Israeli soldiers and colonizers conducted serious violations across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, resulting in the killing of a Palestinian man, the shooting of at least five others, and widespread assaults, invasions, and land seizures.
Media sources said that Israeli forces shot two Palestinian citizens and abducted four others, late Wednesday night, after invading the city of Tubas and the town of Tammun, south of the city, in the northeastern part of the West Bank.
Moreover, Israeli forces shot a Palestinian child, on Wednesday morning, after storming the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
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According to Amid Ahmad, the director of the PRCS emergency and ambulance center in Nablus, its ambulance crew transported a 14-year-old child to the hospital after soldiers shot him in the leg with live ammunition.
In the central West Bank, armed colonizers invaded the village of Deir Jarir northeast of Ramallah, where they opened fire on Palestinian civilians.
The Palestinian Health Ministry stated that the colonizers fatally shot Jihad Muhammad Ajaj, 26, during their invasion of the village.
Three others were shot, two seriously and one moderately, and were transported to the Palestine Medical Complex.
The head of the village council confirmed that the attack began with colonizers throwing rocks at vehicles before escalating to live fire.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported multiple gunshot injuries, including wounds to the abdomen and thigh.
Later that evening, another group of armed colonizers stormed Atara, north of Ramallah, shooting two citizens and assaulting two others, including a woman.
One man was shot in the head and critically injured: another sustained abdominal wounds. PRCS crews evacuated the injured to the Istishari Arab Hospital.
Media sources confirmed that colonizers ransacked homes, broke windows, and assaulted a woman while she sheltered with her child. Soldiers invaded the village simultaneously, firing live rounds at unarmed civilians to shield the colonizers.
In the northern Jordan Valley, approximately 20 colonizers, accompanies by Israeli soldiers, invaded Al-Hadidiya, assaulted residents, and injured a Palestinian woman.
Following the attack, Israeli soldiers abducted three brothers: Yusri, Qusay, and Luay Abdul-Mahdi Al-Salamin.
The invasion was part of a broader campaign to dismantle Bedouin communities and expand colonial control over grazing lands.
In Kifl Hares, northwest of Salfit in central West Bank, dozens of colonizers invaded while Israeli soldiers closed entrances and deployed throughout the streets to secure the colonizers’ access archeological sites. Residents were barred from movement, and the village was effectively locked down.
These incidents followed earlier invasions in Umm al-Khair, where colonizers led by Yinon Levi, previously implicated in the killing of activist Awdah Hathaleen, returned to level land and install new outposts. Villagers reported daily harassment, destruction of fences, and threats of further violence.
In al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah in central West Bank, Israeli bulldozers carved roads to connect illegal colonies while the village was placed under siege.
Seven residents were abducted, including a 12-year-old child. Olive trees were uprooted, and access was denied to medical teams and press. Of the original 43,000 dunums of village land, only 980 remain accessible.
At a military roadblock near Deir Sharaf, soldiers detained Khaled Azem, beat him, and forced him to say “I love Israel” on video, which was posted to his social media account without consent. The incident was described as psychological warfare aimed at humiliating Palestinians.
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According to the Wall and Colony Resistance Commission, over 38,000 violations have been documented since October 2023, including 31,205 by Israeli soldiers and 7,154 by colonizers.
At least 33 Palestinians have been killed in colonizer attacks alone. 114 new colonies have been established, 455 families forcibly displaced, and 1,288 homes demolished. Nearly 49,000 trees, mostly olives, have been damaged or uprooted.
These actions constitute grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention, including forcible transfer of protected persons, destruction of property not justified by military necessity, and colonizer violence with state complicity, rising to crimes against humanity under the Rome Statute.
The latest violations are not isolated, they reflect a deepening settler-colonial structure, where military invasions and colonizer rampages are normalized.
As Palestinian communities face daily threats to their lives, homes, and dignity, the international silence remains deafening, and the legal vacuum ever more dangerous.
According to the Shireen Observatory, 13 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli colonizers in 2025, and 35 have been killed since the beginning of the military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
Since October 7, 2023, 1050 Palestinians have been killed, including 35 who were killed by paramilitary colonizers in the occupied West Bank.
