Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out coordinated attacks on Thursday across several areas of the occupied West Bank, including al‑Mughayyer northeast of Ramallah, Ein Siniya north of the city, Masafer Yatta south of Hebron, the outskirts of al‑Rashayda southeast of Bethlehem, and Jerusalem.
The assaults included damaging civilian vehicles, physically attacking residents, injuring a woman, and the installation of a new outpost tent, while Israeli forces invaded affected areas, set up a military roadblock, and restricted movement.
Media sources said colonizers attacked the Marj Si’ area west of al‑Mughayyer, smashing the front and rear windshields of a Palestinian vehicle before residents confronted them and forced them to withdraw.
Residents also documented a colonizer grazing his flock around a Palestinian home in Ein Siniya, a recurring tactic used to pressure families and expand control over surrounding lands.
Eyewitnesses added that colonizers assaulted several civilian cars before retreating from the outskirts of al‑Mughayyer.
Shortly after the attack, Israeli forces invaded the western entrance of al‑Mughayyer, installed a military roadblock, searched passing vehicles, and inspected the IDs of drivers and passengers.
The soldiers then closed the entrance entirely, preventing vehicles from entering or leaving the village and disrupting the movement of workers, students, and residents.
In Masafer Yatta, a woman from the Abu ’Obeid family sustained bruises after armed colonizers attacked residents in Khirbet at‑Tibban.
Media Osama Makhmara said the colonizers released their livestock into Palestinian agricultural fields and around homes, then assaulted residents who attempted to stop them. The woman received on‑site medical treatment.
Israeli forces later invaded the area and abducted Lu’ay Abu ‘Obeid, further escalating pressure on the community.
In a separate incident, colonizer groups installed a colonialist outpost tent near the village of al‑Rashayda southeast of Bethlehem, a move residents fear signals the beginning of a new colonial outpost aimed at seizing grazing lands and restricting Palestinian access to the area.
In occupied Jerusalem, Israeli forces closed the iron gate at the entrance of the village of Mikhmas northeast of the city, coinciding with an attack by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers on Palestinian vehicles near the village roundabout.
The closure obstructed the movement of residents and workers, while colonizers gathered near the entrance and targeted passing cars without reported injuries.
Mikhmas and the nearby Bedouin community of Khallet as‑Sidra continue to face repeated colonizer assaults, carried out under military protection, including the destruction and burning of homes, barns, and vehicles, as well as the vandalism of solar panels and surveillance cameras and the seizure of several devices during previous attacks.
On Wednesday evening, a Palestinian man was critically injured after Israeli colonizers opened fire at a civilian vehicle in the Yatta wilderness, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
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.
