Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out multiple coordinated attacks on Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank on Friday, forcing shepherds from their grazing lands in the northern Jordan Valley, assaulting residents south of Nablus, and storming Bedouin and rural areas near occupied Jerusalem in what local communities describe as an ongoing campaign to terrorize them off their land.
Colonizers forced Palestinian shepherds to leave grazing areas near their tents in Khirbet Samra in the northern Jordan Valley.
Local sources said the colonizers expelled the shepherds from the pastures and chased their livestock across the surrounding hills, continuing a pattern of daily harassment aimed at restricting access to land and pressuring communities to leave.
The northern Jordan Valley has witnessed a sharp escalation in colonizer violence over the past year, including expulsions of herders, destruction of crops, and repeated attempts to seize grazing areas.
Residents also confronted a colonizer militia attack on the Ma’azi Jaba’ Bedouin community near the town of Jaba’, north of occupied Jerusalem. Earlier at dawn, colonizer groups stormed the “Shakara” area of Duma, south of Nablus, attacking families, invading homes, and terrorizing residents in an effort to push them off their land.
South of Nablus, colonizers assaulted several Palestinians in the Wadi al‑Hajj Issa area between Aqraba and Jurish. Local sources reported that colonizers beat residents during the attack.
The same area was targeted yesterday when colonizers assaulted Palestinians and sprayed them with pepper spray.
Across the occupied West Bank, attacks by illegal paramilitary colonizers have intensified, particularly in the Jordan Valley, Nablus district, and the Jerusalem periphery.
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The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission has documented a steady rise in land seizures, home invasions, and forced displacement, especially targeting Bedouin and herding communities.
These assaults reflect a sustained campaign to fragment Palestinian presence in strategic areas and entrench Israeli control.
Human rights groups and Palestinian officials warn that these coordinated attacks, often carried out under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, form part of a broader effort to depopulate rural Palestinian communities and expand colonial outposts.
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.
