Ramallah, March 13, 2026: The Minister and Head of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, Mua’yyad Sha’ban, stated that colonizers carried out a total of 192 attacks over the past two weeks, during the prevailing war and regional tensions. He added that colonizers' exploitation of this turbulent climate to intensify their attacks on Palestinian villages and communities has taken on a more organized and expansive character, including direct gunfire at citizens, burning of homes and properties, and imposing new facts on the ground. He noted that these attacks have become part of a broader dynamic aimed at exploiting the moment of regional and international preoccupation to accelerate the geographic and demographic transformation of the West Bank at the expense of the Palestinian presence.
Mr. Sha’ban indicated that the attacks were concentrated in the following governorates: Hebron with 47 attacks, Tubas with 42, Nablus with 35, Bethlehem with 14, Jerusalem with 12, and others in Salfit, Jericho, and Qalqilya.
In a special report issued by the Commission, Mr. Sha’ban stated that the past two weeks witnessed bloody terrorist attacks that resulted in the martyrdom of 6 citizens at the hands of terrorist colonizers:
- March 2, 2026: A group of colonizers stormed the southern area of Qaryut village in Nablus governorate and opened fire on Palestinian citizens, resulting in the martyrdom of brothers Muhammad Ma'mar (52) and his brother Fahim (48), in addition to injuring three other citizens.
- March 7, 2026: A group of colonizers opened fire on Palestinian shepherds while grazing their sheep in the Wadi al-Rakhim area in Masafer Yatta, Hebron governorate, resulting in the martyrdom of Amir Shnaran (27) and the injury of his brother Khalid.
- March 8, 2026: A group of colonizers, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, attacked the village of Khirbet Abu Falah in Ramallah and al-Bireh governorate and opened fire on Palestinian citizens. The occupation forces intervened with live fire, rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs, and tear gas, resulting in the martyrdom of three Palestinians: Thaer Hamayel (24), Fare' Hamayel (57), and Muhammad Murra (55), who died as a result of tear gas inhalation causing cardiac arrest before reaching the hospital. Four other citizens were also injured: Muath al-Khatib, Jihad Murra, Zaid Hamayel, and Fadi Nazzal.
Mr. Sha’ban added that this wave of attacks led to the forcible displacement of 4 Bedouin communities over the past two weeks, affecting 37 families comprising 191 people, including 65 women and 106 children, as follows:
- March 8: Colonizers forcibly displaced the Yarza community in the northern Jordan Valley — 11 families, 69 people (21 women, 40 children).
- March 7: Colonizers forcibly displaced Eastern Aqaba in the Jordan Valley — 9 families, 38 people (14 women, 16 children).
- March 6: Colonizers forcibly displaced Khirbet Shikara near Duma village in Nablus — 13 families, 59 people (19 women, 35 children).
- March 5: Colonizers forcibly displaced Arab al-Zawawra in Nablus — 4 families, 25 people (11 women, 15 children).
Mr. Shaaban noted that colonizers attempted over the past two weeks to establish 8 new colonial outposts, in a series of facts-on-the-ground measures that the official establishment converts into permanent realities, reflecting a functional exchange between the occupation government and colonizer militias:
- March 10 in Itweil al-Sheikh, Masafer Yatta, Hebron Governorate, colonizers erected tents and pens and brought a flock of sheep.
- March 11 in Beit Iksa, Jerusalem, 40 colonizers established an outpost accompanied by four trucks and a bulldozer, beginning land leveling and erecting structures.
- March 9 in Abu Falah, Ramallah Governorate, colonizers erected a new colonial tent on village lands, meters from the site of the attack that martyred 3 people.
- March 11 in Turmus’ayya in the Ramallah Governorate, colonizers rebuilt a tent after the occupation army had removed it the previous day.
- March 8 in Yasuf, Salfit, colonizers placed a mobile home in the Wadi Yasuf area after paving a colonial road that seized dozens of dunams of citizens' land.
- March 8 in Qaryut, south of Nablus, colonizers rebuilt an outpost, bulldozed land, uprooted trees, and erected tents.
- March 10 in Al-Lubban al-Sharqiya in the Nablus Governorate, colonizers stormed the area opposite Al-Zaytounah University, erected a tent, and roamed surrounding lands in "tractron" vehicles.
- March 11 in Mount Ebal, north of Nablus, colonizers established a new colonial site on Mount Ebal with the participation of the Samaria Regional Council and the "Amana" colonization movement.
Mr. Sha’ban added that colonizers carried out 46 acts of vandalism targeting property, crops, and land, as well as 3 attacks on religious sites, including an attempted arson of the Muhammad Fayyad Mosque in Duma, south of Nablus, and an attack on the Majdal Bani Fadel Mosque, in addition to continued storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque and denying Palestinian citizens access to it.
Mr. Sha’ban noted that occupation authorities, during the same period, granted official approval for a road and infrastructure route on lands belonging to Beit Ummar, northwest of Hebron, bypassing standard planning procedures, as part of preparations for a new colony called "Ir Al-Keren" — announced by the occupation cabinet — which will create geographic contiguity between the Karmi Tzur and Migdal Oz colonies at the expense of Palestinian land.
During the same period, occupation authorities issued 12 land seizure orders for military and security purposes, confiscating 230 dunums across the governorates of Ramallah, Jenin, Jerusalem, Jericho, Tubas, Nablus, and Salfit, for the construction of military roads, positions, and buffer zones. The largest was military order No. T/3/26, which seized 128 dunums from the town of Arraba in Jenin governorate for the construction of a military position.
Additionally, the occupation authorities issued 13 military orders under the pretext of "security measures," requiring tree clearing across 863 dunums in the governorates of Ramallah (7 orders), and one each for Nablus, Tulkarm, Jenin, Bethlehem, and Salfit. The largest targeted 380 dunums in the villages of Silwad, Atara, and Ein Sinya north of Ramallah, alongside orders targeting Ramin in Tulkarm and Huwwara in Nablus.
Mr. Sha’ban affirmed that all of these developments reflect a serious and systematic escalation in colonizer attacks and occupation-enabling policies, noting that what is happening is part of an organized policy aimed at imposing new facts on the ground and deepening control over Palestinian land under the cover of media preoccupation with the war and regional tensions. He added that the accelerating attacks, forced displacements, and colonial facts, alongside military decisions to seize land and build roads, constitute a dangerous component of an expansionist project aimed at altering the geographic and demographic reality of the West Bank and undermining prospects for stability. Mr. Sha’ban called on the international community and human rights and humanitarian institutions to fulfill their legal and moral responsibilities to halt these violations and provide protection for the Palestinian people, their land, and their holy sites.
The Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission had previously issued a press release on February 28, 2026, warning of colonizers exploiting war conditions and calling on the Palestinian people to exercise heightened vigilance amid escalating colonizers crimes during the period of regional tension and international distraction linked to recent military developments and the war on Iran, warning of the danger of the occupation state, particularly terrorist colonizer militias, exploiting this political and media climate to carry out systematic terrorist operations against Palestinian citizens in villages and Bedouin communities.
Note: Information regarding the martyrs of Qaryut was updated at 11:12 PM on the date of publication.