Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out coordinated attacks across several areas of the occupied West Bank on Sunday, destroying agricultural structures, uprooting trees, and stealing equipment, while Israeli occupation forces issued new land‑seizure notices and expanded colonial infrastructure in Jenin in the northern West Bank.
Colonizers invaded the Arab al‑Khouli community east of Kafr Thulth, south of Qalqilia in the northwestern West Bank, and demolished 50 agricultural rooms, causing losses estimated in the millions of shekels due to the destruction of structures and the damage to crops.
Residents reported that the colonizers arrived in groups and carried out the demolition for hours under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
In Nablus in the northern West Bank, colonizers uprooted trees from Palestinian‑owned land in the village of Jalud, south of the city. Farmers said the attack targeted cultivated plots located near expanding colonial outposts.
Also in the Nablus district, colonizers infiltrated the outskirts of the village of Osarin at dawn and stole a Palestinian agricultural tractor before fleeing toward a nearby colonial site. Residents discovered the theft when they arrived to work their land early in the morning.
In Hebron in the southern West Bank, colonizers released their livestock onto Palestinian agricultural lands in the village of Susiya in Masafer Yatta, damaging crops, and grazing areas. Local communities in Masafer Yatta continue to face near‑daily colonizer attacks aimed at displacing residents and expanding colonial control.
Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces delivered a notice ordering the seizure of approximately seven dunams of land in the Al‑Jabriyyat area of Jenin in the northern West Bank, overlooking the Jenin refugee camp. Local sources said the confiscation is intended for colonial expansion and military use.
In the same area, Israeli bulldozers began cutting a new road through lands located between the towns of ‘Anin and Silat al‑Harithiya, passing through the lands of Khirbet Surooj. The area had previously been targeted with a land‑seizure notice in April, and residents fear the new road will serve future colonial infrastructure.
Earlier, Israeli colonizers stole approximately 80 sheep from the village of Kafr Malik, east of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, during an armed incursion into the community’s eastern outskirts.
These attacks and land‑seizure measures reflect a continued escalation by both illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers and Israeli occupation forces across the occupied West Bank, targeting Palestinian agricultural communities, destroying property, and expanding colonial control over Palestinian land.
On Saturday, Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, injuring two Palestinian women and expanding their presence on privately owned Palestinian and religious endowment lands, while Israeli forces invaded several communities to provide protection for the attackers.
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.
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