Israeli occupiers attack Palestinian town in West Bank under army protection

Israeli occupiers attacked the Palestinian town of Atara in the occupied West Bank on Thursday under the protection of the Israeli army, local sources said. Dozens of occupiers attacked several Palestinian homes in Atara and assaulted their residents, leaving several people injured, while also smashing vehicles, the sources told Anadolu. Clashes broke out between residents and occupiers, prompting the Israeli army to enter the town and fire tear gas canisters, stun grenades and live ammunition to protect the occupiers, they added.

Anadolu’s correspondent reported that occupiers also attacked main roads near Ramallah, prompting the Israeli army to close the entrances to the city and causing thousands of vehicles to back up on the roads. In a separate incident, Israeli occupiers poisoned 13 sheep belonging to a Palestinian, Suleiman Mleihat, west of al-Auja town in Jericho, in the eastern occupied West Bank. Suleiman Mleihat told Anadolu that occupiers sprayed toxic substances in the area where his sheep were kept, killing 13 animals and poisoning others.

Mleihat had previously been forced to leave the Arab al-Mleihat community west of Jericho after its residents were forcibly displaced in July 2025 due to restrictions and repeated threats by occupiers. Around 750,000 occupiers live in 156 settlements and 360 outposts across the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, and carry out attacks aimed at forcibly displacing Palestinians. The occupied West Bank has seen an escalation in Israeli army raids and occupier violence, including killings, arrests, home demolitions, land leveling and seizures, alongside the expansion of Israeli settlements.