On Monday, a wave of violent assaults by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers swept across multiple Palestinian towns and villages, targeting civilians, agricultural infrastructure, and essential services in a coordinated escalation spanning Nablus, Jericho, and Ramallah.
In the northern West Bank, colonizer groups attacked Palestinian vehicles at the Za’tara junction south of Nablus, pelting them with stones and causing property damage.
Earlier in the day, similar assaults were reported near the illegal colony of Yitzhar, also south of Nablus, where vehicles sustained further damage.
Later that evening, three Palestinians suffered burn injuries after colonizers set fire to the Juneidi nursery, which serves as a vital source of cultivated trees and plants for local farmers, west of Deir Sharaf, near Nablus. Local sources said the arson caused extensive damage and financial losses.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society confirmed that its emergency teams evacuated the injured to nearby hospitals.
In a separate incident, a group of colonizers ignited fires in olive groves along the northern edge of Yatma village, also south of Nablus.
Village council head Ahmad Abu Snobar stated that the attackers disembarked from a bus and deliberately set fire to trees adjacent to the main road, resulting in the destruction of several olive trees.
Meanwhile, in the northeastern West Bank, colonizers damage the electricity line leading to the Shallal al-Auja Bedouin community north of Jericho.
The Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights condemned the attack, describing it as part of a broader campaign by paramilitary colonizers to pressure and displace vulnerable communities.
The organization warned that children and elderly residents are facing heightened hardship due to the blackout.
In the central West Bank, colonizers hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles traveling between Ramallah and Nablus, near the illegal colony of Shilo.
Eyewitnesses reported shattered windshields and damaged vehicles, though no physical injuries were recorded.
Separately, Israeli military bulldozers uprooted dozens of trees trees in the village of Ein Shibli in the central Jordan Valley.
Human rights advocate Aref Daraghma stated that the uprooting was carried out along the village’s main road, following prior demolition notices issued by Israeli authorities. He described the attack as part of a systematic policy aimed at erasing Palestinian presence in the Jordan Valley.
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, which prohibit the destruction of civilian property and classify pillage as a war crime.
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