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by IMEMC News
May 20, 2026

Israeli paramilitary colonizer groups carried out multiple coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, targeting Palestinian homes, infrastructure, agricultural areas, and religious sites in a continued escalation of settler violence under full military protection.

In the northern West Bank, colonizers attacked Palestinian homes in the Al‑Mas’udiyya area northwest of Nablus, firing live rounds toward residential houses.

Local residents said families were forced to shelter indoors as gunfire struck near their homes, though no injuries were reported.

South of Nablus, in the village of Madama, colonizers from an outpost built on village land invaded the area and cut several electricity poles, disrupting power to parts of the community.

Residents reported that the same colonizer groups have been repeatedly stealing water from the village and carrying out ongoing assaults on farmers and their property.

In Yasid town, northeast of Nablus, Israeli colonizers assaulted and injured a Palestinian father, Samer Samara, and his son, after many colonizers invaded their community.

Furthermore, a group of colonizers hurled stones at a Palestinian car near the illegal colony of Yitzhar, south of Nablus, causing the vehicle to crash and injuring a Palestinian woman, who was then rushed to a hospital in Nablus City.

In the central West Bank, colonizer gangs stole construction materials belonging to Palestinian residents from the agricultural plain of Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah.

Farmers said the thefts are part of a broader pattern of intimidation aimed at restricting Palestinian access to farmland.

In occupied Jerusalem, dozens of colonizers stormed the courtyards of the Al‑Aqsa Mosque compound under heavy police protection.

According to the Jerusalem Governorate, the groups were accompanied by Tzvika Fogel, head of the Knesset’s National Security Committee, and entered through the Moroccan Gate before performing rituals inside the compound.

The incursion came amid heightened tensions and repeated attempts by colonizer groups to impose new facts on the ground at the holy site.

In Hebron in the southern West Bank, the colonizers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, marched through several parts of the city, including the Old City, after the soldiers closed many roads and neighborhoods, and conducted provocative acts before holding a mass celebration.

These incidents form part of a wider surge in colonizer violence across the occupied West Bank, where attacks on Palestinian communities, farmland, livestock, and infrastructure have intensified alongside ongoing military invasions and home demolitions.

First Published on May 20, 2026, at 21:13

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