On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers demolished a Palestinian home in the Al-Isawiya town, northeast of Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said several military vehicles invaded the town and surrounded a neighborhood where the home is located.
The state that the soldiers forced the family out of their home and demolished it.
Resident Mahran Darwish and his family of five, including children, lived in the demolished home.
The Israeli army said the property was built without a permit from the City Council in Jerusalem, the same council that denied construction applications for the Palestinians and continues to license the construction and expansion of the illegal, segregated Israeli colonies.
While Israel continues to build and expand its illegal colonies, Palestinian communities and towns in occupied Jerusalem and various areas in the occupied West Bank continue to be denied the right to build homes and property under various allegations meant to prevent the expansion of Palestinian towns and neighborhoods.
All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory.”
