Israeli colonial outposts established in the two areas, which are separated by open agricultural areas owned by Palestinian citizens.
The Makhrour area is one of the last open green spaces west of Beit Jala, and includes lands planted with olive, grape, and fig trees, owned by Palestinian families for generations. The Khamar area in the village of Battir is classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its historic agricultural terraces and unique irrigation system that has been in operation for thousands of years.
The western areas of the Bethlehem Governorate, particularly Beit Jala and Battir, are witnessing an increase in colonial activity, manifested in the establishment of new outposts and the expansion of existing ones, and the construction of colonial roads that cut through agricultural land, amid increasing restrictions on the movement of farmers and the prevention of Palestinian farmers from accessing their lands.
In Kisan village, east of Bethlehem, Israeli paramilitary colonizers attacked a child, Ibrahim Mustafa Ibrahim Al-Abayat (15 years old), with an electric taser while he was returning from the town of Tuqu to his home in the village of Kisan, east of Bethlehem .
The Secretary of the Fatah Movement in Kisan, Ahmed Ghazal, told Wafa news that Israeli colonizers intercepted the child near the Minya roundabout on the main street, pursued him, and shot an electric taser at him, causing minor injuries to his hand.
Ghazal stressed that this attack comes within the context of a systematic escalation practiced by colonizers against citizens, especially children, in villages east and southeast of Bethlehem, noting that the colonizers are directly targeting citizens with complete impunity.
In the West Bank, which has been under Israeli martial law since 1967, with an increase in military presence since the 1993 Oslo Accords (which were supposed to allow Palestinian self-determination, but which instead ushered in a massive land grab of Palestinian land by Israelis — mainly immigrants to Israel), Israeli paramilitary colonizers are allowed to attack Palestinians with complete impunity, as the Israeli military is ordered only to control the Palestinian population, and the Palestinian police have no authority over the Israeli paramilitary colonizers .
Ghazal said, “We witness a daily series of attacks targeting children and farmers, ranging from harassment, intimidation, physical assault, and even the unleashing of trained dogs, all under the protection of the occupation army.”
Ghazal called on local and international human rights and humanitarian organizations to urgently intervene to provide protection for citizens, particularly in Area C, which is witnessing a continued escalation by colonizers.
Villages east of Bethlehem, particularly Kisan, Al-Minya, and Tuqu’, are witnessing a dangerous escalation in colonizers’ attacks in an attempt to impose control over the lands and displace the population, as part of a systematic Israeli policy targeting the Palestinian presence in agricultural and open areas .
It is noteworthy that the village of Kisan is surrounded by several illegal Israeli colonies, most notably “Ma’ale Amos” and “Ibi Hanahel,” and its lands are subject to continuous confiscation operations amid escalating settler attacks on citizens’ homes and farms.
Hebron:
A Palestinian citizen was injured on Monday evening in an attack by Israeli paramilitary colonizers on the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron.
Activist Osama Makhamra told WAFA that colonizers from the Avi Gal illegal colony, built on Palestinian lands and properties east of Yatta, attacked homes in the village of al-Rakeez in al-Masafer, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, and assaulted residents, resulting in the injury of citizen Muhammad al-Amur with wounds and bruises .
Makhamara added that the Israeli occupation forces abducted Issa Al-Amur and his brother Muhammad despite his injury, and detained a number of citizens in the village, firing live bullets, sound bombs and tear gas, without any injuries being reported.
Israeli forces abducted nine Palestinians from Hebron Governorate, south of the West Bank, on Monday.
Security and local sources told a WAFA news correspondent that the occupation forces abducted from the town of Yatta Musa Al-Amour, Muhammad Bader Al-Amur, and Nader Erzeiqat from the town of Taffuh, Niran Musa Al-Tarwa from the town of Sa’ir, Shaker Ali Salem Balut from the town of Bani Neim, Yousef Ali Awad, Khader Muhammad Tmeiza, and the brothers Mo’tasem and Mo’taz Al-Jiyyawi, from the town of Ethna, and severely beat a number of them during the raids on their homes.
In the same context, the occupation forces set up several military roadblocks at the entrances to Hebron and its towns, villages, and camps, and closed a number of main and secondary roads with iron gates, cement blocks, and earth mounds.
Jordan Valley (eastern West Bank):
The Israeli occupation authorities issued a decision on Monday to drill a groundwater well in the northern Jordan Valley for the benefit of the Israeli company “Mekorot” .
Head of the Al-Maleh Village Council, Mahdi Daraghma, stated that the planned well will be 600 meters deep and will be located on citizens’ land in Khirbet Al-Hadidiya.
Draghma added that the Israeli occupation will seize a plot of land of approximately 1.5 dunams, owned by citizens of Tubas, in order to dig the well.
