WEST BANK, (The Palestine Foundation Pakistan)
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and extremist settlers carried out a wave of demolitions and attacks overnight and Thursday morning across the occupied West Bank, targeting Palestinian homes, farms, and properties in a sweeping campaign of land seizures and forced displacement. The escalation affected several areas in Nablus, Jenin, Bethlehem, and the northern Jordan Valley, as part of Israel’s broader policy of settlement expansion.
In Nablus, IOF bulldozers demolished a family home in the village of Duma, south of the city. Suleiman Dawabsheh, head of the local village council, said that a military unit accompanied by a bulldozer stormed the eastern part of the village and demolished the single-story home of Mujahid Aafan Dawabsheh. The 200-square-meter house was home to a family of five, who received no prior demolition notice and were only able to salvage a few belongings before the destruction began.
In Jenin, IOF bulldozers razed a car showroom near the town of Arraba early Thursday. Local sources reported that the “Al-Fahd Cars” showroom, located along the Jenin–Nablus road, was leveled after Israeli occupation authorities issued demolition orders against it along with several neighboring stores and showrooms months ago.
Meanwhile, in Bethlehem, Israeli settlers destroyed a greenhouse and filled in a water well in the Khalayel al-Louz area, east of the city. Mahmoud Ebayyat, a local resident, said settlers stormed the area, vandalized the greenhouse, and stole around 20 iron pillars belonging to his brother, whose farm had already been demolished earlier this year. He added that settler assaults in Khalayel al-Louz have sharply increased, including livestock farm demolitions, tree cutting, land leveling, and direct attacks on residents to drive them out.
In the northern Jordan Valley, settlers continued their nightly rampages, stealing iron fences from a livestock pen and slashing the tires of a water tanker belonging to farmer Abd Rabbo Bani Odeh in the Deir area, according to Mahdi Daraghmeh, head of the al-Maleh and Bedouin Communities Council. He added that settlers have plowed around 250 dunums of privately owned land in Khirbet Samra, just days after fencing hundreds of dunums nearby.
On Thursday morning, the settlers began plowing new tracts of land in the Um al-Qaba plain, as part of ongoing efforts to seize the eastern strip of the Tubas governorate.
Daraghmeh warned that thousands of dunums of farmland and grazing areas have been fenced off in recent weeks under an intensifying campaign to Judaize the Jordan Valley.
The surge in field demolitions and settler violence comes as the IOF and armed settlers operate with open coordination, seeking to consolidate Israeli control over vast Palestinian lands. Palestinian towns and villages continue to face systematic demolitions targeting residential, agricultural, and commercial structures, as part of an Israeli strategy to impose new colonial realities on the ground.
