Three Palestinians were injured on Saturday in a series of assaults carried out by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers and Israeli occupation forces in several areas of the occupied West Bank, including northwest Jerusalem, Nablus, and Bethlehem.
The Jerusalem Governorate reported that Mohsen Mohammad Abdul‑Latif Jomhoor sustained moderate injuries after a group of colonizers attacked him, his wife, and his daughter while they were on their land in the Wadi Salman area of Beit Anan, northwest of occupied Jerusalem. He was transferred to hospital for treatment.
In a separate attack, a 10‑year‑old child was injured when colonizers stormed the Ma’azi Jaba’ Bedouin community north of Jerusalem.
Israeli occupation forces later detained two residents of the community: Adnan Mustafa Ar’ara and Ibrahim Atallah Ar’ara.
Earlier in the evening, colonizers had raided the community, assaulted residents, damaged property, and killed several heads of livestock.
Elsewhere, a young man was injured at dawn near the village of Azmut, east of Nablus, after Israeli soldiers stopped his vehicle and beat him, causing bruises that required hospital care.
In Bethlehem, Israeli forces invaded the village of Husan west of the city, deployed in several neighborhoods, and searched multiple homes. No arrests were reported.
These incidents come amid a sharp escalation in colonizer violence and military incursions across the West Bank, targeting Palestinian communities, farmland, and infrastructure in an effort to pressure residents off their land.
In addition, six Palestinian families in the village of Aqqaba, east of Tubas in the northeastern West Bank, dismantled their homes and tents on Saturday in preparation for leaving the area, following a sharp escalation in attacks by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers.
Also Saturday, Israeli colonizers killed a Palestinian young man, Amir Mohammad Shanaran, 28, and critically injured his brother, Khaled Muhammad Shanaran,33, during an attack in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank.
On Friday, Israeli colonizers carried out a series of assaults across the occupied West Bank, targeting children, shepherds, farmers, solidarity activists, and journalists in multiple communities from the northern Jordan Valley to the central and southern regions, while Israeli occupation forces provided protection and directly participated in several of the attacks.
Last Monday, two Palestinian civilians were killed and five others, including a child, were wounded by live ammunition on Monday during an attack by armed Israeli colonizers on the village of Qaryut, south of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed the deaths of two brothers: Muhammad Moammar (52), who was shot in the head, and Fahim Moammar (47), who died after being shot in the pelvis.
Since the beginning of the Israeli military aggression against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, occupation forces and settlers have killed 1122 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, including 232 children and 24 women.
In the Jenin governorate, 310 Palestinians have been killed, while 213 were killed in Tulkarem, 144 in Nablus, 110 in Hebron, 98 in Tubas, 82 in Ramallah, 62 in Jerusalem, 44 in Qalqilia, 36 in Bethlehem, 15 in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, and 8 in Salfit, according to the Shireen Observatory.
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.
