Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks on Palestinian residents and property across several areas of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, including Salfit in the central West Bank, Nablus in the northern West Bank, Tulkarem in the northwestern West Bank, Ramallah in the central West Bank, and Hebron in the southern West Bank.
In Deir Istiya, in the Salfit area, colonizers assaulted Salah Youssef Mansour, a well‑known farmer from Wadi Qana, while he was selling agricultural produce near the entrance to the valley.
Local sources said the colonizers sprayed him with pepper spray before fleeing. Mansour received field treatment.
Mansour has been repeatedly targeted by colonizers while working his land. He previously survived an attempted vehicular assault, and colonizers once ran over his horse, which he used to transport goods between Deir Istiya and Wadi Qana.
In Qusra, south of Nablus, colonizers from a newly established colonial outpost in the Ras Al‑Ain area opened live fire at Palestinian homes.
No injuries were reported, but the attack triggered confrontations after Israeli forces intervened to protect the colonizers.
In Tulkarem, groups of colonizers attacked many Palestinian farmers on their lands between Beit Lid and Kufur Qaddoum as part of constant attempts to push them out of their lands to establish a new colonialist outpost.
In Birzeit, north of Ramallah, colonizers invaded the outskirts of the town from the direction of the Atara military roadblock and provoked residents.
The attack follows a violent assault on Saturday in which four Palestinians, including a woman and her son, were injured, and three others were abducted after colonizers attacked a home on the town’s outskirts.
In Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, numerous Palestinians were injured when colonizers attacked the communities of Khirbet Al‑Fakhit and Khirbet Al‑Halawa.
Resident Samir Hamamda said a large group of colonizers stormed his home, pelted it with stones, and sprayed pepper spray inside, causing his children and wife to lose consciousness and suffer bruises and cuts.
Several others were injured, including Ahmad Abu Subha, along with multiple children and women.
Colonizers also smashed Abu Subha’s vehicle, broke windows, and burned his stored firewood, causing extensive damage.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said its teams treated two serious injuries in Al‑Fakhit: one young man with a severe head wound and a girl with a broken arm.
In Khirbet Al‑Halawa, colonizers injured several residents with stones. Media activist Osama Makhmara reported that colonizers also attacked Red Crescent ambulance crews, stoning their vehicles and preventing them from reaching the wounded.
Colonizers, under the protection of Israeli forces, also stole 150 sheep belonging to the Abu ‘Aram family.
In Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron, armed colonizers attacked the home of Nitham Shalalda in the Wadi Sa’ir area, damaging vehicles, and property.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission has reported that Israeli forces and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out 23,827 attacks against Palestinians and their property across the occupied West Bank last year.
Israeli forces carried out 18,384 attacks, Israeli colonizers carried out 4,723 attacks, while the soldiers and the colonizers carried out 720 Joint attacks. These figures only include documented violations.
The Commission said the figures reflect a systematic and escalating pattern of violence aimed at displacing Palestinian communities and expanding Israeli colonial control across the occupied West Bank.
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