Two Palestinians were shot and killed by on Tuesday evening near the Gush Etzion colonialist bloc south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, following a what Israel said “a ramming and stabbing attack” that left one Israeli dead and three others wounded.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the Palestinians as Imran Ibrahim Imran al-Atrash, 18, from Hebron, and Walid Mohammad Khalil Sabarna, 18, from Beit Umar, north of the city, in the southern West Bank. The health ministry said it was informed of their deaths by the General Authority for Civil Affairs.
After the incident, Israeli soldiers invaded and ransacked the family of home Walid Sabarana, interrogated and assaulted his family, before forcing them out of their property and welding it doors shut.
The soldiers also invaded the home of Omran Al-Atrash, detained and interrogated several members of his family.
During invasions, the soldiers fired gas bombs and concussion grenades, causing several cases of tear gas inhalation.
The shoot occurred at the Gush Etzion colonialist bloc junction, a militarized area surrounded by Israeli colonies and the Gush Etzion military base, security and detention center.
Israeli sources claimed the two Palestinians arrived in a vehicle, rammed into a group of Israelis, then exited and began stabbing Israelis before an armed Israeli reservists nearby opened fire, killing both.
The Israeli fatality was Aharon Cohen, 70, a resident of the illegal Kiryat Arba colony in Hebron in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Three others—a woman in her 40s, a man in his 30s, and a 15-year-old boy—were wounded, with the woman in critical condition.
Israeli reports stated that pipe bombs were allegedly found in the attackers’ vehicle, though this has not been independently confirmed.
In related news, the Israeli army said one of its soldiers was injured in a stabbing attack after the soldiers invaded Rummanah town, west of Jenin in the northern West Bank.
The incident near Etzion comes after a wave of serious violations carried out by Israeli colonizers against the Palestinians, their homes, lands and property and their holy sites.
On Nonday evening, Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out several attacks in the village of Al-Jab’a, southwest of Bethlehem, setting fire to three inhabited homes, three vehicles, and a residential caravan.
On Monday night, Israeli colonizers opened fire on the southern outskirts of the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, targeting the Khirbet al-Tell area.
Earlier the same evening, colonizers launched a separate attack on the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron in the southern West Bank, where they burned a home and two vehicles and physically assaulted several residents.
On Sunday, Israeli colonizers damaged Palestinian-owned vehicles in the town of Sinjil and confiscated farm equipment in Al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah, in addition to fencing citizens’ lands in the northern Jordan Valley.
At dawn Thursday, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers set fire to the Hajja Hamida Mosque, located between the towns of Deir Istiya and Kifl Haris, near Salfit, in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
On Wednesday, illegal Israeli colonizers carried out a number of attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, resulting in the injury of at least four citizens, including a woman in Bethlehem, Jericho, and Salfit. Occupation forces razed land and expropriated 38 dunams of land belonging to the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the southern West Bank.
According to the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers carried out a total of 2,350 documented attacks across the occupied West Bank during October 2025.
Of these, 1,584 were committed by the Israeli military and 766 by colonizers. The majority of incidents were concentrated in the governorates of Ramallah and Al-Bireh (542), Nablus (412), and Hebron (401).
The attacks ranged from direct physical assaults and arson to the uprooting of trees, destruction of farmland, obstruction of olive harvesters, property seizures, and the demolition of homes and agricultural structures.
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.
