In the Tubas Governorate in the northern West Bank, settlers stole about 150 sheep from the village of Al-Aqaba, east of the governorate, according to Moataz Bisharat, the official in charge of the settlement file in the governorate.
He pointed out that this incident is part of a series of daily attacks carried out by settlers against Palestinians, including uprooting trees, burning fields, seizing property, and demolishing homes and agricultural facilities.
According to Bisharat, about 770,000 Israeli settlers live in hundreds of settlements in the West Bank, including about 250,000 in East Jerusalem. During February, 511 attacks were recorded by settlers, ranging from physical assaults to uprooting trees, burning property, and seizing it, according to a report by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.
In the same context, six Palestinians were injured and bruised as a result of an attack by the occupation soldiers on them in the village of Al-Aqaba, after an attack launched by armed settlers on the village under the protection of the army, as they fired live bullets at the residents.
The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that residents had been trying since the morning to recover dozens of heads of livestock stolen by settlers.
In northwest Jerusalem, Israeli occupation forces uprooted dozens of olive trees in the towns of Biddu and Beit Iksa, claiming they were close to the separation wall and the military checkpoint at the entrance to the area. Citizen Abdul Karim Ajaj stated that an Israeli bulldozer entered his land north of Beit Iksa and uprooted approximately 80 mature olive trees belonging to him without prior warning, causing significant financial losses to the land, which is a primary source of income for his family.
The towns of Biddu and Beit Iksa are witnessing repeated attacks, including the bulldozing of agricultural lands and the uprooting of trees, as part of policies aimed at restricting Palestinians and isolating the villages surrounding Jerusalem through the wall and military checkpoints.
In a related development, UN experts warned that Jerusalem is suffering potentially irreparable damage as a result of accelerating Israeli measures aimed at changing its demographic composition, religious character, and legal status.
Experts said Israel is accelerating these measures "under the guise of an existential war against the Palestinians," threatening the city's historic pluralistic fabric that has brought together Muslims, Christians, and Jews for centuries.
The statement pointed to the escalation of extrajudicial killings, demolitions and forced displacement in East Jerusalem, in addition to the restrictions imposed by the occupation authorities through checkpoints and closures, which isolate the city from its Palestinian surroundings.
According to data provided by experts, 144 Palestinians were killed in the Jerusalem Governorate between 2021 and 2025, and at least 11,555 people were arrested, while the occupation authorities issued 2,386 deportation orders and carried out more than 1,732 demolition and land leveling operations.
Experts also warned that 33 Bedouin communities, comprising more than 7,000 Palestinians, face the risk of forced displacement due to demolitions, land seizures, and the denial of natural resources to the population.
They stressed that these actions amount to grave violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention and possibly war crimes, calling on the international community to take immediate steps to stop them and work to end the occupation, warning that continued international inaction “is not neutrality but complicity.”
The statement also noted the increasing restrictions on Palestinian access to holy sites, with 73,871 incursions by settlers into the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque recorded during 2025, in addition to restrictions and attacks targeting Christian communities during their religious rites.
In parallel with the war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the occupation army and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, resulting in the martyrdom of 1,121 Palestinians, the injury of approximately 11,700, and the arrest of nearly 22,000 Palestinians, according to Palestinian data.
