A group of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked a Palestinian-owned store in the village of Deir Sharaf, west of Nablus in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, on Wednesday at dawn, smashing its front facade and destroying its contents.
Local sources said the colonizers infiltrated the village and targeted the store, which belongs to Mohammad Maraqa, a resident of Al-‘Ain refugee camp near Nablus.
They added that the Israeli assailants not only shattered the storefront before breaking into it, but also destroyed its contents, including porcelain toilet fixtures, sinks and household products—constituting deliberate property damage and economic sabotage.
This incident is part of a broader surge in colonizer violence across the occupied West Bank.
According to the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, colonizers carried out at least 766 attacks during the month of October alone, with the highest concentration in the governorates of Ramallah, Al-Bireh, Nablus, and Hebron.
Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers have intensified their assaults across the occupied West Bank in November 2025, targeting Palestinian civilians, homes, farmland, and infrastructure—often under direct protection from Israeli military forces.
These attacks are not isolated incidents but part of a systematic campaign of serious violations aimed at displacing Palestinians and asserting control over strategic areas.
On Monday night, Illegal Israeli colonizers opened fire on the southern outskirts of the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, targeting the Khirbet al-Tell area.
On Monday evening, Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out several attacks in the village of Al-Jab’a, southwest of Bethlehem, setting fire to three inhabited homes, three vehicles, and a residential caravan.
On Sunday, Israeli colonizers damaged Palestinian-owned vehicles in Sinjil and confiscated farm equipment in Al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah, in addition to fencing citizens’ lands in the northern Jordan Valley.
At dawn Thursday, Israeli colonizers set fire to the Hajja Hamida Mosque, located between the towns of Deir Istiya and Kifl Haris, near Salfit, in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
On Wednesday, Israeli colonizers carried out a number of attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, resulting in the injury of at least four citizens, including a woman in Bethlehem, Jericho, and Salfit. Occupation forces razed land and expropriated 38 dunams of land belonging to the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the southern West Bank.
Despite hundreds of documented incidents, Israeli colonizers operate with near-total impunity, and military forces frequently protect or coordinate with them. The cumulative effect is a climate of fear, economic sabotage, and forced displacement—undermining any prospect for justice or peace.
The United Nations reported that colonizer attacks against Palestinians in October 2025 reached the highest monthly total in nearly two decades.
Human rights organizations warn that these coordinated assaults amount to systematic violence aimed at forcibly displacing Palestinian communities under military and settler cover.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission has reported that Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers carried out a total of 2,350 documented attacks across the occupied West Bank during October 2025.
The documented attacks include live fire, arson, physical assaults, destruction of farmland, obstruction of olive harvests, property seizures, and the demolition of homes and agricultural structures.
Of these, 1,584 were committed by the Israeli military and 766 by colonizers. The majority of incidents were concentrated in the governorates of Ramallah and Al-Bireh (542), Nablus (412), and Hebron (401).
The Commission ’s monthly report also confirmed the killing of 26-year-old Jihad Mohammad Ajaj from Deir Jarir, who was shot dead by colonizers in a direct fire incident. His death brings the number of Palestinians killed by colonizer gunfire since the beginning of 2025 to 14.
The attacks ranged from direct physical assaults and arson to the uprooting of trees, destruction of farmland, obstruction of olive harvesters, property seizures, and the demolition of homes and agricultural structures.
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.
