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Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out several attacks Monday evening in the village of Al-Jab\u2019a, southwest of Bethlehem, setting fire to three inhabited homes, three vehicles, and a residential caravan.<\/p>\n
According to Diab Masha\u2019la, head of the Al-Jab\u2019a village council, the homes targeted belong to residents Mohammad Mousa, Yousef Ahmad Mousa, and Ra\u2019fat Hilal Masha\u2019la.<\/p>\n
Two of the torched vehicles belong to brothers Mousa and Ibrahim Ahmad Abu Loha. The caravan was also completely destroyed.<\/p>\n
Local residents managed to extinguish the fires before injuries were reported, but the material damage to homes and vehicles was extensive.<\/p>\n
Earlier the same evening, colonizers launched a separate attack on the town of Sa\u2019ir, northeast of Hebron in the southern West Bank, where they burned a home and two vehicles and physically assaulted several residents.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Israeli colonizers damaged Palestinian-owned vehicles<\/a> in the town of Sinjil and confiscated farm equipment in Al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah, in addition to fencing citizens\u2019 lands in the northern Jordan Valley.<\/p>\n At dawn Thursday, Israeli colonizers set fire to the Hajja Hamida Mosque<\/a>, located between the towns of Deir Istiya and Kifl Haris, near Salfit.<\/p>\n At dawn Thursday, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers set fire to the Hajja Hamida Mosque<\/a>, located between the towns of Deir Istiya and Kifl Haris, near Salfit, in the central part of the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, illegal Israeli colonizers\u00a0carried out a number of attacks<\/a>\u00a0against 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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).<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n All of Israel\u2019s 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\u00a0International Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n Article 33<\/a>\u00a0of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits collective punishment and acts of terror against civilian populations.<\/p>\n Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention<\/a>\u00a0states: \u201cThe Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.\u201d It also prohibits the \u201cindividual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory\u201d.<\/p>\n Articles\u00a053\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0147<\/a>, prohibit the destruction of civilian property and classify pillage as a war crime.<\/p>\n
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