Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers and occupation forces carried out a coordinated series of violations across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, including the establishment of new colonialist outposts, armed attacks on Palestinian communities, the shooting of a worker near the illegal Annexation Wall, the abduction of a civilian west of Salfit, and a sweeping military deployment in Tulkarem amid an ongoing 360‑day siege.
The escalation reflects a unified pattern of land seizure, colonizer violence, and intensified military pressure documented throughout the day by local sources and field reporters.
In the Jerusalem district, a 26‑year‑old Palestinian man was shot with live ammunition in the lower back near the illegal Annexation Wall in the town of al‑Ram.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its crews evacuated him to hospital after Israeli forces chased a group of workers near the wall and opened fire, injuring one of them.
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Earlier in the day, colonizers established a new colonialist outpost in the Bedouin community of Khan al‑Ahmar, east of occupied Jerusalem, installing structures roughly 60 meters from the local school.
Palestinian officials warned that the move poses an immediate threat to the community and forms part of a long‑standing strategy to forcibly displace Bedouin families in the E1 corridor to expand illegal colonies and sever Palestinian territorial continuity.
South of Nablus, in northern West Bank, Israeli colonizers erected tents on lands belonging to Qusra, Talfit, and Jalud after bulldozing agricultural areas in Ras Ein Einya.
Local officials said Qusra is already surrounded by three illegal colonies and colonialist outposts, and that seizing the western side would complete the encirclement of the village.
Later in the evening, dozens of colonizers, backed by Israeli occupation forces, invaded Qusra and attacked residents, firing live ammunition before the villagers confronted them.
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North of Ramallah, in central West Bank, Israeli bulldozers uprooted dozens of olive trees and razed more than 20 dunams of farmland in Turmus Ayya.
Residents reported that Israeli machinery has been operating in the area for weeks, uprooting more than 2,000 olive saplings and trees and bulldozing thousands of dunams to facilitate future colonialist outpost expansion.
In the Salfit district, in the central West Bank, Israeli forces abducted Abdullah Mousa Mer’ey from Qarawat Bani Hassan while he was at his workplace. Soldiers invaded a car‑wash facility on the road between Qarawat Bani Hassan and Bidya, searched it thoroughly, and abducted Mer’ey before withdrawing.
In Tulkarem, in northwestern West Bank, Israeli forces carried out a large‑scale nighttime deployment across several main streets, including al‑Haddadin Street, Thabet Thabet Square, the central vegetable market, the area around Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital, and the vicinity of Karaj Far’un.
Soldiers posted threat posters on walls in several neighborhoods, containing inflammatory language and direct intimidation of residents, while surveillance drones flew over the market and troops fired live rounds during the incursion.
Military vehicles also rammed civilian cars on Thabet Thabet Street, the second such incident on the same day after occupation vehicles deliberately struck two cars earlier near Tulkarm refugee camp.
The escalation in Tulkarem comes as the city and its two refugee camps—Tulkarem and Nur Shams—remain under a suffocating military siege for the 360th consecutive day, marked by repeated invasions, infrastructure damage, and severe restrictions on movement.
Across all districts, Wednesday’s events form a consistent pattern long documented by field reports: the rapid establishment of new colonialist outposts, the use of colonizer violence as an enforcement tool under military protection, the destruction of agricultural land to undermine Palestinian land claims, and intensified military pressure on urban centers.
Together, these actions reinforce a single objective—expanding Israeli control over Palestinian land while displacing its Indigenous population.
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.
