Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers launched coordinated assaults across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, targeting Palestinian towns, refugee camps, and agricultural lands, resulting in injuries and property destruction.
Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers on Saturday cut down approximately twenty fruit-bearing olive trees in the village of Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah in the central West Bank.
According to local sources, the colonizers stormed the farmland of Palestinian farmer Abdul-Karim Ajaj and carried out the destruction.
In parallel, Israeli occupation forces invaded the village of Aboud, northwest of Ramallah, firing toxic gas grenades. No injuries or abductions were reported.
In the nearby city of Al-Biereh, Israeli troops invaded homes in the Jabal At-Tawil area and seized surveillance footage, according to security sources. No abductions were reported.
South of Bethlehem, occupation forces invaded the town of Al-Khader, deploying military vehicles near Al-Yamama Hospital and blocking the main Jerusalem–Hebron road.
In the northern Jordan Valley, illegal paramilitary colonizers roamed through the Palestinian communities of Makhoul and Samra. These incursions, which include assaults on residents and livestock, have become a near-daily occurrence.
In the northern West Bank, Israeli forces and colonizers jointly stormed the waste disposal site east of Aqraba, southwest of Nablus.
🚨BREAKING | International activists and journalists were severely injured after Israeli colonial settlers, under the protection of the Israeli occupation army, attacked a solidarity gathering on Qamas mountain in the town of Beita, south of Nablus in the West Bank. The assault… pic.twitter.com/HixaX0QPDW
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The mayor, Salah Jaber, reported that he and his deputy were detained along with sanitation workers, and two municipal garbage trucks were confiscated.
Later in the evening, dozens of Palestinians suffered from gas inhalation when Israeli forces invaded the village of Salem, east of Nablus, and fired toxic gas grenades toward worshippers at the local mosque during evening prayers. Soldiers also installed a military roadblock at the village entrance and searched vehicles.
In Jenin Governorate, Israeli colonizers attacked homes and farmland in the village of Raba, southeast of Jenin city, while accompanied by Israeli soldiers.
In the town of Silat al-Harithiya, west of Jenin, occupation forces assaulted and chased children playing near a local school.
The moment Israeli terrorist settlers attacked journalists in the town of Beita, south of Nablus and broke the arm of Reuters Photogrpher pic.twitter.com/wKab2R5QCP
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North of occupied Jerusalem, a Palestinian man was shot in the foot by Israeli forces near the Annexation Wall in the town of ar-Ram. He was transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah for treatment. The Ministry of Health described the injury as minor.
In the northeastern West Bank, a 26-year-old Palestinian was critically wounded by live fire during an Israeli military invasion of Al-Far’a refugee camp, south of Tubas.
Palestinian Red Crescent Society medics transported him to Tubas Government Hospital. The invasion included the deployment of infantry units at the camp entrance and disrupted traffic on the main road.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces invaded the village of Al-Judeira, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, spreading throughout the area without conducting abductions or home invasions.
Earlier Saturday, six Palestinians—including volunteer medics, journalists, and a local farmer—were injured during an assault by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers in the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
This is an attempted murder, and so far @Reuters has not released any statement regarding the Israeli settlers’ attempt to kill their journalists! https://t.co/9Xyxb51hcB pic.twitter.com/maLafTADr5
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This escalation follows the killing of two Palestinian children—Mohammad Abdullah Taym (16 years old) and Mohammad Rashad Fadl Qasim (16 years old), by Israeli forces the previous night. The boys were shot near the apartheid wall in the upper neighborhood of Al-Jadira. Their bodies remain withheld by the occupation.
Also Saturday, Israeli colonizers stole olive crops from Palestinian land in the town of Aqraba, located south of Nablus.
The occupied West Bank witnessed an unprecedented surge in violations by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers—during October 2025, marking the highest monthly toll in nearly two decades, the United Nations said.
n the early hours of Saturday morning, Israeli colonizers set fire to a Palestinian home in the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
On Friday, Israeli colonizers demolished residential tents and livestock shelters belonging to Palestinian residents in Khirbet Hamsa, in the northern Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, on Friday.
On Thursday, Israeli colonizers carried out a number of attacks, injuring a child and destroying olive trees, after targeting Palestinians and their property, in the occupied West Bank.
Furthermore, Israeli colonizers invaded the Bedouin community of Al-Hathrawa near Khan al-Ahmar, east of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, and demolished four mobile homes used by local families.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission documented 766 colonizer attacks in October alone, concentrated in the districts of Ramallah and Al-Bireh (195), Nablus (179), and Hebron (126). These included 352 incidents of theft and vandalism targeting Palestinian property and farmland.
Among the victims was Jihad Mohammad Ajaj, 26, from Deir Jarir, who was shot and killed by colonizers in a direct armed assault. His death brings the number of Palestinians killed by colonizer gunfire since the start of 2025 to 14.
Colonizer violence, often carried out with the backing of Israeli occupation forces, also led to the uprooting, burning, and poisoning of over 1,200 olive trees—an emblem of Palestinian heritage and sustenance.
It is worth mentioning that, on Wednesday, Israeli occupation authorities issued two new tenders for the construction of a colonial neighborhood in the illegal colony of Adam (Givat Binyamin), built on stolen Palestinian land northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
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.