The water in the well will then be stolen from the Palestinian civilian population and delivered to the Israeli colonial settlers who have taken over Palestinian land in the Jordan Valley and forced off the indigenous Palestinian population using military force (the average Israeli uses ten times the amount of water of the average Palestinian).
Also Monday, Israeli colonizers opened fire in the evening at a citizen while he was grazing his cows near his tents in the northern Jordan Valley.
Citizen Kinan Fuqaha stated that a number of colonizers got out of three vehicles and opened fire at him while he was grazing his cows near his tents in Khallet al-Hamma in the northern Jordan Valley.
He added that this comes as part of a policy of continuous pressure on them to force them to leave the pastures and leave the area.
Since last summer, more than twenty Palestinian families have been displaced from their homes in the northern Jordan Valley due to escalating colonizers’ attacks.
Meanwhile, three Palestinian communities in the northern Jordan Valley have been completely emptied of their residents as a result of these attacks. Families have also left other communities for the same reason.
Northern West Bank:
Israeli occupation forces storm Kafr Qaddoum town east of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank:
Jenin:
Israeli colonizers, accompanied by Israeli occupation forces, cut down dozens of olive trees in the village of Jalbun, in Jenin Governorate, on Monday.
Jalbun Village Council head Ibrahim Abu ar-Rob told our correspondent that the colonizers stormed Jalbun and began cutting down dozens of olive trees in the southeastern part of the village.
He added that the targeted area is located near the racist separation and expansion wall and covers an area of 130 dunams, and that the occupation forces are preventing residents from accessing it.
According to the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, the soldiers and paramilitary colonizers cut down and damaged a total of 12,067 trees, including 6,144 olive trees, during the first half of 2025.
Tulkarem:
Three Palestinians, including two elderly people, were injured on Monday morning when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) assaulted them in the Thannaba suburb, east of Tulkarem city.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its crews treated three injuries resulting from physical assault by occupation forces, including two elderly people in their 70s and a young man from the suburb. They were all transferred to the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital.
The occupation forces stormed the Thannaba suburb, raided a number of citizens’ homes, searched them, and ransacked their contents, without any abductions being reported.
The occupation forces continue their aggression on the city of Tulkarem and its two camps for the 176th consecutive day, causing significant losses and damage to infrastructure, homes, and citizens’ property.
Israeli occupation forces stormed on Monday evening the town of Ramin, east of Tulkarrm city, amid heavy deployment of infantry units in the town’s neighborhoods and streets, as part of the ongoing escalation against Tulkarrem governorate and its towns.
Eyewitnesses stated that the occupation forces abducted a number of citizens and began searching them and checking their ID cards. This was accompanied by harassment and abuse of the residents, and a clear obstruction of their daily movement .
Witnesses added that the occupation forces seized two agricultural tractors belonging to citizens Adel Nawaf and Ahmed Mustafa Sanjaq, in addition to a vehicle bearing a yellow license plate, and took them to an unknown location, without disclosing the reasons for the detention .
It’s worth noting that the town of Ramin has been subjected to repeated raids by Israeli occupation forces, as part of a campaign of escalation in the Tulkarem Governorate over the past several weeks. This campaign includes daily raids, abductions, the destruction of infrastructure, and the imposition of severe restrictions on the movement of citizens.
Amid ongoing Israeli attacks in the occupied West Bank, which have forcibly displaced dozens from their homes, a Palestinian elder in Tulkarem camp stands firm, refusing to leave and instead setting up a tent to live in with his family:
Central West Bank:
Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Al-Bireh on Monday evening.
Security sources told WAFA that an Israeli army force raided several neighborhoods in the city of Al-Bireh and took up positions in the center of the Old City, without any abductions or raids being reported.
Israeli colonizers attacked the town of Beitin, near Ramallah, setting Palestinian residents’ vehicles on fire (featured image above).
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed, on Monday afternoon, several towns and villages in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate.
Security sources told WAFA that Israeli occupation forces stormed the towns and villages of Sinjil, Deir Dibwan, Beitin, and Burqa, and drove their vehicles through the streets, without any abductions being reported.
This morning, the occupation forces stormed the village of Qibya, west of Ramallah, and the Jalazone refugee camp, north of the city, and abducted two citizens after raiding their homes.
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Israeli paramilitary colonizers and soldiers are now flying the “3rd TEMPLE” flags at key intersections throughout the West Bank – this flag is the symbol of an extreme fanatical movement of Israelis who plan to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site of Islam, and replace it with a Jewish temple.
They have been conducting daily invasions of the holy site in which they bring weapons and other sacreligious items, and beat Palestinian worshipers.
