On Sunday, Israeli violations of international law continued throughout the West Bank, including military invasions, paramilitary colonizer attacks, forced removal of Palestinians from their homes, and abductions of Palestinian civilians. These attacks followed a series of Israeli invasions before dawn on Saturday in various parts of the West Bank.
In the early morning hours, Israeli paramilitary colonizers burned a Palestinian citizen’s vehicle in the town of Hawara, south of Nablus.
Local sources reported that a group of Israeli paramilitary colonizers attacked the Bir Goza area in the town at dawn today, burned the vehicle of citizen Abhal Ayed Ahmed Odeh, and wrote racist slogans on the walls of his house.
The sources added that the colonizers also tried to burn his brother’s vehicle, but the residents’ resistance prevented them from doing so.
A 58-year-old Palestinian worker, Jihad Qazmar from the village of Izbat Salman south of Qalqilya, died this morning after falling from the Israeli segregation wall in the town of Al-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem, while attempting to reach his workplace inside the 1948-occupied territory.
Also in the northern West Bank, armed Israeli paramilitary colonizer mobs harassed Palestinians in Khirbet Masoud near the town of Ya’bad, southwest of Jenin.
In the Nablus area, in the northern West Bank, Israeli military vehicles patrolled the eastern part of the city, then set up a checkpoint in Al-Sirafi area.
Israeli occupation forces stormed the towns of Beita and Awarta, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, on Sunday evening. Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces invaded the villages and fired live bullets and poison gas bombs, without any injuries being reported.
Also in the Nablus area, the village of Khirbet Yanun al-Tahta is facing an imminent threat of forced displacement, while nearby Khirbet Yanun al-Fawqa has already been forcibly depopulated by Israeli forces and settler groups.
Both Palestinian communities are located near Aqraba, southeast of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
In Khirbat Yanoun, south of Nablus, families were given the deadline of 4 pm Sunday to leave their homes. Most of the families of the village have already been forcibly displaced.
For years, the residents of Khirbat Yanoun have been suffering from near-daily attacks by paramilitary colonizers, which have turned into a daily struggle to survive on the land, in the face of these repeated attacks.
16 families lived in Khirbat Yanoun – now just one family remains. It is considered a historical area of archaeological importance, with origins dating back to ancient times. It holds a special place in Palestinian heritage and culture, as this village has managed to preserve its identity despite the pressures and cruelty faced by its residents.
Also in the northern West Bank Sunday, according to Israeli activist Andrey X, the Israeli occupation forces detained international journalist Adele Shoko near Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, while she was covering the ongoing Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in the area.
On Sunday evening in the Jordan Valley, in the eastern West Bank, Israeli occupation forces abducted three Palestinian civilians: two brothers — Osama and Arif Bisharat, as well as Jaafar Muhammad Ali Bani Odeh from Al-Hadidiya village.
Meanwhile, in the southern West Bank, Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, abducting one Palestinian.
Local sources said that the Israeli occupation forces raided the town and abducted citizen Mahmoud Abu Ayyash after storming a commercial store, and also bulldozed land in the Al-Qarn area, for the purpose of expanding the ‘Jewish only’ road constructed by the right-wing paramilitary Jewish Israeli settlers to displace the indigenous Palestinian population.
In this context, the Israeli occupation forces carried out a large-scale raid and search campaign on Sunday in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
Anti-settlement activist Fouad Ammor said that the Israeli occupation forces launched a raid and search campaign in the area, targeting the homes of the brothers, Majd, Muhammad, Rashad, Moaz, and Waad, as well as the home of their father, Fadl Ammor. The campaign included extensive vandalism and destruction of the home’s contents, the theft of more than 10,000 shekels and gold jewelry, and the causing of harm and destruction to the family’s homes. The soldiers also assaulted a number of family members, and subjected some of them to detention and field investigation.
In the Old City of Hebron, the Israeli occupation forces closed the entrance to Shuhada Street in the center of the city of Hebron, just as school was letting out for the day and students were needing to pass through the area to return home.
Imad Abu Shamsieh, an activist at the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem, said that the Israeli occupation forces stationed at the military checkpoint leading to Shuhada Street and the Tel Rumeida area have, for the past two weeks, closed the checkpoint each day for hours, just at the time when school lets out.
He pointed out that this action is part of a plan to humiliate students and families, to force them to leave their schools and homes, in the context of tightening the noose on them and implementing Israel’s colonial and expansionist plans in that region.
In the Bethlehem area, Israeli settler fanatics harassed local Palestinian residents in the village of Al-Maniya, south of Bethlehem, invading their olive groves and menacing the local farmers.
In the Ramallah area, Israeli occupation forces smashed the windows of several parked cars early this morning during an incursion into the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah.
In the Jerusalem area on Sunday, Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Al-Eizariya, southeast of occupied Jerusalem.
Local sources reported that an Israeli occupation army force stormed the Jabal al-Baba Bedouin community near the town, without any abductions being reported.
Also Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces closed the Qalandia checkpoint north of occupied Jerusalem.
Eyewitnesses reported that the occupation forces closed the checkpoint in both directions, causing a severe traffic jam.
